11:13 PM ET Ankita Raina, on Sunday, made the cut for the women’s doubles event of the upcoming Australian Open. With this, she became only the fifth Indian woman to secure a place in the main draw of a Grand Slam. The Australian Open starts in Melbourne on Monday. 1 Related After missing out on

9:32 PM ET Ashleigh Barty has completed the perfect preparation for her Australian Open campaign, fighting past the in-form Garbine Muguruza to claim the Yarra Valley Classic in straight sets. Muguruza had dropped just 10 games across four straight-sets victories leading into the final, but failed to go the distance with Barty, who won 7-6

1:50 PM ET Ahead of the Australian Open starting Sunday, Serena Williams showed off her new Miami home for Architectural Digest. The 14,500-square foot, Spanish-Mediterranean style home is not far from her parents and her sister, Venus Williams, who helped design the home. Working with V Starr, Venus Williams’ design firm, the two spent five

3:05 AM ET Italian teenager Jannik Sinner saved a match point before battling past Russian Karen Khachanov 7-6(4), 4-6, 7-6(4) in a three-hour tussle to reach the final of the Great Ocean Road Open in Melbourne on Saturday. The 19-year-old Sinner looked set for a straightforward win after leading by a set and a break,

10:54 PM ET Associated Press Defending champion Sofia Kenin planned to go out for practice again before the Australian Open and keep treating a leg injury she said was hampering her during a loss to Garbine Muguruza in a tuneup event. Kenin beat Muguruza in the Australian Open final last year to win her first

10:52 AM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com After an eventful three weeks in Melbourne, filled with hard quarantines and some creative uses of hotel rooms, the 2021 Australian Open is almost here. While players continue to comply with the strict coronavirus protocols of the local Victorian government, the tournament could still give us the closest glimpse of

6:17 AM ET Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia — Serena Williams withdrew from an Australian Open tuneup tournament citing a right shoulder injury on Friday within hours of setting up a semifinal match against top-ranked Ash Barty. The 23-time Grand Slam champion usually doesn’t play in a tournament in the week before a Grand Slam event,

11:01 PM ET Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia — Bianca Andreescu pronounced herself healthy Friday and “ready to go” for the Australian Open, which would be her first tournament in 15 months. The 2019 US Open champion had pulled out of one of the half-dozen tuneup tournaments taking place this week at Melbourne Park, where the

2:36 PM ET Associated Press MIAMI — Tony Trabert, a five-time Grand Slam singles champion and former No. 1 player who went on to successful careers as a Davis Cup captain, broadcaster and executive, has died. He was 90. The Tennis Hall of Famer’s death Wednesday night at his home in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida,

5:46 PM ET Nick Kyrgios doesn’t always need tennis, but he says we do. Famed as much for his indifference to the sport that’s made him a living as his freakish ability and questionable on-court antics, Kyrgios offered no easy answers when it came to hosting a tennis tournament amidst a pandemic. But his sense