Another alleged match-fixing story has hit the wires this evening. The NY Times reports the latest suspicious match involves an Australian Open mixed doubles between Lara Arruabarrena and David Marrero against Andrea Hlavackova and Lukasz Kubot.

All the money ($25K or more) went on Hlavackova and Kubot to win and they did. So the issue? Well, people don’t bet that much on mixed doubles. Per the report, comparable mixed …

Gael Monfils in full flight:

Of course he was visited by the trainer right after.

After the 4-set win over Andrey Kuznetsov, he spoke about the dive.

“I will do it. It’s like instinct,” Monfils said. “Like some soccer player, I don’t know how to say it in English, but they jump and they do it. It’s just natural. I always say, people think is like why I …

It was anything but a Serene Sunday in fourth round play on the men’s side at the Australian Open. World No. 1 Novak Djokovic was pushed to five sets in an eventual victory, as was No. 6 seed Tomas Berdych, who set up a meeting with Roger Federer.

The top-seeded Djokovic struggled with his game but eventually outlasted the French hitting wall and No. 14 seed Gilles Simon 6-3, 6-7(1), 6-4, …

World No. 1 Serena Williams and former No. 1 Maria Sharapova will square off in a blockbuster quarterfinal at the Australian Open after both players advanced on Sunday in Melbourne.

Williams was in typical devastating form as she took apart unseeded Russian Margarita Gasparyan 6-2, 6-1. The No. 5-seeded Sharapova had to work a little harder, holding back No. 12 seed Belinda Bencic 7-5, 7-5.

“I played her in the first round …

Simona Halep announced earlier today that she will miss over a month to recover from surgery on her nose to clear up what sounds like a sinus infection.

Halep said the surgery will force her out of Davis Cup, Dubai and Doha. She hopes to be back in the first week of March for her title defense at Indian Wells.

“It comes with great sadness that I’m announcing that I will need …

Gilles Simon nearly pulled off the upset of the day over the World No. 1 Novak Djokovic, but his bid fell short in a 6-3, 6-7(1), 6-4, 4-6, 6-3.

With no one even close to Djokovic until today, Simon talked about what it takes to beat Djokovic among other things.

Q. How would you describe that match? How do you feel at the moment?
GILLES SIMON: I don’t feel good. It was …

It took 4 hours, 32 minutes, but Novak Djokovic advanced in the end beating a spirited Gilles Simon 6-3, 6-7(1), 6-4, 4-6, 6-3. The win put the World No. 1 into his 27th straight Grand Slam quarterfinals (Roger Federer holds the record at 36 straight) and his 9th in a row at the Australian Open where he has won five times.

Djokovic, though, didn’t play his best tennis. Hardly. He sprayed …

The Aussie have a great future in tennis, but it’s going to be a controversial. Nick Kyrgios is a PR nightmare and Bernard Tomic isn’t much better. The lax-looking Tomic advanced yesterday over John Millman, and then afterward took some shots at Roger Federer.

Earlier in the month, Federer commented that Tomic still has a long way from the Top 10.

Tomic then said Saturday that basically Federer is a long …

The lower half of the men’s draw advanced in metronomic fashion on Saturday in Melbourne, with no seeded upsets setting up some blockbuster fourth round matches moving into the weekend.

No. 2 seed Andy Murray led the charge, unaware that his father-in-law had collapsed on another court, defeating No. 32 seed Joao Sousa 6-2, 3-6, 6-2, 6-2.

“At the beginning I think he was extremely aggressive, very intense,” Murray said …

The middle Sunday features one of its best line-ups ever with four former champions in action. The women are on early with Maria Sharapova and Serena Williams just one win from a quarterfinal collision.

Sharapova begins the day with a first-time meeting against rising 18-year-old Belinda Bencic.

“An impressive player,” Sharapova said. “A newer generation that’s already established herself in the past season, beaten a lot of top players. It’s a tough …

Unseeded Czech Barbora Strycova was the belle of the Australian Open ball on Saturday, moving into the fourth round after a 6-3, 6-2 upset over world No. 3 Garbine Muguruza Blanco of Spain.

“The plan was just to play the best tennis I can and hang in there,” said Strycova, who hadn’t won a set off Muguruza in two previous meetings.

Muguruza pitched in with 32 unforced errors to Strycova’s 16. The …

In a frightening scene, Ana Ivanovic’s coach Nigel Sears collapsed Saturday night at the Australian Open. The incident took place after Ivanovic won the first game of the second set over Madison Keys. Sears, who per ESPN TV reports, wasn’t feeling well before the match, got up from his coaching box to leave the stadium but fell going up the staircase on the way out.

The match was stopped for about …

Every player has his quirks. Rafael Nadal picks his pants, arranges his water bottles just so. Roger Federer doesn’t sweat, he likes to put his hair back under his headband and Andy Murray makes odd jaw movements from time to time.

But what about Novak Djokovic? The world No. 1 does that thing with his eyes when he;s returning serve, but more interestingly he’s one of the few players who consumes …

Meet the last Australian standing, Daria Gavrilova. The spunky 21-year-old just became an Australian citizen, and now she’s broken through to her first Grand Slam fourth round after outlasting Kristina Mladenovic 11-9 in the final set.

After the match, she gave one of the best on court interviews:

“I am very emotional,” Gavrilova said. “I mean, you can see all my emotions. I get frustrated with myself, and I guess I show …

Eight seeded matches, and eight seeded winners without upsets were featured Friday at the Australian Open, where title contenders Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer put potentially tough opponents in their place.

The world No. 1 Djokovic defeated No. 28 seed Andreas Seppi, who last year upset Federer in Melbourne, 6-1, 7-5, 7-6(6).

“It’s not easy to stay with him on the baseline, you know,” said Djokovic who was made to work in …