In the second semi final match on Rod Laver Arena on Thursday, top seed Victoria Azarenka took on the bright new star in the women’s game, the 28th seeded American Sloane Stephens. At just 19 years old, Stephens was a cool customer the day before when she defeated her idol, [...]
Maria Sharapova, the 2nd seed, came on to Rod Laver Arena to do battle with Na Li, the 6th seed, for a place in the final in blistering 44° heat. After the departure of Serena Williams in the quarters on Wednesday, the ruthless Russian was the firm favourite to lift [...]
Follow Novak Djokovic v David Ferrer Live here: Djokovic Ferrer Australian Open 2013 SF Live Commentary Li Na v Maria Sharapova Li Na has justified her dark horse tag, pulling off an excellent straight sets victory over the previously unbeaten Agnieszka Radwanska. While her serve was still not overly [...]
2nd seed Roger Federer defeated 7th seed Jo-Wilfired Tsonga in a five-set thriller to enter the semifinal of Australian Open 2013 where he will meet Andy Murray. Another spectacular tennis show at Rod Laver Arena today – the spectators had to wait for three and a half hours and five [...]
Andy Murray booked his Australian Open 2013 semi-final place after defeating Frenchman Jeremy Chardy in straight set 6-4 6-1 6-2. The no.3 seed Murray is yet to lose a set in this year’s Grand Slam and he will be facing the winner of the match between Federer and Tsonga next. [...]
After the excitement of the first set in the first match on Rod Laver Arena between Victoria Azarenka and Svetlana Kuznetsova, everyone’s favourite to take the title Down Under, Serena Williams, came on court to play Sloane Stephens, the 29th seed and now the American number two. Serena was unbelievably [...]
In the first match on Rod Laver Arena on Day 10 of the Australian Open on Wednesday, world number one Vika Azarenka took on Sveta Kuznetsova, former world number 2 and twice a Grand Slam champion who is now ranked 75 after not playing the entire second half of the [...]
Top seed Novak Djokovic needed four sets to send home Tomas Berdych and set up a semifinal match against Ferrer at Australian Open 2013. Fifth seed Czech Berdych reached Melbourne quarterfinals without dropping a set, while top-seeded Serb played a marvelous five-setter against Wawrinka in previous round. That might have [...]
Fourth seed David Ferrer pulled off a glorious comeback and won a five-setter against compatriot Nicolas Almagro at Australian Open 2013. Tenth seed Almagro was eager to book his first ever Grand Slam semifinal ticket and it was all going according to his plan in the opening two sets. His [...]
Going into what all the pundits expected to be a very tough battle, Na Li held a 5-4 head to head advantage over Agnieszka Radwanska and the Pole also had a 5 to 1 losing record in Grand Slam quarter final matches, but Radwanska had beaten Li in their last [...]
No.4 seed Spaniard David Ferrer came back from two sets down to defeat countryman Nicolas Almagro, winning 4-6 4-6 7-5 7-6 (4) 6-2 and advancing to the Australian Open 2013 semi-final. Almagro was literally one tiny step away from upsetting Ferrer, but he failed to serve out the match when [...]
As the quarter finals of the 2013 Australian Open approach, Michael Hale picks a great encounter from the same stage of a previous tournament. Pete Sampras vs. Jim Courier (quarter final, 1995) 6-7 (4), 6-7 (3), 6-3, 6-4, 6-3 In recent years the Australian Open seems to have accrued [...]
