MELBOURNE — Dominic Thiem will get another chance to win his first major championship after defeating Alexander Zverev, 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (3), 7-6 (4), in a taut men’s semifinal at the Australian Open on Friday night. Thiem, a 26-year-old Austrian, will play Novak Djokovic in Sunday’s men’s final. It will be first time the two […] More
MELBOURNE, Australia — At age 21, Sofia Kenin has not arrived at her numerical goal in tennis. “I want to be No. 1,” she said recently in Melbourne, as she has been saying since she was 6 years old. But for now Kenin, a fiery and driven Floridian, is one match away from her first […] More
How to watch: ESPN, 2:30 a.m. Eastern; streaming on ESPN+, 7:15 p.m. and ESPN3, 2:30 a.m. Friday’s schedule: Men | Women Sofia Kenin vs. Garbiñe Muguruza Sofia Kenin, the 14th seed, reached her first Grand Slam final by beating Ashleigh Barty, the world No. 1 and homegrown favorite at the Australian Open. Kenin and Barty […] More
MELBOURNE, Australia — Novak Djokovic continued his run of Grand Slam success against Roger Federer, and this time there was little suspense. In the Wimbledon final last year, Djokovic had to save two match points and fend off attack after attack in the fifth set before prevailing in one of the best matches of the […] More
How to watch: Tennis Channel, 7 p.m. Eastern time, then on ESPN, 9 p.m.; streaming on ESPN+, 7 p.m. and ESPN3, 9 p.m. Thursday’s schedule: Men | Women Men’s Semifinals Alexander Zverev vs. Dominic Thiem In the first set of Alexander Zverev’s quarterfinal match against Stan Wawrinka, Zverev looked lost. Wawrinka’s powerful serve and backhand […] More
MELBOURNE, Australia — There will be a new-generation men’s semifinal at the Australian Open when Dominic Thiem faces Alexander Zverev for a chance to face Roger Federer or Novak Djokovic in the final. Both defeated members of tennis’s old guard in the quarterfinals, with Thiem finishing off a thrilling victory over No. 1 Rafael Nadal […] More
MELBOURNE, Australia — In downtown Melbourne, Ashleigh Barty is nearly impossible to avoid. Her image adorns posters not just for tennis apparel but also for things like sunblock, watches and even Vegemite, the savory spread that is an Australian classic. The displays embody a hope — unfulfilled for more than 40 years — for someone […] More
MELBOURNE, Australia — Andre Agassi, one of tennis’s better players and deeper thinkers, used to say that one of the things he found most maddening and fascinating about the game was that it had no predetermined finish line. “You can’t run out the clock in tennis,” he said. But a clock certainly seemed to be […] More
