Defending champion and No. 1 seed Jannik Sinner easily dispatches host country's last hope; Ben Shelton takes on-court interviewers to task.

The left-handed Shelton did some entertaining of his own, including earning cheers by doing a couple of push-ups after tumbling in the concluding tiebreaker, and he reached his se

With the Australian Open heading into its final rounds, all eyes are on men’s no.1 tennis player Jannik Sinner. However, Sinner is facing critics within and beyond his sport for a doping scandal that is still being investigated.

Swiatek will face No. 19 Madison Keys of the U.S. on Thursday night for a berth in the final. The other women’s semifinal is No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka, the two-time defending champion, against her good friend, No. 11 Paula Badosa.

Australian Open semifinals are set. Wednesday's matches finalized the opponents, and there is one American left standing in men's singles: 22-year-old Ben Shelton. Shelton, the No. 21 seed, won a grueling quarterfinal against unseeded Cinderella Lorenzo Sonego,

Jannik Sinner is through to the Australian Open quarterfinals after a drama-filled fourth-round win over Holger Rune. World No. 1 Sinner won in four sets, 6-3. 3-6, 6-3, 6-2, but this did not tell the story of a contest defined by illness.

Defending champion Jannik Sinner put any illness worries to bed by crushing home hope Alex de Minaur in a straight-sets rout to tee up an Australian Open semifinal against Ben Shelton. The Italian world No 1 showed no signs of the health issues that hampered him in his last match to emphatically fly past the eighth seed 6-3,

Jannik Sinner says he is "not taking anything for granted" as he enjoys the experience of playing the Australian Open as the defending champion after reaching the semi-finals.