Injury scare for Serena Williams ahead of Australian Open; withdraws before semis match vs Barty
Tennis | February 05, 2021 14:46 ISTSerena Williams withdrew from an Australian Open tuneup tournament citing a right shoulder injury.
Serena Williams withdrew from an Australian Open tuneup tournament citing a right shoulder injury.
The 23-time Grand Slam champion needed a match tiebreaker to beat fellow American Danielle Collins 6-2, 4-6, 10-6.
Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nada have aired reservations about the potential restrictions on players, limits on player entourages and other changes being considered for the U.S. Open.
The USTA is mulling shifting the Cincinnati Open to New York. This would let them host the US Open right after the tournament, thus maintaining a secure biosphere for the players.
Women's World No.1 Ashleigh Barty practiced forehand volley with a cricket bat in a video shared by the ICC.
Milos Raonic's perfect record at Melbourne Park this year — four straight-sets victories, including a third-round win over No. 6 Stefanos Tsitsipas — is in for a serious quarterfinal test against a guy he's never beaten in nine attempts.
French Open champion Barty will play her quarterfinal match on Tuesday against two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova. Kvitova beat Barty in the quarterfinals last year at Melbourne Park.
Ash Barty was on and off the court quickly in her third-round match, a straight-sets win that left her most of the rest of the day to do whatever she pleased. If she chose to watch any tennis on TV, it would have been interesting viewing.
Top-ranked Ash Barty lost the first set of her first-round match at the Australian Open, where she's aiming to be the first homegrown winner in more than 40 years, before recovering to beat Leisa Tsurenko 5-7, 6-1, 6-1.
The French Open champion had reached finals in Australia before, finishing runner-up twice at the Sydney International after losses to Angelique Kerber in 2018 and to Petra Kvitova last year.
Ashleigh Barty survived a late collapse to win her second-round match at the Adelaide International against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.
Ashleigh Barty faced an upset in her first match of 2020 as she went down to America's Jennifer Brady in Brisbane International.
Barty went to a nearby animal shelter after she returned from the Fed Cup loss to France in Perth last November and donated money, because at that stage animals were the main casualties of the flames.
Defending Australian Open champion Naomi Osaka, who is on the other side of the draw, has a first-round match against Maria Sakkari.
Barty became the first Australian to be named WTA world No. 1 since Evonne Goolagong Cawley in 1976, and recorded the most matches won on tour this season.
Ashleigh Barty received the prestigious Newcombe Honour for the third time.
World No.40 Mladenovic started slowly before taking advantage of an error-strewn Barty, whose 15-match Fed Cup winning streak was ended in a see-sawing match lasting two hours and 31 minutes.
Barty will play Caroline Garcia of France. Ajla Tomljanovic will make her debut for Australia playing the opening singles match Saturday against Kristina Mladenovic.
The title adds to the 23-year-old Australian's lengthy list of achievements in 2019 including winning her first Grand Slam title at the French Open.
Barty, like Svitolina, dropped the opening set of her semifinal before beating second-ranked Karolina Pliskova of Czech Republic 4-6, 6-2, 6-3.
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