Sydney, Jan 20 (IANS) Two people have died after a car hit a tree west of Sydney in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) on Tuesday morning. The NSW Police Force said in a statement that emergency services were called to reports of the crash near the small town of Black Springs, 135 km west of Sydney, about 10:50 a.m. on Tuesday, Xinhua News Agency reported.Officers arrived at the scene and found that a male driver and female front-seat passenger, both believed to be aged in their 20s, …
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Melbourne, Jan 20 (IANS) Kazakhstan’s Elena Rybakina, seeded No. 5, defeated Slovenian Kaja Juvan 6-4, 6-3, to advance to the second round of the Australian Open in the second match of the day at Margaret Court Arena in Melbourne Park on Tuesday. Rybakina matched the performance of other Top 10 players who have played so far at this year’s Australian Open, moving on to the second round. She is set to play against France’s Varvara Gracheva next.Kaja Juva, ranked No. 100 in the world, fought v…
Melbourne, Jan 20 (IANS) World No. 8 Ben Shelton overcame a dangerous opening-round draw of the Australian Open at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne Park on Day 3 of the first Grand Slam of the year to defeat Ugo Humbert.Shelton clinched a victory in a two-hour-37-minute thriller as he achieved a hard-fought victory, 6-3, 7-6(2), 7-6(5), over the French opponent to advance to the second round in Melbourne.Although the score indicates a straight-sets victory, the match was actually a tense battle …
Melbourne, Jan 18 (IANS) World No. 1 Carlos Alcaraz opened his Australian Open campaign in commanding fashion, defeating Australia’s Adam Walton 6-3, 7-6, 6-2 in a first-round match at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne on Sunday.The top-seeded Spaniard needed just under two hours to outperform the home favourite, displaying his trademark blend of power, precision, and court coverage to take control of the contest. Alcaraz struck eight aces and committed only one double fault, underlining his ef…
Melbourne, Jan 18 (IANS) Emma Raducanu shook off an unsteady opening to assert her authority in the first round of the Australian Open, powering past Thailand’s Mananchaya Sawangkaew with a 6-4, 6-1 victory and extending her flawless record in Melbourne openers.The British No.1, seeded 28th, was made to work early by the World No.196, who played with freedom and precision in her Grand Slam debut. Sawangkaew struck the ball cleanly from the outset, repeatedly finding the baseline and unsettling…
Melbourne, Jan 17 (IANS) Seven-time Grand Slam champion Venus Williams’ historic return to the Australian Open ended in a first-round defeat as she went down 6-7, 6-3, 6-4 to Serbia’s Olga Danilovic at the John Cain Arena in Melbourne on Sunday.At 45 years, Williams became the oldest player to compete in the Australian Open in the Open Era, drawing loud support from the Melbourne crowd in her first-round clash. The American showed flashes of her trademark power but was unable to sustain mome…
Melbourne, Jan 17 (IANS) Emma Raducanu has questioned the Australian Open scheduling, which forced her to hurriedly prepare for the major, as she arrived here on Saturday with her opening round game slated for Sunday. The British No. 1 reached Melbourne on Friday after concluding the quarter-finals of the Hobart International. She will begin her campaign here on Sunday against the relatively unknown Thai player Mananchaya Sawangkaew.She has been scheduled for opening day and assigned the second …
Auckland, Jan 17 (IANS) Jakub Mensik clinched the Auckland Classic title after defeating Sebastian Baez 6-3 7-6(7) in the final, producing another composed performance to cap an outstanding week at the tournament.The final match lasted for one hour and 22 minutes but could have gone for much longer had Baez taken one of the three set points he had during the second set tiebreaker.The 20-year-old Czech saved three consecutive set points from 3/6 in the second-set tie-break before claiming a champ…
Melbourne, Jan 16 (IANS) Before the start of the Australian Open 2026, tennis star Coco Gauff has once again spoken out on the issue of prize money at Grand Slam tournaments, renewing calls for a larger share for players as the season’s first major approaches its January 18 start.The Australian Open pledged a 16 per cent increase in the total prize purse to Aus$111.5 million (US$75 million) this year. The winners of the men’s and women’s singles at the first Grand Slam of the year will eac…
Hobart, Jan 13 (IANS) Germany’s Tatjana Maria registered a 6-4, 6-3 win over Venus Williams in the first round of the Hobart International on Tuesday. The first-ever meeting between the two players featured the oldest combined age between competitors, with Maria entering the tilt at age 38 and Williams at 45, since the 1973 founding of the WTA Tour by nearly three years.Venus has received a wild card entry for the Australian Open, which is set to begin on January 18 in Melbourne. This will be th…