Having defeated Donna Vekic of Croatia (7-5, 6-3), Iga Swiatek of Poland advanced to the fourth round of the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on Saturday. For the second time in her career, the 18-year-old Pole will play eighth finals in a Gram Slam tournament (Australian Open, French Open, US Open, and Wimbledon). Last year she reached this stage in French Open.more
Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic defeated the Japanese Yoshihito Nishioka 6: 3, 6: 2, 6: 2 in the 3rd round of the Australian Open. Runner-up in the world ranking - fighting for the eighth, record triumph in Melbourne - for the 50th time will play in the 1/8 Grand Slam final.more
Iga ¦wi±tek defeated the Spanish tennis player Carla Suarez Navarro 6: 3, 7: 5 and for the first time in her career advanced to the third round of the Australian Open. more
Iga ¦wi±tek advanced to the second round of the Australian Open, beating Hungarian Timea Babos 6: 3, 6: 2. The next rival of the Polish tennis player in the Grand Slam tournament on hard courts in Melbourne will be the Spaniard Carla Suarez Navarro.more
Rafael Nadal hit the ground running at the Australian Open on Tuesday by hammering unseeded Bolivian Hugo Dellien 6-2 6-3 6-0 to reach the second round.more
Dennis Novak was eliminated in the first round of the Australian Open despite a particularly impressive performance at the start. The Austrian lost to Hubert Hurkacz with 7: 6 (4), 6: 1, 2: 6, 3: 6 and 4: 6.more
All Polish tennis players participating in the single at the Grand Slam Australian Open - Hubert Hurkacz, Magda Linette and Iga ¦wi±tek - will start their performance tomorrow. The first two were supposed to do this the day before, but their matches were postponed due to rain.more
Roger Federer showed no sign of rust despite a lack of match practice ahead of the Australian Open as he launched his bid for a record-extending 21st Grand Slam title by hammering Steve Johnson 6-3 6-2 6-2 in the first round on Monday.more
Magdalena Frech, Maja Chwalinska and Urszula Radwanska lost their matches of the 1st round of the Grand Slam Australian Open qualification. Two days earlier, the same fate met the fourth of Polish tennis players fighting for the main ladder - Katarzyna Coffee.more
Some matches of the 1st round of the Grand Slam Australian Open qualification were interrupted, and then most of the matches scheduled for today were postponed to the next day. First, tennis players felt the air pollution, then heavy rain.more
A tennis player was forced to retire from Australian Open qualifying in Melbourne after collapsing with a coughing fit caused by bushfire smoke. Slovenia's Dalila Jakupovic was leading 6-4 5-6 against Switzerland's Stefanie Vogele, but was unable to finish her service game at the end of the second set.more
Magda Linette is still 43rd, while Iga ¦wi±tek was promoted from 59th to 56th in the WTA tennis ranking. Australian Ashleigh Barty is leading, before Czech Republic Carolina Pliskova and Japanese Naomi Osaka, who moved from fourth to third place.more
Hubert Hurkacz admitted that his performance in the ATP Cup was a fantastic start to the season for him. The tennis player also told, among others about the preparatory period, meditation and playing together with the doublist £ukasz Kubot, with whom he began acquaintance with ... passing him tennis balls.more
Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, Serena Williams and Nick Kyrgios are all set to play in an Australian Open Rally for Relief next week. Australia has been hit by devastating bushfires across the country in recent months.more
Maria Sharapova says the women's Brisbane International feels like a "second-hand" event because the men's ATP Cup has taken over centre court. The WTA event is taking place at the Queensland Tennis Centre - the same venue as the Brisbane round-robin stage of the inaugural men's team event.more
After a break of almost two months, Kamil Majchrzak returned to the top "100" ATP rankings - the 23-year-old tennis player advanced by four positions and is 97. Hubert Hurkacz retained 37th place, and the leader remained Spaniard Rafael Nadal.more
Former World No. 2 Vera Zvonareva will miss the Australian Open - the first Grand Slam of the 2020 season - due to problems with her left wrist. The 35 year old Russian has been a semi-finalist at the Australian Open on two occasions in her career - in 2009 and 2011more
British tennis player Andy Murray, three times Grand Slam winner, will not play in the first in 2020 tournament of this rank in Melbourne. Pelvic problems ruled him out of the Australian Open.more
American gymnast Simone Biles and Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal won a plebiscite of the French newspaper "L'Equipe" for the sports "Champion of Champions 2019" (Champion des champions). Biles was honored in this way for the second year in a row.more
The world's best players will compete for a record $71 million prize money at Australian Open 2020, an increase of 13.6 percent on the record purse in 2019.more
Caroline Wozniacki will end her tennis career next month. The 29-year-old Danish star said she would leave the sport after the Australian Open, which begins Jan. 20.more
Tennis great Roger Federer is to become the first living Swiss to have a coin minted in their honour, with a commemorative 20 franc (£16) silver piece bearing his image being issued in January. The 38-year-old 20-time Grand Slam champion is regarded by many as the greatest tennis player ever and is a national hero in Switzerland.more
Spaniard Rafael Nadal earned in tournaments over $ 16.3 million in 2019. Among the women at the head of the financial statement is Australian Ashleigh Barty, who increased her assets by $ 11.3 million. more
