Tennis

5:45 AM ET Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia — Ash Barty ended a long drought by reaching the Australian Open final with a 6-1, 6-3 win over unseeded Madison Keys. She still has one to go. Barty is the first Australian woman to reach the singles final of her home Grand Slam tournament since Wendy Turnbull

3:04 AM ET ESPN News Services Daniil Medvedev rallied from two sets down and saved a match point before beating No. 9 Felix Auger-Aliassime 6-7 (4), 3-6, 7-6 (2), 7-5, 6-4 to move into the Australian Open semifinals. The US Open champion’s bid to become the first man in the Open era to win his

11:37 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com Danielle Collins’ trademark screams of “Come on!” and “Let’s go!” could be heard reverberating throughout the stifling hot grounds at Melbourne Park. It was reminiscent of her breakthrough run at the Australian Open three years ago, but so much else has changed since then for the 28-year-old American. Collins has

9:03 PM ET ESPN News Services MELBOURNE, Australia — Danielle Collins has joined fellow American Madison Keys in the Australian Open semifinals. Collins swung the match in her favor with a key service break in the final game of the opening set on her way to a 7-5, 6-1 quarterfinal win over Alize Cornet on

2:51 PM ET Associated Press Kei Nishikori, the 2014 U.S. Open runner-up, will have arthroscopic surgery on his left hip this week and be sidelined for about six months. Nishikori posted a message Tuesday on his app saying he tried “several different rehab options” before deciding with his medical team to go ahead with the

10:58 PM ET ESPN News Services MELBOURNE, Australia — Madison Keys is the first player into the semifinals at Melbourne Park after defeating French Open champion Barbora Krejcikova 6-3, 6-2. Krejcikova took a medical timeout while trailing 5-2 in the first set from what might have been heat stress as temperatures topped 86 degrees. She

6:36 AM ET Australian Open chief Craig Tiley said the Novak Djokovic saga will not define the 2022 tournament but that he regrets how the volatile situation took the focus off the Grand Slam and players leading up to the Melbourne Park major. Djokovic, 34, was deported from Australia after an 11-day rollercoaster involving two

3:03 AM ET Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia — Rafael Nadal stayed on track for a record-breaking 21st Grand Slam singles title with a topsy-turvy 6-3, 6-4, 4-6, 3-6, 6-3 win over Denis Shapovalov in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open on Tuesday at Melbourne Park. Nadal had several medical timeouts in the four-hour match, appearing

12:00 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com Madison Keys had just won her first WTA title since 2019 with a dominant run at Adelaide earlier this month, and Jessica Pegula didn’t hesitate to shoot her friend a congratulatory text: “Comeback season,” Pegula typed with her thumbs. “She’s back.” Keys received the message, literally and figuratively, and now

9:00 AM ET Stefanos Tsitsipas booked his place in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open after a roller-coaster win over American Taylor Fritz. The world’s No. 4 player eventually won 4-6, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 in a match in which he was hit with serve and coaching violations, and he had a won a set

1:47 AM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com Competing in her 63rd major main draw appearance, Alize Cornet finally advanced to the first quarterfinals of her career with a 6-4, 3-6, victory over former world No. 1 Simona Halep on Monday at the Australian Open. Cornet’s streak marks the most majors played before reaching a quarterfinal in the

1:00 PM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — Shooter McGavin never liked Happy Gilmore. “He’s a disgrace to the game,” he once argued. “The man is destroying golf. Kick him off the tour.” Gilmore, the flamboyant, failed hockey player turned unorthodox golf pro, a fictional character wonderfully portrayed by Adam Sandler in the 1996 film, was a

1:30 AM ET Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia — After fending off four set points and being unable to convert the first six of his own, Rafael Nadal finally clinched a 28-minute and 40-second tiebreaker to get himself on course to secure a spot in the Australian Open quarterfinals for the 14th time. And now, after

9:47 PM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — Fans at the Australian Open were asked by security to remove T-shirts featuring the slogan “Where is Peng Shuai?” which references the ongoing uncertainty surrounding the Chinese former tennis player’s well-being and whereabouts. In November, Peng, the former world No. 14 singles player and part of a No. 1

9:10 PM ET ESPN News Services MELBOURNE, Australia — Former U.S. Open finalist Madison Keys became the first woman to reach this year’s Australian Open quarterfinals with a dominant 6-3, 6-1 victory over eighth-seeded Spanish player Paula Badosa on Sunday. Keys, a 26-year-old American player who defeated 2020 Australian Open champion Sofia Kenin in the

5:14 AM ET Alex De Minaur has reached the Australian Open’s round of 16 for the first time, the local hope winning his ninth straight set at Melbourne Park as he pushed aside Pablo Andujar. The 32nd seed beat the Spanish veteran and regular hitting partner Andujar 6-4, 6-4, 6-2 in another commanding display as

2:56 AM ET ESPN News Services MELBOURNE, Australia — Daniil Medvedev didn’t mind the crowd reaction this time. The No. 2-ranked Medvedev rolled to a 6-4, 6-4, 6-2 win over Botic van de Zandschulp in the third round of the Australian Open on Saturday, two days after a challenging second-round win over Nick Kyrgios. Medvedev,

7:46 PM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — Controversial Australian tennis star Nick Kyrgios has revealed a fight almost broke out on Day 5 of the Australian Open after he and doubles teammate Thanasi Kokkinakis sent the No. 1 ranked pairing of Nikola Mektic and Mate Pavic packing. Kyrgios and Kokkinakis caused one of the boilovers of