MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian Open tournament director Craig Tiley defended the decision to hold qualifying matches this week even though Melbourne's air quality was among the worst in...

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Australian tennis player Bernard Tomic was fined his full prize money of 45,000 pounds ($56,500) at Wimbledon on Thursday for not meeting "the required professional...

HOUSTON (AP) — Christian Garin upset No. 2 seed Jeremy Chardy to advance to the quarterfinals in one of the longest matches in US Clay history on Wednesday at the US Men's Clay Court...

HOUSTON (AP) — Marcel Granollers upset Taylor Fritz 6-2, 4-6, 6-2 in the first round of the US Men's Clay Court Championship on Monday.

Granollers, who won the title in 2008, beat No. 5 seed...

UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) — John Isner snapped a six-match losing streak, beating Bernard Tomic 7-6 (7), 6-4 on Wednesday in the second round of the New York Open.

The top-seeded American needed six match points to finish off Tomic for his first victory since last year's Paris Masters. He followed that tournament by dropping all three matches in his first appearance at the season-ending ATP Finals and was 0-2 to start 2019, including a first-round loss at the Australian Open.

UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Paolo Lorenzi of Italy outlasted eighth-seeded American Tennys Sandgren 7-6 (4), 6-7 (4), 6-4 on Monday in the first round of the New York Open.

Sandgren was playing for the first time since the Australian Open. He has lost both matches since winning the ASB Classic in January for his first ATP title.

Also, Australian Bernard Tomic beat Lukas Lacko of Slovakia, 6-4, 6-2. He will next face top-seeded John Isner of the U.S.

How well do you know the Australian Open? Give this quiz a try before play begins at the year's first Grand Slam tennis tournament:

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1st Round: Which of the following players did not win a junior title at the Australian Open?

a.) Andy Roddick

b.) Alexander Zverev

c.) Roger Federer

d.) Bernard Tomic

e.) Stefan Edberg

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2nd Round: Which of these players won the Australian Open after saving at least one match point somewhere along the way?

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Bernard Tomic has beaten Nick Kyrgios in the first career match between two of Australia's most temperamental tennis players.

At the Kooyong Classic exhibition event, Tomic sealed the match with a trick serve between his legs, something that Kyrgios is more noted for doing during a match. The move left Kyrgios laughing and shaking his head.

CHENDU, China (AP) — Second-seeded Hyeon Chung and fourth-seeded Adrian Mannarino both lost Wednesday at the Chengdu Open.

Canadian lucky loser Felix Auger-Aliassime advanced to the quarterfinals by beating Chung 7-6 (2), 5-7, 6-4, while Malek Jaziri upset Mannarino 6-3, 7-6 (5).

Auger-Aliassime saved five of eight break points in the match.

METZ, France (AP) — Jo-Wilfried Tsonga made an unsuccessful return to competition on Tuesday, losing 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-4 to defending champion Peter Gojowczyk of Germany in the first round of the Moselle Open.

Tsonga, a three-time winner in Metz, played his first match since February after recovering from a knee injury.

SYDNEY (AP) — Tennis Australia said Friday that Alex de Minaur has been given Australia's reciprocal wild card into the French Open starting on May 27.

De Minaur, 19, has improved his ATP ranking by almost half in 2018 to move to No. 106, nearly qualifying him for the main draw.

In January, he advanced to the semifinals of the Brisbane International and the Sydney International final before losing in the first round of the Australian Open to Tomas Berdych.

SYDNEY (AP) — A period of personal reflection in a South African jungle has convinced Australian tennis player Bernard Tomic that he's ready to return to the court.

Tomic quit the reality television show "I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!" after only three days, saying that was long enough to reflect and realize "how I played last year and where I should be."

He said his short time in the jungle was his first break from his "fast-paced" lifestyle and gave was "a wake-up call."

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Bernard Tomic's troubles have continued into 2018 with a loss in the last round of qualifying for the Australian Open.

Tomic lost 6-1, 6-7 (5), 6-4 to Lorenzo Sonego on Sunday in the third round of qualifying for the main draw of the season's first major.

It will be the first time in 10 years that Tomic will miss his national championship, where he has a 17-9 win-loss record.

TOKYO (AP) — Ryan Harrison withstood the big serve of Kevin Anderson and advanced to the quarterfinals at the Japan Open on Wednesday by beating the U.S. Open finalist 6-3, 1-6, 7-6 (2).

