Australian Open

MELBOURNE - Serbia's Novak Djokovic, the world number one in men's tennis singles, on Tuesday completed his first training session at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne ahead of Australian Open, the season's first Grand Slam tournament.

Reigning champion Djokovic recently arrived in Melbourne from Perth, where he played for Serbia at the United Cup.

The meeting will be held in the building of the General Secretariat of the President of the Republic on Andriev venac.
The confirmation came from the office of the President of Serbia, and the media will be able to record the introductory addresses of Vui and Djokovi.

Australia had cancelled his visa after the State and tennis officials had granted Djokovic a medical exemption to Australia’s strict COVID-19 vaccination policy

This season, Djokovic has won the Australian Open, the French Open and Wimbledon this year, and just needs the US Open crown to complete the set of all four Majors.
He is seven victories away from reaching that goal in New York - his first obstacle will be the Dane Holger Rune, the 145th player in the world.

Greek tennis player Stefanos Tsitsipas (r) poses with Australian chef George Calombaris during day six of the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne, Saturday. Tsitsipas will represent the new generation in their challenge to usurp the old guard when he faces Roger Federer at Melbourne Park on Sunday. [EPA]

Serena Williams completed a clean sweep of her singles matches at the mixed teams Hopman Cup in Perth on Jan. 3 as she prepares for her bid to make Grand Slam history at the Australian Open.

Bulgaria's best tennis player Grigor Dimitrov, will be on the court tomorrow at about 6:00 am Bulgarian time for his third round match of the Australian Open against Russian Andrey Rublev. The match is the third in Rod laver Arena, with matches between Luksika Kumkhum  (Thailand) - Petra Martic (Croatia) and Martha Kostyuk (Ukraine) - Elina Svitolina (Ukraine).

Serena Williams will be ready to make her tennis comeback at the Australian Open with her return to Melbourne for the season’s opening Grand Slam “very likely,” organizers said on Dec. 6.

MELBOURNE - Defending champion Novak Djokovic suffered a shock 7-6, (10-8), 5-7, 2-6, 7-6 (7-5), 6-4 defeat in Thursday's second round of the Australian Open tennis tournament at the hands of world number 117 Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan.

It was Djokovic's first second-round exit from a Grand Slam tournament since 2008.

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The Turkish Tennis Federation has launched talks with world number 17 Australian tennis player Bernard Tomic, in a bid to grant him Turkish citizenship.