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Williams withdraws from semifinals in Australian Open tuneup 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 for this Australian Open because of the pandemic Loading the player... 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 p...

Inside Edge Super Bowl special: A game for the ages Share April 12, 2021 In this week’s Inside Edge analysis, Joe Mellor and Nick Haynes at Form Labs – a division of Bettorlogic – take a look at this weekend’s jam-packed sports schedule, with the Super Bowl LV set to be the biggest sports betting event of the year. After quite a sombre January, the sporting world brings us the most entertaining weekend of the year to date. England’s cricket team kick-off their series against India, w...

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World No.1 Ashleigh Barty will play for a title on home soil for a second straight season following Serena Williams withdrawal from the Yarra Valley Classic due to a right shoulder injury.

Nick Roy / theScore The 2021 tennis season is officially underway with Australian Open tuneup events taking place in Melbourne. COVID-19 has dramatically altered the lead-up to the first Grand Slam, though tournament director Craig Tiley is adamant the event will go on as scheduled. Here are five storylines to watch when the action begins Sunday evening. How will COVID-19 impact the tournament? DAVID GRAY / AFP / Getty The Australian Open was the only Grand Slam unaffected by the coronavirus p...

Australian Open: Ashleigh Barty returns to Grand Slam tennis with no regrets By Russell FullerBBC tennis correspondent Last updated on Ashleigh Barty won her maiden Grand Slam singles title at the French Open in 2019 Until this week in Melbourne, world number one Ashleigh Barty had not played a competitive match since 28 February last year. A three-set defeat by Petra Kvitova in the semi-finals in Doha may have stung at the time, but high-profile events in Indian Wells and Miami were just arou...

Organizers: Australian Open will start on time There were 160 players back in isolation because a hotel quarantine worker tested positive for COVID-19. Six tuneup tournaments were suspended for a day so that 507 people connected with the Australian Open could be tested for the virus. Apparently, no worries. The Canadian Press Australian Open tournament director Craig Tiley , The Canadian Press MELBOURNE, Australia — There were 160 players back in is...

Published on: Thursday, February 04, 2021 By: AFP Text Size: Serena Williams of the US hits a return against Bulgaria’s Tsvetana Pironkova during their Yarra Valley Classic women’s singles tennis match in Melbourne. MELBOURNE: Serena Williams continued her impressive Australian Open preparations with a straight-sets thrashing of Tsvetana Pironkova Wednesday, as world number three Naomi Osaka and top-ranked Ashleigh Barty struggled. Williams, 39, has been on belligerent form at the Yarra Va...

Up to 600 players and support staff connected to the Australian Open will have to isolate until they have been tested for Covid-19. — Reuters MELBOURNE: Up to 600 players and support staff connected to the Australian Open will have to isolate until they have been tested for Covid-19 after a hotel quarantine worker in Melbourne returned a positive result for the virus on Wednesday. Play at the six warm-up events for the Grand Slam at Melbourne Park is likely to be heavily disrupted on Thursda...

Men’s Australian Open outright odds, predictions and tips Djokovic bids to close the gap Eight of Novak Djokovic’s 17 grand-slam singles titles have been won in Melbourne, including seven of the last 10 editions, and four times his victim in the final has been Britain’s Andy Murray.  The relentless Serb has hardly found motivation a problem during his career, but the chance to close on Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, who share the men’s record of 20 grand-slam singles tit...