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Osaka climbs to second after Australian Open triumph
The Japanese star beat Jennifer Brady of the US in straight sets in the final to lift the trophy in Melbourne for the second time in three years.
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Barty time as Serena sets up showdown with world number one
Williams and Barty ground out tough wins at the Yarra Valley Classic, but a teary-eyed Australian Open champion Kenin lost a repeat of last year's final against Garbine Muguruza in straight sets.
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Halep withdraws from Palermo, organisers 'profoundly disappointed'
Palermo will be the first professional tennis event across the WTA and men’s ATP Tours after a five-month break.
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US Open to go ahead without fans, says New York Governor Cuomo
The Australian Open is the only Grand Slam event to have been played so far this year. The French Open has been moved to September and is due to start one week after the scheduled U.S. Open men’s final, while Wimbledon has been cancelled.
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'Homebody' Osaka making the most of isolation, remains focused on Olympics
Osaka, a two-time Grand Slam winner who also became the first Japanese player to reach world number one, had been preparing for another action-packed summer including her Olympics debut on home soil at Tokyo 2020.
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Season should resume next March at Indian Wells, says Jabeur
Professional tennis has been suspended since March due to the coronavirus outbreak when Indian Wells became the first major tournament to be cancelled.
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Halep says foot injury improving as tennis remains on hold
The Romanian star had barely wrapped up a victory at the WTA tournament in Dubai in February when she pulled out of the following tournament in Doha with the injury, which an MRI showed to be tendinitis and inflammation.
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Wimbledon chief fears 'no more tennis this year'
Tennis has been in lockdown since early last month and is not scheduled to return until July 13 at the earliest following the cancellation of Wimbledon for the first time since World War II on Wednesday.
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Top players donate, lower tier counts cost of coronavirus shutdown
Novak Djokovic last week pledged one million euros (895,305.69 pounds) to help buy medical equipment in his native Serbia, while Rafa Nadal has called on fellow Spanish athletes to help raise 11 million euros to fight the pandemic.
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ATP and WTA seasons suspended until 7 June: organisers
The announcement temporarily shuts down the men's and women's clay court season a day after the French Open was pushed back to September.
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Serena Williams, Wozniacki march into Auckland semis
Serena Williams wore down a tenacious Laura Siegemund to make the WTA Auckland Classic semi-finals on Friday.
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'Very special' - Sharapova handed Aussie Open wildcard
The 32-year-old, who won the tournament in 2008, has slipped down the rankings to 147, outside automatic qualification, and was bounced out of the Brisbane International this week in the first round.
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'She smelled expensive' - Naomi Osaka reveals Beyonce pep talk
The two-time Grand Slam champion, who will be defending her Australian Open title this month, bumped into Beyonce and her husband Jay-Z while still 'depressed' after losing in the fourth round at the US Open.
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'Still a lot of fire': Sharapova accepts Brisbane wildcard
The five-time major winner will open her 2020 campaign in Brisbane after being awarded a wildcard by organisers in preparation for the Australian Open later in January.
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2019 a year of upheaval - except for Nadal and Djokovic
In many ways 2019 felt like a year of upheaval with a revamped Davis Cup, a shake-up in the ATP hierarchy and new faces lighting up the women’s game, yet some things - notably the furniture at the top of men’s tennis - refuse to budge.
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Clijsters' 2020 comeback delayed by knee injury
Kim Clijsters, 36, last played on the WTA tour in 2012 and had announced in September that she was planning to make a comeback when the new season begins in January.
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Bertens stuns world number one Barty in WTA Finals
Bertens won 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 in two hours and nine minutes in a see-saw match featuring 12 breaks of serve.
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Gauff salutes Federer's words of wisdom
Gauff defeated 2017 Roland Garros winner Jelena Ostapenko 6-3, 1-6, 6-2 in the Linz final for her maiden title.
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Naomi Osaka changes coach for second time this year
Osaka had already caught the tennis world by surprise when she announced she was parting ways with coach Sascha Bajin, who had overseen her stunning rise to win two grand slams - the US Open in 2018 and the Australian Open title in January.
