5:43 AM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — Nick Kyrgios is the latest athlete to pay tribute to the late Kobe Bryant. The Australian tennis star donned Bryant’s famous Los Angeles Lakers No. 8 jersey on his walk out to Rod Laver Arena ahead of his fourth-round Australian Open match against world No. 1 Rafael Nadal on

9:19 PM ET ESPN News Services MELBOURNE, Australia — Wimbledon champion Simona Halep reached the quarterfinals at the Australian Open with a straight-sets win over Elise Mertens on Monday. Halep appeared to be cruising after winning the first set and going up a service break in the second, but Mertens broke back to level the

9:53 AM ET ESPN News Services Fear over the deadly viral outbreak in China has forced the Asian Football Confederation and International Tennis Foundation to move qualifying events to different countries. Sydney will replace Nanjing, China, for the AFC’s Feb. 3-7 Olympic qualifying tournament, which had already been moved from Wuhan, the city at the

10:55 PM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — It’s been 42 years since a homegrown player won an Australian Open singles title. Christine O’Neil was the last to achieve the feat way back in 1978, long before Grand Slam fields expanded to 128 players. Since then, there have been many who have carried the expectations of a

9:16 AM ET Simon Cambers MELBOURNE, Australia — The scuffle that broke out in the crowd before the match began and the long lines of fans trailing back out of Melbourne Arena could mean only one thing. This was the Nick Kyrgios show, and boy, was it good value. And it had everything: a four-hour-plus

7:43 AM ET Russian Daniil Medvedev has ended the Australian Open campaign of Alexei Popyrin with a commanding straight-sets win. Hampered by a hip injury, the young Australian went down to fourth seed Medvedev 6-4 6-3 6-2 in their third round clash on Rod Laver Arena. Despite battling through pain and calling for medical assistance

4:44 AM ET Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia — Joao Olavo Soares de Souza of Brazil has been banned for life and fined $200,000 by the International Tennis Federation after being found guilty of match-fixing and corruption. The Tennis Integrity Unit announced the sanctions Saturday following a hearing earlier this month in London. The 31-year-old Brazilian

1:15 PM ET Associated Press SAO PAULO — The clay-court Rio Open tournament in February will have the first trial of electronic technology for the surface. The Challenger Tour has trialed the technology before on clay, but it has never been seen at ATP level, with umpires often getting out of their chairs to check

1:58 AM ET ESPN News Services Roger Federer‘s championship mettle was tested in the third round as the No. 3 seed survived in five sets against Australian John Millman. Federer, a six-time winner in Melbourne, came back from down 8-4 in the fifth-set tiebreak to win 4-6, 7-6 (2), 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (8). “Oh, God,

2:02 AM ET D’Arcy MaineESPNW Writer MELBOURNE, Australia — Wearing a huge smile and a traditional cloak that made her look like a superhero, Serena Williams stood on the court at Auckland earlier this month holding her daughter, Olympia, with one arm, and her championship trophy in the other. After a three-year title drought, she