US Open preview for the Aussies

The US Open tennis is starting today at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. There will be 10 Australian men and three Australian women lining up in singles action. The draw was cruel to two pairings. Good mates, Nick Kyrgios and Thanasi Kokkinakis are drawn to play each other in the opening round.…

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Kyrgios into maiden grand slam singles final after Nadal withdraws from Wimbledon

The highly anticipated semifinal match between Canberra’s Nick Kyrgios and 22-time Grand Slam singles champion, Rafael Nadal won’t go ahead after Nadal announced his withdrawal from the tournament. Despite being troubled by a stomach injury in his quarterfinal match against Taylor Fritz, and coming through that match, Nadal made the tough decision to withdraw. “I…

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Kyrgios reaches first Grand Slam singles semifinal

Australia’s Nick Kyrgios has let his racquet do the talking as he advanced to his first-ever semifinal, and he has done it on the hallowed turf of Wimbledon. In a controlled match, it was Kyrgios that defeated Chile’s world no. 43 Christian Garin in straight sets. It didn’t look like that might happen after Garin…

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Kyrgios and Tomljanovic into Wimbledon quarterfinals

Once they were Australian tennis’ golden couple when Ajla Tomljanovic and Nick Kyrgios were dating. That romance ended long ago. Also long ago we saw Kyrgios burst onto the scene at Wimbledon en route to a quarterfinal appearance. That was 2014 when the then world no. 144 defeated world no. 1 at the time, Rafael…

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Golden day for the Aussies at Wimbledon

Australian tennis player Ajla Tomljanovic during the 2020 Australian Open tennis

Day six at Wimbledon saw four Australians in action across the Ladies and Gentlemen’s singles round three draws. At that stage of the tournament, it is rare to see them all come out as winners, but that is what happened. First, it was Ajla Tomljanovic that came back from 2-6 in the first set against…

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A cruel end for Zverev against Nadal at the French Open

Germany’s world no. 3 was in an epic battle with world no. 5 and 13-time Roland Garros champion Rafa Nadal when things went horribly wrong. Embed from Getty Images Late in the second set big German was running to his right when his foot got caught on the red clay and he badly twisted his…

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Kubler the lone Aussie male into round two at Roland Garros

Going into the men’s singles round one at the French Open the Australian contingent consisted of six automatic qualifiers, a wild card, and a qualifier. After round one was played across the opening three days it was the qualifier, Jason Kubler that stood alone as a winner. The draw treated Kubler kindly with the world…

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