3:03 AM ET Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia — Rafael Nadal stayed on track for a record-breaking 21st Grand Slam singles title with a topsy-turvy 6-3, 6-4, 4-6, 3-6, 6-3 win over Denis Shapovalov in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open on Tuesday at Melbourne Park. Nadal had several medical timeouts in the four-hour match, appearing
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6:36 AM ET Australian Open chief Craig Tiley said the Novak Djokovic saga will not define the 2022 tournament but that he regrets how the volatile situation took the focus off the Grand Slam and players leading up to the Melbourne Park major. Djokovic, 34, was deported from Australia after an 11-day rollercoaster involving two
10:58 PM ET ESPN News Services MELBOURNE, Australia — Madison Keys is the first player into the semifinals at Melbourne Park after defeating French Open champion Barbora Krejcikova 6-3, 6-2. Krejcikova took a medical timeout while trailing 5-2 in the first set from what might have been heat stress as temperatures topped 86 degrees. She
9:00 AM ET Stefanos Tsitsipas booked his place in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open after a roller-coaster win over American Taylor Fritz. The world’s No. 4 player eventually won 4-6, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 in a match in which he was hit with serve and coaching violations, and he had a won a set
1:47 AM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com Competing in her 63rd major main draw appearance, Alize Cornet finally advanced to the first quarterfinals of her career with a 6-4, 3-6, victory over former world No. 1 Simona Halep on Monday at the Australian Open. Cornet’s streak marks the most majors played before reaching a quarterfinal in the
10:30 PM ET ESPN News Services MELBOURNE, Australia — Danielle Collins took advantage of Elise Mertens‘ double fault on match point to advance to the quarterfinals and join two other Americans in the final eight at Melbourne Park. Collins advanced 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 and will play the winner of the following match on Rod Laver
1:00 PM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — Shooter McGavin never liked Happy Gilmore. “He’s a disgrace to the game,” he once argued. “The man is destroying golf. Kick him off the tour.” Gilmore, the flamboyant, failed hockey player turned unorthodox golf pro, a fictional character wonderfully portrayed by Adam Sandler in the 1996 film, was a
1:30 AM ET Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia — After fending off four set points and being unable to convert the first six of his own, Rafael Nadal finally clinched a 28-minute and 40-second tiebreaker to get himself on course to secure a spot in the Australian Open quarterfinals for the 14th time. And now, after
9:47 PM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — Fans at the Australian Open were asked by security to remove T-shirts featuring the slogan “Where is Peng Shuai?” which references the ongoing uncertainty surrounding the Chinese former tennis player’s well-being and whereabouts. In November, Peng, the former world No. 14 singles player and part of a No. 1
3:16 PM ET Taylor Fritz looked bewildered for a second as the Australian Open umpire read out Fritz’s winning third-round score. After his two blink-and-you’ll-miss-them forehand winners, and a double fault from opponent Roberto Bautista Agut, Fritz had conquered his own double nemesis: He’d finally reached a fourth round at a Grand Slam, and he’d
5:14 AM ET Alex De Minaur has reached the Australian Open’s round of 16 for the first time, the local hope winning his ninth straight set at Melbourne Park as he pushed aside Pablo Andujar. The 32nd seed beat the Spanish veteran and regular hitting partner Andujar 6-4, 6-4, 6-2 in another commanding display as
12:14 AM ET Maddison Inglis‘s breakout Australian Open campaign is over following a tough third-round loss to three-time quarterfinalist Kaia Kanepi. The local wildcard took the opening set on Rod Laver Arena before succumbing 2-6, 6-2, 6-0 to the Estonian veteran in sweltering heat on Saturday. Despite her departure, Inglis will pocket a career-saving cheque
8:25 AM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com Standing on the court as her ever-so-slight lead slipped away and now just one point away from entering a third-set tiebreak, Naomi Osaka prepared for Amanda Anisimova‘s next serve during their third-round match at the Australian Open on Friday. Osaka, the tournament’s defending champ, had looked frustrated as she walked
5:49 AM ET Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia — Defending champion Naomi Osaka didn’t make it to a much-anticipated fourth-round contest against top-ranked Ashleigh Barty at the Australian Open. Amanda Anisimova, a 20-year-old American ranked 60th in the world, ensured that so-called final-before-the-final wouldn’t happen when she beat the four-time major champion 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5)
9:54 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com American Jessica Pegula advanced to the fourth round of the Australian Open for the second consecutive year with a 7-6 (3), 6-2 victory over Nuria Parrizas Diaz on Thursday. The tournament’s No. 21 seed recorded seven aces and 20 winners in the 91-minute clash. She’ll next face the winner of
10:23 AM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com There were no Americans in the quarterfinals of the singles draw at the US Open in September. No men. No women. No one. It was the first time in over a century of tournament history there had been such an absence, and it was the latest blow for the once-dominant
7:12 AM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — On paper, a second-round Grand Slam match featuring the highest-ranked player in the tournament and a man languishing outside the top 100 wouldn’t be one to stir even the slightest amount of interest or excitement in the average tennis fan. But when that lowly ranked player is the flamboyant
10:59 PM ET Samantha Stosur‘s decorated singles career is over after a second-round defeat in her farewell Australian Open at Melbourne Park. The 2011 US Open champion bowed out with a 6-2 6-2 loss to Russian 10th seed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova on Thursday. Stosur received a standing ovation from the Kia Arena crowd before departing after