Category: <span>Sports</span>

Ukraine’s world No.29 Dayana Yastremska is stuck in hard lockdown ahead of the Australian Open despite being banned from playing due to a positive drug test. Yastremska, 20, tested positive for a metabolite of mesterolone, a synthetic testosterone, in a November 24 out-of-competition urine sample. She was provisionally suspended from January 7, ruling her out...

Rising Spanish star Paula Badosa has become the first Australian Open player to announce she has tested positive for COVID-19 ahead of the season’s first grand slam. The 23-year-old has been isolating in Melbourne in mandatory 14-day hotel quarantine after two co-passengers on a tournament-chartered flight from Abu Dhabi subsequently tested positive. She was on...

Several Australian Open tennis players have expressed frustration at being confined to their hotel rooms for two weeks after people on their flights tested positive for coronavirus. Dozens of players will not be able to train as much as other competitors in the lead-up to the tournament, which begins in Melbourne on 8 February. At...

Former world No.1 Andy Murray has reportedly tested positive for coronavirus just as he was preparing to fly to Australia in preparation for the country’s Open. The 33-year-old Scottish tennis giant has tested positive to the virus and is isolating at his home in Surrey in England, according to reports. He was supposed to fly...

The Gabba will operate at 50 per cent crowd capacity for the fourth and final Test of the summer between Australia and India. It means around 20,000 fans will be able to attend the cricket in Brisbane on Friday but supporters will have to wear masks whenever they are not seated. “The Gabba will be...

Masks have become mandatory for cricket fans attending the SCG Test after the MCG was listed as a potential COVID-19 exposure site. The risk involved with supporters flocking to a major sporting event was laid bare on Wednesday when the Victorian government revealed a man infected with coronavirus attended day two of the second Test....

Mitchell Pearce has quit as captain of Newcastle after revelations he sent inappropriate messages to a female staffer at the NRL club. The star playmaker has told his Knights teammates of his decision after returning to the club from a Christmas break this week. He is set to face the media on Thursday. Pearce’s wedding...

Australia may currently hold the lead in this Test, but make no mistake about it, it is India’s to lose from hereon in. Indian captain Ajinkya Rahane would have been disappointed to see his side lose their last five wickets for 32 runs to start the day, but the response from the bowlers was superb....

Roger Federer is reportedly withdrawing from the Australian Open while he continues to recover from knee surgery. Tony Godsick – Federer’s long-time representative and CEO of their management company, TEAM8 – said the former world No.1 won’t make the trip to Australia to play in the rescheduled Open in February. “Roger has decided not to...

Travis Head could be the man now in the Boxing Day selection gun according to Test great Mike Hussey as the fitness of opener David Warner remains under a cloud. Both Hussey and former keeper Brad Haddin believe selectors will stick with young all-rounder Cameron Green for the MCG showdown with India which means a...