Three-time Grand Slam champion Stan Wawrinka met with a disappointing ... glory at the Australian Open in 2014 by defeating Rafael Nadal in the final. Seeded eighth, he overcame Andrey Golubev ...

Wawrinka, who entered the Australian Open as the tournament's oldest player, showed no signs of his age as he rallied back in the second, converting set point at the fourth attempt

The closest Kyrgios came was a Wimbledon final berth against Djokovic in 2022, which was won by the Serb, in the only final that the 29-year-old made throughout his career. And Kyrgios has since explained he was “f***ed” coming up against not just the ‘Big Four’ but also the high level of the top 15 at the time.

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Jannik Sinner is looking to become only the fifth player in the Open Era to win three consecutive Grand Slams on hard courts with tennis greats Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic among those to have achieved the feat.

The Slam Down Under has been a personal favourite for Djokovic, given that he has won 10 Australian Open titles - the most by any man in the Open era.

Men's singles champions at the Australian Open this century ahead of the tournament starting on Sunday:

Gael Monfils will compete in his 35th ATP final in Auckland. The veteran lost to Novak Djokovic in Brisbane at the beginning of the season and found himself in a tough position in the first match in Auckland.

Then, Rafael Nadal wrote the history of men's tennis, winning his 2nd AO title and his 21st Slam, while Ashleigh Barty won a Slam for the Australian, in Melbourne, after years, in 2022. Then it was the turn of Nole and Sinner, in the last two years, of Sabalenka both in 2023 and 2024.

Gael Monfils has become the second oldest player in more than 30 years to reach the final of an ATP Tour event after beating American Nishesh Basavareddy 7-6 (5), 6-4 in the semifinals at Auckland on Friday aged 38 years,

It has been about four months since Jannik Sinner and Aryna Sabalenka polished off their US Open titles in comfortable fashion. Sinner dropped only two of 23 sets, while Sabalenka dropped only one of 15, and both won their second Slam titles of 2024 on their way to year-end No. 1 rankings.

"I don't know if he's going to be happy with me saying this," Djokovic said ahead of the Australian Open, "but my dad has been trying to retire me for a while now. He understands why I keep going, but he's like: 'What else do you want to do?'"