MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Milos Raonic dedicated his third-round win over Viktor Troicki at the Australian Open on Saturday to victims of the school shooting that rocked the remote Canadian town of La Loche. Four people were killed and several injured in the shooting on Friday in Canada’s worst school violence in years. “Today before I […]
By Greg Stutchbury MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Third seed Garbine Muguruza was left searching for her game as Czech Barbora Strycova outwitted her to record a 6-3 6-2 upset victory in the third round of the Australian Open on Saturday. The 22-year-old Spaniard had been considered one of the contenders for the title but looked lethargic […]
By Nick Mulvenney MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams reached the fourth round of the Australian Open without having lost a set between them on Friday as the grand slam establishment held firm on day five of the championships. Tougher challenges will undoubtedly come but the untroubled progress of the two reigning champions […]
By Greg Stutchbury MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Novak Djokovic has been eager to quell expectations that he is hurtling towards a record-equalling sixth Australian Open title but a clinical performance against Andreas Seppi on Friday proved that he is still the man to beat. The world number one, who is bidding to tie Roy Emerson on […]
REUTERS – World number two Andy Murray, four-times a losing finalist, will continue his pursuit for a first Australian Open title against Joao Sousa in the third round on Saturday. Sousa, who has won only one set against Murray in six attempts, will hope to break his horrible record of having lost his last 16 […]
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Serena Williams sent a warning to the rest of the field that she was still working towards her A-game as she charged into the Australian Open fourth round with a 6-1 6-1 demolition of Russian teenager Daria Kasatkina on Friday. Playing a record 80th main draw match at Melbourne Park against an […]
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 […]
