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Stars Nadal, Gasol Launch Fundraiser To Aid Coronavirus-Hit Spain

Tennis ace Nadal and NBA hero Gasol have targeted raising 11 million euros ($12.3million) in the nation that has suffered the second-highest total of coronavirus deaths ...

Roger Federer Donates $1 Million To Vulnerable Swiss Amid COVID-19 Crisis

According to official figures reported to the World Health Organization, Switzerland has the ninth-highest number of infections in the world ...

Social Distancing Making Serena Williams On Edge Amid Global Pandemic

The 23-time Grand Slam champion posted a series of videos on TikTok describing her concerns for her 2-year-old daughter, Olympia ...

Rafael Nadal Beats Unseeded Fritz To Win Third Mexican Open Title

The 19-time Grand Slam winner made eight unforced errors and needed just one ace but it came in the final game of the second set to get to championship point. ...

World Number Two Rafael Nadal Into Mexican Open

The Spaniard hit 20 winners as he kept his hopes alive of regaining the top ranking with a 6-2, 7-5 victory over the 20-year-old Kecmanovic to reach the quarter-finals at the Acapulco hardcourt tournament. ...

Britain's Kyle Edmund Powers To New York Open Victory

The eighth-seeded 25-year-old right-hander wrapped up victory in 1hr 21min, converting the second of three match points. ...

Federer, Nadal Play Exhibition Match In Front Of Record Tennis Crowd

The organisers said an audited attendance of 51,954 beat the 42,517 who watched Federer play Alexander Zverev of Germany in Mexico City last November ...

World Number One Djokovic Puts Federer On Notice For Record Grand Slams

The five-set victory over Dominic Thiem was his eighth in eight finals in Melbourne, putting him alongside Federer and Nadal as the only men to win the same Slam eight times ...

King Novak Djokovic Beats Thiem To Win 8th Australian Open Title

The indomitable Serb stretched his unbeaten streak this season to 13 by rallying from two sets to one down and beating the courageous fifth-seeded Austrian 6-4, 4-6, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4 in a near four-hour ordeal ...

21-Year Old Sofia Kenin Stuns Muguruza To Win 2020 Australian Open

At 21 years and 80 days, Kenin is 22 days younger than Japan's Naomi Osaka when she won the title last year. She is the youngest champion since Maria Sharapova won aged 20 in 2008 ...

Can Thiem Upset King Novak Djokovic In The Australian Open Final?

Djokovic is 6-4 in their career head-to-heads, but Thiem has won four of the last five ...

Magical Novak Djokovic Powers Past Federer Into Australian Open Final

In the 50th instalment of one of sport's greatest rivalries, the Serb shrugged off a tentative start to reinforce his recent dominance, showing no mercy to the Swiss maestro in a 7-6 (7/1), 6-4, 6-3 win ...

Kenin Ruins World Number One Barty's Party, Mega Djokovic, Federer Clash Looms

Moscow-born Kenin, 21, looked stunned at reaching her first Grand Slam final, at a tournament where she has often gone unnoticed while fellow Americans Serena Williams and 15-year-old Coco Gauff hogged the headlines ...

Austria's Dominic Thiem Stuns Nadal To Storm Australian Open Semis

The fifth seed, beaten by Nadal in the last two French Open finals, battled past the Spaniard 7-6 (7/3), 7-6 (7/4), 4-6, 7-6 (8/6) to deny him a crack at a record-equalling 20th Grand Slam title ...