Tennis

7:44 AM ET Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia — Novak Djokovic’s Australian Open championship returned him to a rather familiar spot on Monday: No. 1 in the ATP rankings. His four-place rise from No. 5 to replace Carlos Alcaraz at No. 1 is the largest jump to the top spot in the 50-year history of the

8:02 AM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — Novak Djokovic is a 10-time Australian Open champion. He has drawn level with Rafael Nadal for the most Grand Slam titles won by a man (22). And he is still the king of Melbourne Park. Djokovic was clinical in defeating No. 3 seed Stefanos Tsitsipas in straight sets Sunday

7:03 AM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — There’s an inevitability about Novak Djokovic playing tennis at Rod Laver Arena. It’s the feeling that regardless of what year we’re in, who stands on the other side of the net and just how lopsided the crowd support might be in favor of his opponent, it’s still Djokovic who

6:43 AM ET Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia — Novak Djokovic found this trip to Australia far less complicated, and far more successful, than that of a year ago. Unable to enter his best event in 2022 after being deported from the country because he was not vaccinated against COVID-19, Djokovic accomplished all he could have

1:21 AM ET Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia — Katerina Siniakova and Barbora Krejcikova have extended their Grand Slam winning streak to 24 matches with a 6-4, 6-3 win over Japan’s Shuko Aoyama and Ena Shibahara to win the Australian Open women’s doubles title on Sunday. It was the seventh Grand Slam doubles title by the

9:11 AM ET Alfie Hewett claimed his first Australian Open men’s wheelchair singles title on Saturday as he beat 16-year-old Tokita Oda 6-3, 6-1. Hewett, 25, also won the men’s wheelchair doubles title on Friday, picking up his 16th major title with partner Gordon Reid. The men’s singles No. 1 found himself 3-1 down to

8:37 AM ET Jason Kubler and Rinky Hijikata have ensured an Australian Open trophy has remained in home hands, storming to a shock straight-sets win in the men’s doubles final. With singles champion Ash Barty retiring and Nick Kyrgios and Thanasi Kokkinakis unable to defend their 2022 doubles crown due to injury, Kubler and Hijikata

7:10 AM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — After Novak Djokovic’s dominant fourth-round Australian Open win over Alex de Minaur, the 21-time Grand Slam champion was asked about the other seven men remaining in the draw. He zeroed in on Stefanos Tsitsipas. “Tsitsipas [is] probably the most experienced guy out of all the quarterfinalists. He has played

6:43 AM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — Sheer aggression and a high-risk, high-reward philosophy helped Aryna Sabalenka clinch an epic Australian Open final over Elena Rybakina. The Belarusian battered and bruised her way to the title at Melbourne Park, coming from a set down to overwhelm last year’s Wimbledon champion 4-6, 6-3, 6-4. Editor’s Picks “We’ve

6:14 AM ET ESPN News Services Aryna Sabalenka’s undefeated run in 2023 has carried her to the Australian Open title with a 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 victory over Elena Rybakina on Saturday. The turning point of the third set at Rod Laver Arena was a back-and-forth seventh game where Sabalenka broke to take a 4-3 lead.

2:54 AM ET Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia — Alexander Blockx of Belgium beat American Learner Tien 6-1, 2-6, 7-6 (9) to win the junior boys championship at the Australian Open on Saturday. “It was one of my hardest battles of my life,” the 17-year-old Blockx said. Editor’s Picks In the junior girls singles final, ninth-seeded

1:03 AM ET Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia — Dutch legend Diede de Groot extended her winning streak to nine consecutive Grand Slam titles when she overcame a slow start to beat Yui Kamiji of Japan 0-6, 6-2, 6-2 in the women’s wheelchair singles final at the Australian Open on Saturday. It was de Groot’s fifth

11:18 AM ET Associated Press WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — Australian Open semifinalist Tommy Paul and the player who eliminated Rafael Nadal at Melbourne Park, Mackenzie McDonald, are among the players picked by interim captain David Nainkin for the U.S. Davis Cup team’s matches at Uzbekistan next week. Nainkin’s appointment was announced Friday, three weeks after

2:03 AM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — Novak Djokovic’s father, Srdjan Djokovic, was not in attendance for his son’s Australian Open semifinal against Tommy Paul, saying in a statement Friday that he does not want to be a “disruption” to the match. Following Novak Djokovic’s quarterfinal win over Russian Andrey Rublev on Wednesday evening, Srdjan Djokovic

Jan 22, 2023 MELBOURNE, Australia — A first-time Australian Open champion will lift the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup on Saturday, regardless of whether it’s Elena Rybakina or Aryna Sabalenka. Editor’s Picks It’s Rybakina’s second final appearance in the past three Slams, and she’s 6-0 in major matches against seeded opponents since the start of Wimbledon

2:37 AM ET Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia — Of all his considerable talents, Novak Djokovic’s ability to cast aside whatever appears to stand in his way might be the most valuable. So forget about the potential distraction of his father’s decision to stay away from Rod Laver Arena for Djokovic’s semifinal against unseeded American Tommy

5:12 AM ET Britain’s Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid captured their 16th major title as they beat the Dutch pairing of Maikel Scheffers and Ruben Spaargaren in straight sets to win the Australian Open wheelchair men’s doubles title on Friday. Hewett and Reid were dominant in their display which saw them clinch their fourth successive

2:12 AM ET Zenia D’cunha “I never thought I’d be able to play in front of my child in a Grand Slam final, so it’s truly special for me.” Sania Mirza’s final Grand Slam match ended with the runner-up plate but this line from her emotional post-match speech signifies the magnitude of her journey, and

2:37 AM ET Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia — Stefanos Tsitsipas had a harder time strictly following all of the rules than he did outplaying his opponent in the early going, then recovered after blowing two match points late in the third set, and eventually reached the final at the Australian Open for the first time