Aryna Sabalenka is the 2025 Brisbane International champion after surviving a major scare by coming back from a set down to beat 107th-ranked qualifier Polina Kudermetova 4-6 6-3 6-2.  When the final started, there wasn’t anything particularly surprising as the top seed claimed a break and jumped to an early 3-1 lead and also had…

Naomi Osaka’s start to the 2025 tennis season has taken a distressing turn. The four-time Grand Slam champion and former world No. 1 was forced to withdraw mid-match during the final of the ASB Classic in Auckland on Sunday, raising concerns about her fitness ahead of the Australian Open. Osaka had been in commanding form…

Rafael Campos, the man who won the Butterfield Bermuda Championship last November, is motivated to do amazing things at The Sentry as well. This is a tournament where the winners of the tournament and qualified players for the Tour Championship from the previous year participate. Although he expected not to be part of this spectacle,…

Viktor Hovland continues to make headlines and has just announced, for the second time in just over a year, his separation from his coach, Joe Mayo, at the dawn of the 2025 season on the PGA Tour. A few days after being the victim of a domestic accident during the Christmas holidays which caused him…

Iga Swiatek didn’t hide her happiness after defeating Elena Rybakina at the United Cup as the Pole acknowledged that it was extremely important for her to beat the Kazakh on a faster surface where she usually struggles in this particular matchup. On Saturday, the world No. 2 overcame the 2022 Wimbledon champion 7-6 (5) 6-4…

Novak Djokovic kicked off the new season at the ATP 250 event in Brisbane. The Serb competed at this event for the first time since 2009 and failed to chase the milestone 100th ATP title. Novak suffered a 7-6, 6-3 defeat to world no. 293 Reilly Opelka! It was Djokovic’s toughest defeat in terms of…

Former Grand Slam semifinalist CoCo Vandeweghe says she would be “surprised” if Goran Ivanisevic sat in Elena Rybakina’s box at the Australian Open after everything that happened in the last couple of days.  This week, the Kazakh tennis star announced that she was re-hiring Stefano Vukov for 2025.  But then, The Athletic reported that the…

Nick Kyrgios dismissed a tennis insider’s report by simply acknowledging that he can’t be a part of ESPN’s coverage for the Australian Open when he is set to compete at the tournament.  While sidelined, the 2022 Wimbledon runner-up had multiple broadcasting gigs as he covered the Australian Open, Wimbledon, as well as the US Open. …

After a poor campaign at the Davis Cup Finals in Malaga in November, Spain will start the 2025 campaign in the first Qualifiers round in Switzerland. David Ferrer will announce the initial squad in the upcoming days, and he is certainly not a happy camper! The Spanish Davis Cup captain can not rely on three key…

LIV Golf leaders took advantage of the break by working diligently on new projects. Already a few months ago, they announced that they would take a big step, with the desire to make this story even more popular. Judging by some data, the Saudi-backed Tour has made progress in recent months, but the leaders of…