AUSTRALIA – A week back Novak Djokovic was not sure if he could play a match at all due to his injured left hamstring, but now that he has recovered, he thinks he can win the Australian Open. A year ago, he was kicked out of the country before the Australian Open because he was not vaccinated against Covid-19.
MELBOURNE – Leylah Fernandez of Canada is out of women’s singles at the Australian Open after dropping a second-round match to Caroline Garcia of France 7-6 (5), 7-5 yesterday.
Montreal – Novak Djokovic, 35-year-old from Serbia, withdrew from the upcoming hard-court tournament in Montreal because he cannot enter Canada for being unvaccinated and also miss out on the US Open later this month. He missed the Australian Open in January as well.
AUSTRALIA (AP) Ash Barty surprisingly retired from tennis at age 25 while ranked No. 1 and less than two months after winning the Australian Open for her third Grand Slam singles title. “I just know at the moment, in my heart, for me as a person, this is right,” Barty said, her voice shaky at times, during a six-minute video …
DUBAI – Novak Djokovic defeated Lorenzo Musetti 6-3, 6-3 to open the Dubai Championships yesterday. It was his first match of the year after he was deported from the country for being unvaccinated before Australian Open last month. Djokovic has won the tournaments in the UAE five times.
Melbourn (AFP) Indian former doubles world number one Sania Mirza said on Wednesday she will retire from tennis at the end of this season with injuries taking their toll. It came after the 35-year-old, regarded as her country’s greatest women’s tennis player, bowed out of the Australian Open in the first round with her partner Nadiia Kichenok of Ukraine. “I …
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Canadian teenager Leylah Fernandez had a bad day as she was bundled out in the first round by Maddie Inglis yesterday. The 6-4 6-2 loss to the Australian wildcard marked the third straight year Fernandez had fallen at the first hurdle at the year’s opening Grand Slam.
