Updates on another busy night of tennis in MelbourneAny thoughts? Email or tweet @JacobSteinberg 8.22am GMT Venus Williams will have to do it the hard way. Alize Cornet levels it up on Margaret Court Arena, winning the second set 6-4. 8.19am GMT Denis…
• The 23-times grand slam doubles winner had surgery in August• Bryan wins on return and says Scot is ‘watching me like a hawk’The American doubles champion Bob Bryan, who is back on a tennis court five months after having a metal implant in his hip, s…
• No 11 seed Sabalenka beats Boulter 6-3, 6-4 in second round• British player’s ‘really big hitting’ impresses Annabel CroftKatie Boulter was lauded for a brave losing debut in the Australian Open, but it was equally obvious that opponents such as the …
Evans delivers best display since comeback, losing 7-6, 7-6, 6-3‘I was in a bad place,’ he says of nine-month drugs suspension A year after he found himself “in a pretty bad place” and contemplating retirement from tennis at 27, Dan Evans can smile aga…
• Follow the night-time action on day three at Melbourne Park• Konta fired up for Muguruza clash as Serena eases through• Kyrgios outplayed by Raonic in straight-sets defeat• Email Jacob or tweet @JacobSteinberg 8.57am GMT Alex de Minaur, who could pla…
Playing numbers dropped during Andy Murray era‘Not much to show for everything he’s put in’The long-standing perception that British tennis wasted Andy Murray’s ascent to the upper reaches of the game over the past decade was given further substance by…
Tomic has always been an outsider and is determinedly so now, with even Nick Kyrgios seemingly no longer in his cornerAustralian sport runs on mateship, like much of society here. So it was no surprise when the wagons circled after Bernard Tomic embarr…
Updates from the match on Rod Laver ArenaAny thoughts? Email or tweet @mike_hytner 4.00am GMT First set: Evans 3-4 Federer* (*denotes server): Much better from Federer this game. A lot more solid hitting from the Swiss as he edges ahead once more, for …
Updates from the match on Rod Laver ArenaAny thoughts? Email or tweet @mike_hytner 4.00am GMT First set: Evans 3-4 Federer* (*denotes server): Much better from Federer this game. A lot more solid hitting from the Swiss as he edges ahead once more, for …
Nick Kyrgios faces the media after Bernard Tomic’s allegations that there is a rift in Tennis Australia between Davis Cup captain Lleyton Hewitt and Kyrgios, Tomic and Thanasi Kokkinakis. Kyrgios is dismissive, saying he hasn’t heard the interview that…
Andy Murray has two choices: to rest and sign off at Wimbledon in five months or, his preferred option, to have an operationThere was a moment of tranquillity after the tumult for Andy Murray as speculation swirled around Melbourne Park about where he …
• No rush to make a decision, says Murray’s mum in Melbourne• ‘Whatever he decides I’ll be right behind him’, she addsAndy Murray’s mother, Judy, thinks he could play tennis again, although she believes he is still agonising over further hip surgery th…
Home hope: ‘He was way too good for me tonight’ 6–4, 7–6, 6–4 defeat is Kyrgios’s earliest Australian Open exitThere have been several times in his career when Nick Kyrgios has been guilty of not giving his best but at the Australian Open yesterday, he…
Andy Murray was shown an emotional tribute video featuring a host of tennis stars following his Australian Open exit.Murray, who plans to retire this year due to chronic hip pain, said he would be content if his five-set defeat to Roberto Bautista…
Updates from the night session on day two at Melbourne ParkAny thoughts? Email or tweet @benfisherj 8.12am GMT Disbelief on Margaret Court, as the umpire calls for hindrance as Buzarnescu buries a winner against Williams at 30-15. Buzarnescu is pulled …
British No 1 beats Ajla Tomljanovic in tie-breakerWilliams deals with Tatjama Maria in 49 minutesJohanna Konta is in the same quarter of the draw as Serena Williams but their respective victories on day two confirmed the British player’s suspicions tha…
Andy Murray’s defeat against Roberto Bautista Agut may have been his last but for a few glorious hours, it was hard to tell that this might be it.Perhaps the only thing Australians enjoy more than a winner is an underdog. And so, on a balmy summer’s ev…
Melbourne’s Greek heritage is well known, making the rising star feel at home at the Australian Open If you were to take a straw poll among tennis afficionados as to who, of the younger generation, might win a grand slam title in the next few years, th…
World No9 loses to another American for first time at majorPlayers trade 87 aces as all four sets go to tiebreaksFor once, John Isner wasn’t the tallest man on the court. On Monday at the Australian Open the 6ft 10in Isner lost to the 7ft Reilly Opelka…
