For the 31-year-old, this week’s venue is the “St Andrews of US Open”, stirring him into being a part of the year’s third Major. read more

It will be his 16th Major and the third US Open, which is the only Major, where he has not made the cut. read more

The 37-year-old eased past Argentina’s Leonardo Mayer 6-2, 6-3, 6-3 and will face either close friend and Swiss compatriot Stan Wawrinka or Greek sixth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas for a semi-final spot. read more

Teenager Marketa Vondrousova continued to impress at the French Open when she walloped Latvia’s Anastasija Sevastova 6-2 6-0 to reach her maiden Grand Slam quarter-finals on Sunday. read more

Alexander Zverev, bidding to become the first German man to win the Roland Garros title since Henner Henkel in 1937, claimed a 7-6 (7\/4), 6-3, 2-6, 6-7 (5\/7), 6-3 victory in the longest match of the tournament so far at four hours and 11 minutes. read more

Former US Open champion Juan Martin del Potro also features in his first major since finishing runner-up to Novak Djokovic at the 2018 US Open while Simona Halep starts her title defence admitting “the pressure is off”. read more

Woods, who bagged a dramatic 15th major title at the Masters last month, was brought back down to earth with a bump last week after missing the cut at the US PGA Championship. read more

Rome will be Williams’s fourth tournament of the season and the first since being forced to withdraw from the Miami Open in April due to a knee injury. read more

he Indian, an Asian Games bronze medallist, shocked the fancied Australian 7-5 2-6 6-5 in a gruelling two hours and fifty minutes battle at the WTA 125K event. read more

Tiger Woods completed an epic “full circle” comeback from career-threatening injury and scandal by winning the 83rd Masters on Sunday. read more

Ashleigh Barty quit tennis five years ago after finding the mental grind of the tour too much to bear, turning to professional cricket in a bid to find sporting happiness. read more

Melbourne Herald-Sun illustrator Mark Knight’s caricature in September showed a butch and fat-lipped Serena Williams throwing a temper tantrum at last year’s US Open after losing to Naomi Osaka. read more

This year’s Australian Open offered a different picture of the left-handed Czech who did not lose a single set on her way to the final in which she lost to Japan’s Naomi Osaka in three sets on Saturday. read more

Novak Djokovic clinched his record seventh Australian Open title with a straight-sets win over Rafael Nadal of Spain in the summit showdown on Sunday. read more

An imperious Novak Djokovic won a record magnificent seventh Australian Open title by routing Rafael Nadal 6-3, 6-2, 6-3 Sunday with a display of flawless tennis. read more