Top 30 tennis player Dayana Yastremska’s latest appeal in her doping case was dismissed Wednesday by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, meaning she is still ineligible to return to competition.
Players preparing for the Australian Open will have to isolate until they return a negative test for COVID-19 after a worker at one of the tournament’s Melbourne quarantine hotels tested positive for the virus.
Thursday’s play at Melbourne Park has been cancelled after a hotel worker tested positive for COVID-19 at a tournament quarantine hotel. As a consequence, play the ATP Cup, two ATP 250 tournaments and three WTA 500 tournaments will not happen.
Canada’s Felix Auger-Aliassime opened his 2021 season with a 6-3 6-1 win over Japan’s Yuichi Sugita in the second round of the Murray River Open on Wednesday.
After another thrilling day at the ATP Cup, the stage is set for the final day of the group stage in Melbourne. Italy and Russia have already qualified for the semi-finals by winning Group C and Group D, respectively.
Canada’s Leylah Annie Fernandez beat 2017 U.S. Open champion Sloane Stephens 6-3, 6-1 in the first round of the Grampians Trophy on Wednesday.
The ATP and WTA have picked up another industry award for Tennis United, the digital series that provided a voice to professional tennis players and delivered exclusive content to players and fans globally in 2020.
The ATP Cup is not only about world-class tennis, played out in tense and electric atmospheres, but it’s also about team bonding on and off the court.
Ash Barty looked like the world No. 1 in the first set, then struggled the rest of the way against No. 52-ranked Marie Bouzkova before completing a 6-0, 4-6, 6-3 win in an Australian Open tuneup tournament on Wednesday.
