Marin Cilic was superb on serve and played with great focus on Thursday night to become the first Croatian to reach the Australian Open final, which represents his third Grand Slam championship title match (also 2014 US Open, 2017 Wimbledon). The 29-year-old, competing in a semi-final at Melbourne Park for the second time (also 2010), used his big-match experience at key moments to defeat Kyle Edmund of Great Britain 6-2, 7-6(4), 6-2 in two hours and 18 minutes on Rod Laver Arena. "I think in the second set I was a bit up and down with my game and not getting enough returns back," Cilic told Jim Courier, in an on-court interview. "He started to serve quite good. I stayed...
Watch as Roger Federer whips Bill Gates into tennis-playing shape ahead of the Match For Africa 5 in San Jose on 5 March. Photo and video credit: Match For Africa 5.
Watch highlights as Marin Cilic beats Kyle Edmund to advance to the 2018 Australian Open final. Watch more video and live matches at www.ausopen.com. Highlights not available in Aus., NZ or Canada and only available in Europe and USA 24 hours after completion of the match. Photo Credit: Cameron Spencer/Getty Images
Oliver Marach and Mate Pavic extended their winning streak in 2018 and are riding on the crest of a wave in Melbourne. The seventh-seeded team from Austria and Croatia used their collective experience on Thursday to book a place in the Australian Open final after overcoming Japan’s Ben Mclachlan and Jan-Lennard Struff of Germany 4-6, 7-5, 7-6(4) in two hours and 26 minutes. Marach and Pavic battled back from a 1/3 deficit in the deciding set tie-break, putting Mclachlan and Struff under pressure to commit four groundstroke errors – two forehand and two backhand – as the seventh seeds won six of the next seven points. Marach, 37, and 24-year-old Pavic are now 13 matches unbeaten this year. Prior to...
Football fanatic Kyle Edmund talks about his love for Liverpool FC and the time he got to meet Kenny Dalglish on a visit to Anfield in this edition of My Story, delivered by FedEx.
