“I tried not to do too many fancy things, but really stick with my clear plan,” is how Laura Siegemund explained her second-round upset of Zheng Qinwen, the second-place finisher at last year’s Australian Open.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — It wasn't often pretty, but two-time defending Australian Open champion Aryna Sabalenka extended a few impressive ... In another early match Friday, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova beat Laura Siegemund 6-1, 6-2 to also advance ...

That includes wins on Friday for No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka, who is the two-time ... the 27th seed, defeated Laura Siegemund 6-1, 6-2. Siegemund took a big step back after beating No. 5 Qinwen Zheng ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — It wasn’t often pretty, but two-time defending Australian Open champion Aryna Sabalenka extended ... Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova beat Laura Siegemund, 6-1, 6-2, to also ...

Aryna Sabalenka, Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic will be in action in their respective third round matches. Rohan Bopanna will also play in his mixed doubles match along with China's Shuai Zhang.

Aryna Sabalenka needed to use every trick in her book to beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the quarter-finals of the 2025 Australian Open. Prior to this match, Sabalenka was barely challenged by any

Two-time defending champion Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus owns the ... and No. 27 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia routed Germany's Laura Siegemund 6-1, 6-2. The later Friday slate was due to ...

Naomi Osaka, a two-time champion in Australia, stopped playing because of a strained abdominal muscle after dropping the first set of her match against Tokyo Olympics gold medalist Belinda Bencic.

Aryna Sabalenka is aiming for a rare three-peat and will face Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova to confirm her spot in the semi-finals of Australian Open 2025.

Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus celebrates after defeating Clara Tauson of Denmark in their third round match at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, Friday, Jan. 17, 2025.

Madison Keys may have won the title at the 2025 Australian Open but there were a myriad of players leaving Melbourne who can leave with their heads held high.

During the first week of the year’s inaugural major, it’s fitting that youthful energy coursed through the 2025 Australian Open. The conventional wisdom is (was?) that the modern game is so physical that only fully mature tennis players are capable of success—no more.