Tennis

LONDON (AP) — Tunisian player Anis Ghorbel was banned from tennis for three years on Friday for corruption.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — With 100 matches at the Australian Open and a record 24 titles across the four majors, Novak Djokovic is well placed to judge how he's progressing at a Grand Slam.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Defending champion Aryna Sabalenka and U.S. Open winner Coco Gauff swept to commanding wins at the Australian Open on Friday to reach the fourth round.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A Ukrainian player refusing to shake the hand of a Russian or Belarusian at the net has become a common sight on the tennis tours over the past two years.

A smile creased Daniil Medvedev's face as he walked to the net in Rod Laver Arena at 3:39 a.m. , finally a winner in the Australian Open's second round after five sets spread across nearly 4 1/2 hours in the third-latest finish in Grand Slam history.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — If he wasn't on the court competing, Daniil Medvedev doubted anything would have kept him at Rod Laver Arena until almost 4 in the morning.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Her hand and her legs were shaking, she’d missed nine match points but also saved six, and Anna Blinkova was 41 points into a wild tiebreaker that was the longest ever in a women’s Grand Slam event.

MELBOURNE, Australia — Montreal's Felix Auger-Aliassime defeated Hugo Grenier of France 6-1, 3-6, 6-1, 6-2 on Thursday to advance to the third round of the Australian Open.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — With her own kind of perpetual motion, Danielle Collins transitioned swiftly from an Australian Open loss against the world's top-ranked player to announcing this would be her last season on the professional tennis tour.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Jennifer Brady , who reached her first Grand Slam singles final at the Australian Open in 2021, is expected to be out of action for another extended period while she recovers from further surgery on her right knee.