Veteran Sam Stosur will play the Australian Open for a 20th time,matching the achievement of Australian great Lleyton Hewitt,after the 37-year-old was awarded a main draw wildcard.
Sam Stosur is back on court preparing for what could be her last Australian Open and she has expressed concern about the wellbeing of Chinese star Peng Shuai,who remains cut off from the tennis world.
World No.3 Stefanos Tsitsipas has declined to reveal his COVID-19 vaccination status as the Australian Open again prepares to stage its qualifying events abroad.
Ashleigh Barty will be missing from a new-look Australian team for the finals of the biggest women’s teams event in tennis,the Billie Jean King Cup.
Sam Stosur and Zhang Shuai beat Coco Gauff and Caty McNally 6-3,3-6,6-3 at Flushing Meadows for their second major title.
Hopes were unsurprisingly high that Ashleigh Barty would go deep at Wimbledon,if not win the whole thing,but few pundits expected two Australian women in the final eight.
World No.1 Ashleigh Barty was relieved after overcoming a tricky Carla Suarez Navarro while Nick Kyrgios was forced to wait with his match in the balance.
One of Ashleigh Barty’s leading rivals for Wimbledon,Simona Halep,has succumbed to injury,while returning Australian Nick Kyrgios confronts a familiar foe in the opening round.
Loathed instead of loved? Shunned instead of savoured? Clay has been down the pecking order for Australian tennis in recent decades,but things are changing.
Sam Stosur is confident Ashleigh Barty will be well and truly recovered from her arm injury and fully primed for a charge at a second Roland Garros major.
Sam Stosur and Matthew Ebden couldn’t keep up with two of the game’s elite doubles players,but they well and truly earned their wildcard despite a loss in Saturday night’s mixed doubles final.