The blue planet that is Melbourne Park has never teemed with so much life as it has this year. Total attendance at the Australian Open reached 1.1 million, including qualifying week, and the 99-acre grounds were full of fresh experiments such as the child-friendly Topcourt area near the Yarra River.

Why is everyone so angry at what long has been known as the Happy Slam? Things are a little out of control at the Australian Open this year, and that’s got only a little to do with the results on the courts.

Goran Ivanisevic's brief stint as 2022 Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina's coach is over now that she is out of the Australian Open. Ivanisevic, a Wimbledon winner himself in 2001, posted a brief statement on social media Tuesday,

Henry Patten is hoping his second grand slam final has the same outcome as the first – but without the stress. Patten and his Finnish partner Harri Heliovaara produced one of the more remarkable Wimbledon victories of recent years last summer in a nail-biting men’s doubles final against Australians Max Purcell and Jordan Thompson.

Djokovic has beaten Alcaraz four times in seven overall meetings, including a victory in the final at the Paris Olympics last August

Zieliński and Hsieh Su-wei of Taiwan have advanced to the second round of the mixed doubles competition at the Australian Open Grand Slam tennis tournament in Melbourne.

Britain's Henry Patten says he will "try and replicate" his Wimbledon win after he and Finnish partner Harri Heliovaara reached the Australian Open men's doubles semi-finals.

It took a few years of planning for four Polish university friends living on four different continents but the dream of getting together at the Australian Open finally came true this month. Karolina Minczuk and her friends represent a growing wave of tennis enthusiasts,

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