MELBOURNE, Australia — When Ash Barty won the 2022 Australian Open, she became the first Australian women’s player to win her home Slam in almost half a century. With a Grand Slam title on ...

Barty, who won three women's singles Grand ... another first-time winner for the iconic event. 'But who’s my tip to win? I’ve settled on the world No.6 and former Wimbledon champion Elena ...

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Australia’s biggest hope, Alex de Minaur, reached the Australian Open quarterfinals for the first time in his career, ...

Compatriot Zheng Qinwen reached the Australian Open final, before making a winning run at the Olympics where she upset then world No. 1 Iga Swiatek en route to the women’s singles gold – she ...

Australia has been punching below its weight as a Grand Slam nation for some time, with just the two major winners (Barty and Stosur) on the women’s side in 44 years. Lleyton Hewitt (Wimbledon ...

Naomi Osaka fought back from a set down on Wednesday to reach the third round of a Grand Slam for the first time since the birth of her daughter in 2023, gaining a "little revenge" for defeat at the ...

Overall, Sabalenka is 16-2 on Rod Laver Arena with her only losses against Serena Williams in 2021 and Ashleigh Barty in 2018 ... only matched by four other women in history.

So light, in fact, that Craig Tyzzer – coach of the world No 1 at the time, Ashleigh Barty – complained ... acute at Wimbledon in 2022, where she barely hit a winner on that side, and seemed ...

Her competitor, Sabalenka, is ranked No. 1 in the world for women's single tennis ... in the semifinals of the 2023 U.S. Open, and Ashleigh Barty won the 2022 Australian Open.

He had also won Wimbledon ... women have been led by Margaret Smith Court (who is tied with Novak Djokovic with 24 major singles titles), Evonne Goolagong Cawley and Ashleigh Barty.

Some of the other Australian Open Women's Doubles winners are as follows ... Elena Vesnina 2013 Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci Ashleigh Barty and Casey Dellacqua 2012 Svetlana Kuznetsova and ...