A four-time Grand Slam champion, Osaka returned from maternity leave last year and lost in the first or second round of all ...

Defending champion Aryna Sabalenka survived a first Australian Open test, but last year’s beaten finalist Zheng Qinwen ...

Muchova defeated Aryna Sabalenka, Petra Martic, Beatriz Haddad Maia, and Maria Sakkari to make her maiden WTA 1000 final. However, she lost to American Coco Gauff in the final. Karolína Muchova ...

Fourteen seeded players, including last year’s finalists Aryna Sabalenka and Zheng Qinwen, take center stage as the top half ...

Defending champion Aryna Sabalenka survived a first Australian ... Garcia by coming from a set down to see off 20th seed Karolina Muchova 1-6 6-1 6-3. It was payback for Osaka after she lost ...

Aryna Sabalenka backed Clara Tauson to break ... last weekend but impressed in victories over Caroline Garcia and Karolina Muchova. “It was a little hectic trying to manage it, because obviously ...

Aryna Sabalenka survives first Australian ... over Caroline Garcia by coming from a set down to see off 20th seed Karolina Muchova 1-6 6-1 6-3. Her draw does not get any easier with former top ...

Zheng Qinwen looks dejected during her loss to Laura Siegemund (Asanka Brendon Ratnayake/AP) Defending champion Aryna Sabalenka ... to see off 20th seed Karolina Muchova 1-6 6-1 6-3.

Osaka rallied past 20th-seeded Karolina Muchova 1-6 ... Two-time defending champion Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus powered into the third round, beating Spain's Jessica Bouzas Maneiro 6-3, 7-5.