Craig Tiley

By AFP MELBOURNE: Australian Open chief Craig Tiley on Saturday advised Novak Djokovic's family to be "really careful" of people using the tournament's global exposure as a platform for "disruptive" purposes. It…

MELBOURNE: An Australian Open like no other began in controversy with the deportation of Novak Djokovic but culminated in one of the greatest comebacks in tennis history by Rafael Nadal on Sunday. Throw in Ashleigh Barty becoming the first…

MELBOURNE: Activists handed out 1,000 "Where is Peng Shuai?" T-shirts to spectators ahead of the Australian Open women's final Saturday to highlight concern for the Chinese tennis star. More than a week after security staff ordered…

NEW DELHI: The Australian Open this time has been in the news even before the tournament started. Thanks largely to the Novak Djokovic visa row and also the Peng Shuai story. Already rocked by the Djokovic fiasco days before it began, the…

MELBOURNE: Australian Open chief Craig Tiley said the Novak Djokovic saga will not define the 2022 tournament but that he regrets how the volatile situation took the focus off the Grand Slam and players leading up to the Melbourne Park…

Novak Djokovic's bid to get around rules requiring players at the Australian Open to be vaccinated against COVID-19 is still in limbo. Two panels approved his request for a medical exemption in order to enter Victoria state _ where the…

World number one Novak Djokovic was languishing in a Melbourne detention centre since Thursday morning after having his Australian visa cancelled over his Covid-19 vaccine status. Now he is a free man. And yet the fate of his 2022…

MELBOURNE: Tennis world number one Novak Djokovic launches a make-or-break court battle on Monday to stay in Melbourne and defend his Australian Open title, arguing he has an all-clear because of a positive coronavirus test in December.…

MELBOURNE: Australian Open chief Craig Tiley on Sunday blamed conflicting and quickly changing directives in a "challenging environment" for the confusion that resulted in tennis star Novak Djokovic being refused entry to Australia on a…

MELBOURNE: Australia's tennis chief boasted in an internal video leaked Saturday of his team's "unbelievable job" despite a visa crisis engulfing the men's world number one, Novak Djokovic. Three days after Australian border agents tore up…