It's an up-and-down day for favorites and the husband-and-wife duo of Gaël Monfils and Elina Svitolina wo their singles matches.
The final match of the day saw American Learner Tien, playing in his first major outside of the U.S. Open, upset No. 5 seed Daniil Medvedev in a five-set classic, 6-3, 7-6, 6-7, 1-6, 7-6, that ended at 2:54 a.m. local time. Medvedev had reached three of the past four Australian Open finals, but could not fend off a ferocious Tien.
Coco Gauff led the United States to its second United Cup title with a statement 6-4, 6-4 win over world No. 2 Iga Świątek a week before the start of the Australian Open.
In Saturday's Australian Open 3rd round women's singles match, the Pole crushed her rival in an almost flawless fashion - losing just one game and confidently advancing to the fourth round of the Grand Slam tournament.
At On, the soon-to-be 18-year-old joins an impressive line-up of big names like Iga Świątek, Ben Shelton, and Flavio Cobolli and rising stars Joao Fonseca (BRA), Julia Stusek (GER), Reda Bennani (MAR) and Yeri Hong (KOR).
If the ATP Tour has Rafael Nadal, the WTA has Iga Natalia Świątek. A swashbuckling talent who has what it takes to be placed alongside the all-time greats, the Polish starlet finished the 2023 ...
Poland’s Iga Świątek has entered the third round of the women’s singles competition at the Australian Open Grand Slam tennis tournament in Melbourne.
Given everything she has already achieved in her fledgling career – and the weight of expectation she has borne as one of tennis’ rising superstars – it’s sometimes easy to forget that Coco Gauff is still only 20 years old.
World No.2 Iga Świątek draws boos from the Melbourne Park crowd after claiming Sydney has the better coffee shops.
It was a year of frequent coaching changes for Raducanu. Having won the U.S. Open with Andrew Richardson, she replaced him with Torben Beltz just two months after winning the title. By April 2022, Beltz was out and Dimitry Tursunov, who had worked with Annett Kontaveit while she reached No. 2 in the world, was in.
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