MELBOURNE (Reuters) – The Australian Open continued to be an unhappy hunting ground for Marin Cilic on Friday as the former U.S. Open champion perished in the third round in a 6-4 7-6(5) 7-5 defeat by Roberto Bautista Agut. The Croatian 12th seed fired down 15 aces and belted 46 winners but that was not […]
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – A patient Roger Federer weathered a second set storm from Grigor Dimitrov before slapping down the Bulgarian 6-4 3-6 6-1 6-4 to reach the fourth round of the Australian Open and clinch his 300th win in grand slams. The four-times champion wobbled briefly in the inter-generational battle when the 24-year-old nicknamed ‘Baby […]
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – When Grigor Dimitrov ended Andy Murray’s reign as Wimbledon champion with a no-nonsense quarter-final defeat at the All England Club in 2014, it supposedly heralded the arrival of the “generation next” in men’s tennis. Not quite. The Bulgarian, who showed his all-court versatility in 2014 by winning titles on three different surfaces […]
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Roberta Vinci’s third round loss at the Australian Open to unheralded German Anna-Lena Friedsam on Friday was simply a reflection of a bad day at the office, the Italian veteran said. A good day for the 32-year-old could be benchmarked against her victory over world number one Serena Williams in the U.S. […]
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Agnieszka Radwanska, playing through the pain of a leg injury, rode an opening set onslaught to take a place in the last 16 of the Australian Open with a 6-4 6-0 victory over Monica Puig on Friday. The fourth seed was forced to pull out of the Sydney warm-up because of her […]
By Ian Ransom MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Andre Agassi did not think much of the 16-year-old Lleyton Hewitt when he marched out for their first match on a broiling hot day in South Australia in 1998. A short and skinny kid with straggly hair spilling out of a backward-facing baseball cap, Hewitt looked more like an […]
By Greg Stutchbury MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Lleyton Hewitt said he was proud of his contribution in taking down the tennis giants on Thursday after his 20th and final appearance in the Australian Open singles came to a close. The Australian, whose 18-year career will officially end once he is knocked out of the men’s doubles […]
By Ian Ransom MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Lleyton Hewitt bade an emotional farewell under the Australian Open floodlights on Thursday as David Ferrer snuffed out any chance of fairytale final flourish from the local hero. After world number two Andy Murray had trampled on home sensibilities by mauling Australian Sam Groth to reach the third round, […]