Anderson landed 24 aces in the match, but the 52nd-ranked American overcame the barrage and will next face top-seeded Marin Cilic.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Alex Di Minaur will make his French Open debut after being granted a wild-card entry into Roland Garros by Tennis Australia on Thursday.

It came under a reciprocal arrangement with the French tennis federation. The 18-year-old Di Minaur joins fellow Australians Nick Kyrgios, Bernard Tomic, Jordan Thompson, John Millman and Thanasi Kokkinakis in the main draw.

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Australia captain Lleyton Hewitt named an unchanged lineup for next month's Davis Cup world group tennis quarterfinal against the United States in Brisbane as former team member Bernard Tomic remained out of favor.

Hewitt stood by Jordan Thompson who won both his singles on debut against the Czech Republic in Australia's most-recent tie, which Tomic chose to miss citing scheduling issues.

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Australia captain Lleyton Hewitt named an unchanged lineup for next month's Davis Cup world group tennis quarterfinal against the United States in Brisbane as former team spearhead Bernard Tomic remained out of favor.

Hewitt stood by Jordan Thompson who won both his singles on debut against the Czech Republic in Australia's most-recent tie, which Tomic chose to miss citing scheduling issues.

HAMILTON, New Zealand (AP) — Australia captain Lleyton Hewitt named an unchanged lineup for next month's Davis Cup world group tennis quarterfinal against the United States in Brisbane as former team spearhead Bernard Tomic remained out of favor.

Hewitt stood by Jordan Thompson who won both his singles on debut against the Czech Republic in Australia's most-recent tie, which Tomic chose to miss citing scheduling issues.

INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP) — American Bjorn Fratangelo upset Australia's Bernard Tomic 6-2, 6-2 on Thursday in the first round of the BNP Paribas Open.

Ranked 112th, Fratangelo advanced to face No. 14 Tomas Berdych.

Adrian Mannarino outlasted Juan Monaco 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-1, and Darian King topped Nikoloz Basilashvili 7-5, 7-5.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Taylor Fritz saved three match points in a third-set tiebreaker to beat No. 8 seed Yen-Hsun Lu 4-6, 7-6 (4), 7-6 (7) on Tuesday night in the first round of the Memphis Open.

Fritz, the runner-up in this event last year, won without ever breaking Lu's serve.

Earlier Tuesday, qualifier Darian King defeated No. 5 seed Bernard Tomic 6-4, 6-4. King, ranked 140th in the world, dropped just 12 points in 10 service games against the 32nd-ranked Tomic.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Nick Kyrgios and Jordan Thompson gave Australia a 2-0 lead after singles victories Friday over their Czech Republic opponents in a Davis Cup World Group first-round match.

The 22-year-old Thompson made his Davis Cup debut by defeating Czech No. 1 Jiri Veseley 6-3, 6-3, 6-4, finishing the match with an ace. Thompson was called into the team when Australia's No. 2-ranked player, Bernard Tomic, made himself unavailable for selection.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Former Wimbledon finalist Sabine Lisicki will play at the Kooyong Classic in January, as women's matches return to the Australian Open warmup event for the first time since 1993.

Organizers on Wednesday said the 2013 Wimbledon runner-up will join Australia's Ajla Tomljanovic and Sorana Cirstea of Romania in women's round-robin play.

SHENZHEN, China (AP) — Defending champion Tomas Berdych advanced to the quarterfinals of the Shenzhen Open by beating Mikhail Kukushkin of Kazakhstan 7-6 (7), 7-6 (4) Thursday.

The top-seeded Czech is trying to reach his first final of the season.

Also, Bernard Tomic defeated Ryan Harrison 6-4, 4-6, 7-5, Thomaz Bellucci beat Thomas Fabbiano 7-6 (2), 7-6 (4), and eighth-seeded Jiri Vesely eliminated Inigo Cervantes 7-6 (2), 6-3.

SYDNEY (AP) — Nick Kyrgios says he's confident of being fit to lead Australia into its Davis Cup tie against Slovakia in Sydney starting Friday.

Kyrgios hasn't played since a hip injury caused him to retire from his third-round match against Illya Marchenko at the U.S. Open nine days ago. But he says the hip is better now and he's "playing probably the best tennis I have."