As the New Year celebrations come to an end, excitement builds for the first tennis major of the season, the 2025 Australian Open. The Grand Slam tournament starts Saturday in the United States ...

The day's first match on the Rod Laver Arena at the start of the sixth day of the championships was hardly vintage tennis ... really tough for serving, the balls are heavy and the surface slow ...

Jacob Fearnley is through to the third round REUTERS He now looks on course to replace Norrie as the new British No 2 in the coming weeks unless the 29-year-old can turn things around quickly. British ...

The balls were obviously not created with canines in mind. But that hasn’t stopped them from becoming beloved dog toys. You’ve probably seen a dog bounding after a tennis ball at one point or ...

A stock image of a Staffordshire bull terrier trying to get a tennis ball. The dog in the video is said to be obsessed with balls. A stock image of a Staffordshire bull terrier trying to get a ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A tennis ball launched at 230 km/h against your wrist isn’t a pleasant experience. Just ask Ben Shelton, who bore the brunt of ...

It was the wince felt across the globe. Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard’s 230km/h thunderbolt serve crashed through Ben Shelton’s defences and straight into his right hand, prompting the American ...

Back in 2022, the Tennis Australia's forward-thinking management released 6,776 images of tennis balls as digital NFTs. Each one sold for 0.067 in the ethereum cryptocurrency , about $278 AUD at ...

The scary moment occurred at Melbourne Park while the ball kid was carrying the Aboriginal flag in a guard of honour behind Aussie tennis great John Newcombe. In the clip, Newcombe can be seen ...

Rapid half-centuries from Kusal Mendis, Pathum Nissanka and Janith Liyanage put Sri Lanka on course to a substantial total, before an electric new-ball spell from Asitha Fernando wrecked New Zealand’s ...

So why had Medvedev given up hope this time? He felt the tennis balls were different than they used to be, and the change had sapped tennis of its old joy. "I have this every day, day in, day out, ...