Jan 29, 2019 Andy Murray has undergone further hip surgery in a bid to save his tennis career. The former world No. 1 announced he was on the verge of retirement before the start of January’s Australian Open, saying the pain in his right hip has not subsided despite an operation a year earlier. Murray,
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2:24 PM ET Associated Press WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — No. 17 Madison Keys and No. 23 Danielle Collins will lead the U.S. Fed Cup team against Australia next month. Sofia Kenin and Nicole Melichar will join them on the team announced Wednesday by the U.S. Tennis Association and team captain Kathy Rinaldi. The 25-year-old Collins
9:52 AM ET Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Australian Open finalist Petra Kvitova won eight straight games to take control of the match before needing a tiebreaker to finally beat Victoria Azarenka 6-2, 7-6 (3) on Wednesday in the second round of the St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy. Kvitova, playing her opening match after a
9:29 AM ET Associated Press KIEV, Ukraine — Australian Open quarterfinalist Elina Svitolina is in a dispute with the Ukrainian Tennis Federation and has withdrawn from her country’s Fed Cup team. Svitolina, who is ranked seventh in the world, says she can’t play upcoming Fed Cup matches in Poland because she is injured. But the
3:11 PM ET Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Victoria Azarenka set up a meeting with Australian Open finalist Petra Kvitova at the St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy on Tuesday after a sometimes-shaky 6-4, 6-1 win over Russian qualifier Margarita Gasparyan. Azarenka, herself a two-time Australian Open champion, struggled on serve at times and gave up
12:29 PM ET When we look back on the Australian Open of 2019 in years to come, the thing we most remember may be that it marked the time and place at which Novak Djokovic rekindled the GOAT debate and launched his own campaign to be included in the conversation. Djokovic’s demolition of lifelong rival
10:33 AM ET Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Russian veteran Vera Zvonareva advanced to the second round of the St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy by beating Ekaterina Makarova 6-3, 6-4 Monday. The 34-year-old Zvonareva returned to the top 100 in the rankings this month after a six-year absence. Zvonareva will next play either Julia Goerges
4:53 PM ET Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Maria Sharapova earned her first WTA win in her native Russia in 13 years, beating Daria Gavrilova 6-0, 6-4 in the first round of the St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy on Monday. In a win that sets up a second-round match against Russian No. 1 Daria Kasatkina,
10:02 AM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — Two days before Sunday night’s Australian Open final, and after a nearly flawless semifinal drubbing of Frenchman Lucas Pouille, world No. 1 Novak Djokovic spent a considerable amount of his postmatch news conference dissecting the much-improved game of Rafael Nadal. “He has played impressively well throughout the entire tournament,”