10:23 AM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com There were no Americans in the quarterfinals of the singles draw at the US Open in September. No men. No women. No one. It was the first time in over a century of tournament history there had been such an absence, and it was the latest blow for the once-dominant
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7:12 AM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — On paper, a second-round Grand Slam match featuring the highest-ranked player in the tournament and a man languishing outside the top 100 wouldn’t be one to stir even the slightest amount of interest or excitement in the average tennis fan. But when that lowly ranked player is the flamboyant
9:25 PM ET Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia — No. 3 Garbine Muguruza became the highest-seeded player to lose a match at this year’s Australian Open, getting bounced in the second round by Alize Cornet 6-3, 6-3 on Thursday. Muguruza is a two-time Grand Slam champion and was the runner-up at Melbourne Park in 2020, but
6:59 PM ET The Australian Open is the first tennis major of 2022, and it won’t have some of the game’s biggest names participating. Many stars have withdrawn from the event because of injuries. Serena Williams, Roger Federer, Bianca Andreescu and Jennifer Brady are just a few noteworthy players who won’t compete. However, the biggest
7:53 AM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com Few expected Sofia Kenin to win the 2020 Australian Open. She was the No. 14 seed and had never advanced past the fourth round at a major. The then-21-year-old American was barely on the radar. But point by point and match by match, Kenin stormed through the draw, setting up
12:51 AM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com Victoria Azarenka, a two-time Australian Open champion and a member of the WTA Players’ Council, voiced her support for a vaccine requirement on tour Wednesday, becoming one of the first players in a leadership position to do so. Following her 6-1, 6-2 second-round win Wednesday over Jil Teichmann, No. 24
4:59 PM ET British qualifier Liam Broady has admitted he struggled to cope with the level of verbal abuse hurled at him by the crowd during his first-round Australian Open defeat to Nick Kyrgios. Broady was jeered as he walked out to play on Kyrgios’ favourite court at John Cain Arena, where the Canberran showman
7:59 AM ET Emma Raducanu got her Australian Open campaign off to a winning start as she saw off Sloane Stephens in three sets in the first round. US Open champion Raducanu ended up winning 6-0, 2-6, 6-1 in an entertaining match on day two of the first Grand Slam of the year. After Raducanu
1:51 AM ET ESPN News Services MELBOURNE, Australia — The Australian Open started well for second-seeded Daniil Medvedev, one of the biggest potential beneficiaries of Novak Djokovic‘s deportation. Aiming to be the first man in the Open era to win his second major title on his next Grand Slam appearance, Medvedev had a 6-1, 6-4,
2:44 PM ET Perhaps for the first time in her career, the eyes of the world are set to descend upon local wildcard Storm Sanders as she takes the court at the Australian Open for the first time since 2016 come Tuesday. Well … to be more accurate, they’ll be on her opponent, Aryna Sabalenka,