Tunisia’s history-making star is on a mission in Melbourne but remains grounded: ‘I like to smile and laugh with everyone’ It is dark and rainy at the dead of night Read more

Work remains but male tears, hand-holding and group chants of Atomic Kitten songs are welcome recent sporting features If there was a defining sporting moment of 2022, aside from the Read more

21-time grand slam winner has one win from last six games Nadal faces Britain’s world No 40 Jack Draper in round one Top seed Rafael Nadal is confident he can Read more

Australian No 1 withdraws from home Open with knee injury Tomljanovic was quarter-finalist at Wimbledon and the US Open in 2022 Australian women’s No 1 Ajla Tomljanovic has been forced Read more

The nine-times Australian Open champion shows no sign of a hangover from last year’s controversy and is the player to beat In the hours after Novak Djokovic was briefly freed Read more

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The in-form American on her privileged upbringing, reaching No 3 in the world and her grand slam ambitions The first major statement of the new tennis season came swiftly and Read more

Evans says collapse of ITF and Kosmos deal was ‘matter of time’ Cam Norrie into Auckland final, Jack Draper loses in Adelaide Dan Evans would like to see Davis Cup Read more

The bad boy of the court is someone you can’t help rooting for in this series from the makers of F1: Drive to Survive. Even if it fails to make Read more

Along with the world No 24, Alex de Minaur will lead the local charge in Melbourne with nine other men and six women also flying the flag In a regular Read more