Naomi Osaka's Australian Open championship moved her up one spot to No. 2 in the WTA rankings Monday, while men's finalist Daniil Medvedev rose to a career-best No. 3 behind winner Novak Djokovic...
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A quick look at the last day of the 2021 Australian Open:
Novak Djokovic won his ninth Australian Open championship and 18th Grand Slam title overall with a 7-5,...
Naomi Osaka already is a star at age 23. She has the four Grand Slam titles, the record-breaking endorsement deals and the willingness to speak her mind to prove it.
Jennifer Brady's Australian adventure began with 15 days of hard quarantine — stuck in her hotel room because she might have been exposed to COVID-19 while traveling to the country — and ended...
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — As Naomi Osaka strode through the Champion's Walk leading to the court for the Australian Open final — headphones on her ears, racket bag strapped to her back — she...
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The Latest on the Australian Open tennis tournament (all times local):
7:46 p.m.
Naomi Osaka of Japan and Jennifer Brady of the United States have started...
Whether or not Naomi Osaka claims the Australian Open championship — and make no mistake, she will be expected to win — this much seems certain: Tennis has a new dominant force.
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A quick look at the Australian Open:
LOOKAHEAD TO SATURDAY
Naomi Osaka is attempting to win her fourth Grand Slam singles title and her second at the...
Maybe Naomi Osaka is winning because she has a positive attitude, or maybe she has a positive attitude because she's winning.
Either way, it's working. Osaka won her 20th match in a row when...
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — As Serena Williams walked off the court after her latest so-close-yet-so-far bid for a 24th Grand Slam title ended with a loss to Naomi Osaka at the Australian Open,...
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A quick look at the Australian Open:
LOOKAHEAD TO THURSDAY
Naomi Osaka has won 19 consecutive matches but none of those wins came against Serena Williams....
Serena Williams agrees with everyone else that her footwork and movement are better these days than they've been for a bit — and that's a big reason she's closing in on what would be a...
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A quick look at the Australian Open:
LOOKAHEAD TO TUESDAY
Serena Williams goes up against Simona Halep in the quarterfinals — their 12th meeting on tour in...
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A quick look at the Australian Open:
LOOKAHEAD TO SUNDAY
Serena Williams continues her quest for a record-tying 24th Grand Slam singles title when she plays...
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A quick look at the Australian Open:
LOOKAHEAD TO FRIDAY
Top-ranked Novak Djokovic takes on American Taylor Fritz in one of the high-intensity matches set...
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A quick look at the Australian Open:
LOOKAHEAD TO WEDNESDAY
Serena Williams continues her quest for a record 24th Grand Slam singles title when she plays...
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Serena Williams arrived ready to race at the Australian Open.
In a colorful one-legged catsuit she said was inspired by former Olympic champion Florence Griffith...
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Grand Slam tournament winners Naomi Osaka and Serena Williams withdrew from their tuneup tournaments, their focus already on the Australian Open, well before Alexander...
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Majors are what matters at this stage for Serena Williams.
After agreeing Friday to the notion that she could consider her next Grand Slam title to be her...
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Erima Nishimura sure picked a decent day to bring her 9-year-old son, Yoshiharu, to Melbourne Park for the first time to see some tennis.
ADELAIDE, Australia (AP) — Serena Williams was preparing to play Naomi Osaka at an Adelaide exhibition tournament on Friday. But first things first — after 14 days in quarantine because of the...
Three-time Grand Slam singles champion Naomi Osaka has invested in the North Carolina Courage of the National Women's Soccer League, citing a desire to support women as role models and...
ADELAIDE, Australia (AP) — Ash Barty is set to return to the tennis court for something other than practice for the first time in 11 months.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — As the NBA neared its restart in late July, its players vowed to keep the calls for social justice reform at the forefront in the wake of the police killings of George Floyd...
With tennis, like so much of the world, shut down because of the coronavirus pandemic, Naomi Osaka found herself with time to read and think.
Iga Swiatek took note when Naomi Osaka was accumulating three Grand Slam trophies by age 22.
Swiatek also was paying attention, of course, when Bianca Andreescu won her first major at 19....
How well do you know the French Open, usually each year’s second Grand Slam tennis tournament but the third and last of 2020? Give this AP quiz a try:
Serena Williams bypassed any clay-court tuneup tournaments ahead of the French Open, so her first match at Roland Garros will be her first competition since the U.S. Open.
PARIS (AP) — U.S. Open champion Naomi Osaka has pulled out of the French Open because of an injured left hamstring.
Osaka joins defending champion Ash Barty in skipping the French Open,...
TOKYO (AP) — Japan is celebrating Naomi Osaka's victory at the U.S. Open, especially her array of corporate sponsors.
But like much of Japan, they are more muted in backing — or...
NEW YORK (AP) — Naomi Osaka is at the top of tennis right now, poised to lead the way on the court -- and off it -- for years to come.
Still just 22, she already owns three Grand Slam titles...
NEW YORK (AP) — After one errant forehand in the first set of the U.S. Open final, Naomi Osaka looked at her coach in the mostly empty Arthur Ashe Stadium stands with palms up, as if to say, “What...
NEW YORK (AP) — LOOKAHEAD TO SATURDAY
When tennis resumed last month from a five-month hiatus prompted by the coronavirus pandemic, it was impossible to know exactly what to expect. Turns...
NEW YORK (AP) — When tennis resumed last month from a five-month hiatus prompted by the coronavirus outbreak, it was impossible to know exactly what to expect.