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MELBOURNE: Serena Williams withdrew from an Australian Open tuneup tournament citing a right shoulder injury on Friday within hours of setting up a semifinal match against top-ranked Ash Barty. The 23-time Grand Slam champion usually doesn’t play in a tournament in the week before a Grand Slam event, but made an exception before last year’s US Open and for this Australian Open because of all the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The 39-year-old American was playing her first tour...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Serena Williams withdrew from an Australian Open tuneup tournament citing a right shoulder injury on Friday within hours of setting up a semifinal match against...

The other semi-final will pit sixth seed Garbine Muguruza against former French Open finalist Marketa Vondrousova. Muguruza won a confidence-boosting rematch of last year’s Australian Open final 6-2 6-2 against Sofia Kenin while Czech Vondrousova, who has struggled since losing to Barty in the Paris final in 2019, defeated Nadia Podoroska 4-6 6-3 10-4. At the Gippsland Trophy, Naomi Osaka continued her unbeaten sequence but Simona Halep struggled with what appeared to be a back or hip issue i...

A teary-eyed Sofia Kenin lost a repeat of last year's Australian Open final against Garbine Muguruza as warm-up tournaments for the Grand Slam resumed Frid

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Serena Williams withdrew from an Australian Open tuneup tournament citing a right shoulder injury on Friday within hours of setting up a semifinal match against...

Youthful Osaka, Barty stand in way of Serena's path to 24th Slam

Serena Williams has withdrawn from a semifinal match against top-ranked Ash Barty in an Australian Open tuneup event

Williams and Barty ground out tough wins at the Yarra Valley Classic, but a teary-eyed Australian Open champion Kenin lost a repeat of last years final against Garbine Muguruza in straight sets.

The Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia — Ash Barty got things started as the Australian Open tuneup events resumed Friday following an unscheduled day off because of a COVID-19 case stemming from one of the tournament quarantine hotels. A day after all matches in six tournaments were postponed so that 160 players could isolate and undergo testing, there were 70 matches on the order of play as organizers tried to cram all scheduled lead-in matches into three days before the year’s first m...

As Serena, Nadal eye records at Australian Open, COVID looms By HOWARD FENDRICHFebruary 5, 2021 GMT Easy as it is to assemble a list of significant Australian Open story lines — from Rafael Nadal’s bid for a men’s-record 21st Grand Slam singles trophy to Serena Williams’ try for her 24th, from Novak Djokovic’s attempt to win a third consecutive title at Melbourne Park to Sofia Kenin’s defense of her first major championship, and so on — nothing hangs over the upcoming two weeks qu...