Tag: Sydney

The former US Open champion also crashed out of the first round in Brisbane last week and local hopes the 28-year-old could be Australia's...

Caroline Wozniacki beat Poland's Urszula Radwanska 6-1, 6-2 in hot conditions Sunday in the first round of the Sydney International. After starting the season with...

The women's field for next year's Sydney International is edging towards the full suite of the world's top 10 players, but Maria Sharapova looks...

The groundsman, the commentators, the general manager who played at the Wanderers on March 12, 2006, all spoke about the resemblance of the pitch...

Italian maestro Alessandro Del Piero scored his first goal in the Australian A-league Saturday but it was not enough to prevent his Sydney FC...

It all started in Sydney with the first Games of the new millennium, in the year 2,000 – with turning the opening ceremony into...

A Chinese national was among two people arrested when drugs worth Aus$128 million (US$133 million) were seized in Sydney, Australian police said on Friday. The...

Victoria Azarenka ended Li Na's unbeaten two-year run at the Sydney International with a fighting three-set victory in the final on Friday. The Belarusian...

World number one Caroline Wozniacki and her chief rankings rival Petra Kvitova had demanding three-set introductions to the Sydney International in their first official...

World number nine, Marion Bartoli of France, defeated 20-years-old, Polona Hercog of Slovenia, in the first round of Apia Sydney International. Both contestants locked...

A passenger miraculously survived a light plane crash into the sea off Sydney after an onlooker plunged into the ocean in a rescue attempt,...

Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman are expected to be among the first Australian stars to feature when waxworks museum Madame Tussauds opens a venue...

Former world number one Tiger Woods will tee off in Sydney for the first time in 15 years after being confirmed Monday as a...

HONG KONG - Australia's Opera House was the first of many global landmarks to go dark on Saturday as 'Earth Hour' got under way with hundreds of millions of people around the world set to switch off their lights. The Eiffel Tower in Paris and the world's tallest building in Dubai will also have their lights turned off for 60 minutes as part of the remarkable event in which people reflect in darkness about how to fight global warming.
"The amount of power that's saved during that

I am very fortunate to have gotten the opportunity to travel to Australia for a few weeks starting last week, to see the Medibank International tennis tournament at Sydney, and then the Australian Open in Melbourne starting next week. As this is my first time in Australia.
I thought I would add a bit of tourist flavour to the my dispatches from here. Having arrived in Sydney Monday afternoon after an energy sapping 17-hour journey from Lahore via Bangkok, I was incapable of doing

SYDNEY - China's Li Na upset two-time champion Kim Clijsters on Friday to win the Sydney International title and her fourth career WTA crown. Eighth seed Li recovered from going behind 0-5 in the opening set to rally for a convincing 7-6 (7/3), 6-3 victory in 1hr 30min.
It was her second WTA title in Australia after winning the Gold Coast event in 2008 and last year she was a surprise semi-finalist at the Australian Open. Li will stay at her 11th ranking despite the win, while

SYDNEY - Two-time champion Kim Clijsters will play China's Li Na in the final of the Sydney International after a marathon three-set victory on Thursday. Clijsters struggled early before storming home in a final set tiebreaker to overcome unseeded Russian Alisa Kleybanova, 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7/1) in 2hr 39min. The Belgian third seed will now take on Li, who earlier wore down Serbian qualifier Bojana Jovanovski 7-6 (7/5), 6-3 in 1hr 40min. Clijsters, 27, who won here in 2003 and 2007, will