Alex de Minaur will lead Australia into Davis Cup battle in Spain after a career-best season that has him as confident as ever.
For so long one of the “nearly men” of world tennis,Alex De Minaur has beaten a top-five ranked player at the 19th time of asking after overcoming Daniil Medvedev.
Top players from Russia and Belarus will be banned from a lucrative new mixed-gender tennis tournament,starting in late December and launching the Australian summer.
The Australian confirmed a knee problem was the reason for his exit before a quarter-final against American Taylor Fritz.
Nick Kyrgios was the sole Australian survivor at the Japan Open with his straight sets win over Chun-Hsin Tseng as Alex de Minaur and Thanasi Kokkinakis both fell.
Nick Kyrgios has joined the chorus of laments,thanks and tributes following news of Roger Federer’s impending retirement from tennis.
To watch Roger Federer in the flesh was to savour a glimpse of sport at its most idealised. The more you studied him,the more you noticed how not a single element was rushed or forced.
Australia’s Davis Cup captain Lleyton Hewitt hailed his old rival Roger Federer as the greatest of their era,as the tributes flowed for the retiring champion.
The Swiss tennis great announced his retirement from the sport on Thursday,saying next week’s Laver Cup will be his final ATP tournament.
Carlos Alcaraz saved a match point and dug deep to prevail over Jannik Sinner in a five-set thriller to reach the US Open semi-finals in the early hours of Thursday in New York.
Nick Kyrgios might never get a better chance to win a major than this US Open,but lost in a quarter-final. He took it out on his racquet.