6:34 AM ET Andy Murray has praised U.S. Open champion Naomi Osaka and Manchester United‘s Marcus Rashford for their work in driving social change. Murray spoke in his BBC column on the importance of athletes speaking out and driving change. “In tennis, we saw Naomi Osaka decide she would not play in her Western and

8:00 AM ET Men’s tennis’s governing body has announced the Australian Open will start on February 8, three weeks later than planned. While Tennis Australia and the Victorian and Australian governments are yet to confirm, the ATP on Thursday revealed its revised 2021 calendar with the Melbourne Park grand slam front and centre of pandemic-forced

7:53 PM ET Associated Press LONDON — The Australian Open is set to begin Feb. 8, three weeks later than planned, as part of a pandemic-altered 2021 tennis calendar released by the men’s professional tour Wednesday. The ATP said that men’s qualifying for the season’s first Grand Slam tournament is being moved to Doha, Qatar,

7:35 AM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com Leylah Fernandez was already feeling slightly out of place on the tennis practice courts at the Australian Open days before the tournament was set to begin this past January. At 17, just a year removed from playing in the girls’ final and ranked No. 207 in the world, Fernandez had

12:40 AM ET Since August this year, Ankita Raina has travelled to six countries, 10 tournaments and undergone at least 40 Covid-19 tests. She has also earned her rewards – winning five ITF titles this season, three of them in doubles. The latest one came in Dubai last weekend. In fact, she didn’t have a

12:30 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com Roger Federer cast doubt on his immediate return to tennis during an awards ceremony Sunday where he was being honored as Switzerland’s greatest athlete of the past 70 years. The 20-time major champion, who has been sidelined since February with a right knee injury, had previously targeted the 2021 Australian

9:20 AM ET Leander Paes said on Friday that he wants to make a record eighth straight Olympic appearance, and is preparing hard to participate in next year’s Tokyo Games. On December 25, 2019, Paes had announced his ‘One Last Roar’ tagline, saying 2020 would be his last season as a professional player, culminating with

3:29 PM ET Associated Press SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Alex Olmedo, who won the Wimbledon and Australian Championships singles titles in 1959 and was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1987, has died. He was 84. Citing Olmedo’s son, Alejandro Jr., the Hall of Fame said Thursday that Olmedo died of brain

7:52 AM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com After a year like no other, we’ve made it to the tennis offseason. With the coronavirus pandemic shutting down the ATP and WTA tours for months — including the cancellation of Wimbledon — and dramatically altering the schedule and conditions at the events that did take place, it is hard

2:55 PM ET Associated Press Sofia Kenin collected the WTA Player of the Year award on Tuesday after winning the Australian Open in January for her first Grand Slam title and finishing as the runner-up at the French Open in October. The 22-year-old from Florida went 16-2 at the three major tournaments played in 2020