The top-ranked UNC women’s tennis team had no trouble in tilts against No. 11 Auburn on Saturday and No. 3 Georgia on Sunday, defeating the Tigers 6-1 and the Bulldogs 7-0 to move to 4-0 on the young season. On Saturday against Auburn, wins from the top-ranked pair of Reese Brantmeier and Elizabeth Scotty and…

Getty Images By Jonathan Jurejko BBC Sport at Melbourne Park Australian Open 2024 Venue: Melbourne Park Dates: 14-28 January Coverage: Commentary every day from 07:00 GMT on Tennis Breakfast on Radio 5 Sports Extra and BBC Sounds, with selected live text commentaries and match reports on the BBC Sport website and app Britain’s Cameron Norrie…

There have been an Australian Open-record 32 five-setters played so far this fortnight. Nine have progressed to fifth-set tiebreakers. Alexander Zverev has played two of those. And won both. Zverev, who outlasted Slovakian qualifier Lukas Klein in the second round, survived yet again at Melbourne Park on Monday evening. The German battled past No 19…

Getty Images By Adam Chowdhury BBC Sport Australian Open 2024 Venue: Melbourne Park Dates: 14-28 January Coverage: Commentary every day from 07:00 GMT on Tennis Breakfast on Radio 5 Sports Extra and BBC Sounds, with selected live text commentaries and match reports on the BBC Sport website and app Second seed Carlos Alcaraz said he…

Matt Walsh, Assistant EditorJan 22, 2024, 03:55 AM ET Close Matt Walsh is a Melbourne-based sports journalist who willingly travels far and wide to watch any sport. Not only has he seen NFL in Dallas, football in London, baseball in Arlington and hockey in Boston, he’s covered F1, AFL, Wimbledon and the Australian Open for…

Anna Kalinskaya sprinted into her first Grand Slam quarter-final by beating Jasmine Paolini 6-4, 6-2 in round four of the Australian Open on Monday evening in Melbourne. In a matchup between two players who had previously never been to the last 16 at a major, Kalinskaya cruised in a mere one hour and 16 minutes.…

Coaches are a huge part of any tennis player’s professional life! Their contribution can potentially make or break their careers. This year, there has been a lot of confusion and curiosity regarding tennis coaches drawing connections and skipping from one to another, whether it be Coco Gauff, Naomi Osaka, or even Chinese number 1, Qinwen…

A couple of years ago scientists in California had an intriguing theory. Might a lack of sleep affect a person’s desire to help out another human being? And so, like all good scientists, they put it to the test. First they recruited 24 adults and split them into two groups – one of which pulled an…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A pro-Palestinian protester threw papers onto an Australian Open court and briefly disrupted a match between Alexander Zverev and Cameron Norrie on Monday before being stopped by other spectators. Olympic champion Zverev said he didn’t feel unsafe but questioned why it took several minutes for security to react, leaving it to…