Category: Tennis

Boris Becker believes Maria Sharapova has paid her dues and deserves a second chance when she returns to tennis in April at the end of her 15-month doping ban. Sharapova, a five-time Grand Slam champion, failed a dope test for the drug meldonium at the 2016 Australian Open and was suspended for two years by the International Tennis Federation (ITF). […]

Second seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France needed only 45 minutes to reach the quarterfinals of the Open de Sud de France, swatting aside countryman Pierre-Hugues Herbert 6-1, 6-2 on Thursday. Tsonga, a former Australian Open finalist, is ranked 14 but doubles expert Herbert is ranked only 96 in singles. It proved to be a total mismatch as Tsonga hit seven […]

Roger Federer defeated Rafael Nadal in a classic five-set battle to win his fifth Australian Open men’s singles crown and record breaking 18th Grand Slam title at the Rod Laver Arena on Sunday evening. Seventeenth seed Federer, a former World No.1, won the final 6-4, 3-6, 6-1, 3-6, 6-3 in three hours and 38 minutes at Melbourne Park. Congratulations to […]

Henri Kontinen and John Peers have captured the Australian Open men’s doubles title on Saturday. The fourth-seeded duo defeated Bob and Mike Bryan on their way to winning the event 7-5 7-5. It took an hour and 14 minutes for the match to be concluded.

Serena Williams defeated her sister Venus Williams to clinch her seventh Australian Open title. She now holds 23 Grand Slam titles. Venus, who was looking to win her eighth Grand Slam title, fell in straight sets 6-4, 6-4.

American Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Czech Lucie Safarova enhanced their reputation as the dominant duo in women’s doubles by winning the Australian Open title for the second time. The second-seeded pair had to scramble from behind to eventually overwhelm Czech Andrea Hlavackova and China’s Peng Shuai 6-7 (3), 6-3, 6-3 in a tense final. It extended the pair’s unbeaten record to […]