MELBOURNE, January 22, 2018 Roger Federer edged past Marton Fucsovics 6-4, 7-6, 6-2 on Rod Laver Arena on Monday afternoon. In 2002, Federer defeated Fucsovics’ coach, Atilla Savolt, in the second round here. Sixteen years and 19 Grand Slam titles […]
WASHINGTON, January 22, 2018 (by Michael Dickens) Madison Keys looks fitter now than she did when she lost 6-3, 6-0 to her friend and fellow American Sloane Stephens last fall in the final of the U.S. Open. In a recent interview with The New […]
WASHINGTON, January 21, 2018 (by Michael Dickens) On Sunday morning, I awoke at 6 a.m. (U.S. Eastern Time) and turned on my living room flatscreen TV to the third set of the Grigor Dimitrov versus Nick Kyrgios R16 clash, arguably the […]
MELBOURNE, January 21, 2018 Marin Cilic, the No. 6 seed recorded his 100th Grand Slam match-win on Sunday when he defeated No. 10 seed Pablo Carreno Busta 6-7, 6-3, 7-6, 7-6 on Margaret Court Arena. The 29-year-old Croat struck 20 […]
WASHINGTON, January 21, 2018 (by Michael Dickens) What a first week it’s been for the 2018 Australian Open down under. Roger Federer has coasted through his first three matches – all under the night skies on Rod Laver Arena – […]
MELBOURNE, January 20, 2018 Two former Top 5 players headlined Saturday evening’s Australian Open action on Hisense Arena, with No. 19 seed Tomas Berdych defeating the tournament’s No. 12 Juan Martin Del Potro 6-3, 6-3, 6-2. Berdych, who fell to […]
MELBOURNE, January 20, 2018 No. 5 seed Dominic Thiem defated Frenchman Adrian Mannarino 6-4, 6-2, 7-5 in the third match on Margaret Court Arena to become just the second Austrian man to reach the round of 16 at the Australian […]
MELBOURNE, January 19, 2018 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Nick Kyrgios contested in the first night match on Rod Laver Arena on Friday. As the only local player left in the Australian Open main draw from the nine who started, home favourite […]
MELBOURNE, January 19, 2018 Elina Svitolina of the Ukraine ended the prodigious run for 15-year-old compatriot Marta Kostyuk in the third round of the Australian Open, winning 6-2, 6-2 on Rod Laver Arena on Friday. The No. 4 seed struck 11 […]
AO Press Release, January 19, 2018 The cool change has arrived at Melbourne Park with the current temperature (at 5:38pm) at Melbourne Park sitting at 28.2 degrees with a Wet Bulb Globe Temperature (WBGT) reading of 26.7. The expected top temperature in Melbourne today was 42 […]
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