Adelaide

ADELAIDE - Serbia's Dusan Lajovic is out of the Adelaide tennis tournament after a 7-5, 4-6, 6-3 defeat to Czech Jiri Lehecka in the second round on Wednesday.

Lehecka won after two hours and 20 minutes of play and will face Chilean Nicolas Jarry in the quarter-finals.

ADELAIDE - Serbia's Dusan Lajovic is through to the second round of the Adelaide tennis tournament after defeating Australian Thanasi Kokkinakis 3-6, 6-1, 6-4 on Monday.

World number 52 Lajovic, who won after two hours and 12 minutes of play, is now 4-0 head-to-head against world number 68 Kokkinakis.

In the past year, Djokovic played in the finals of all four Grand Slams and won three - the Australian Open, Roland Garros and the US Open.
With that, he became the tennis player with the most Grand Slam titles in history - 24.
In addition, he won the Masters in Cincinnati and Paris, and the Final Masters in Turin, and he started the year with a triumph in Adelaide.

"So, a four-hour ceasefire, so people can breathe and remember what life is like without bombing before we start bombing them again. It's very cynical and cruel," Francesca Albanese told reporters in Adelaide, Australia, AP reports.

Brazil starts the Women's World Cup trying to remain undefeated in opening matches, and then take superstar Marta deep into her sixth and final tournament.

Talor Gooch became the first golfer to win back-to-back LIV titles after he defeated Spain's Sergio Garcia in the first playoff hole at the LIV Singapore competition on Sunday.

Gooch pocketed $4 million for the victory in the city-state, the same amount he won in his breakthrough in Adelaide last week.

Tiley revealed that Djokovic had a three-centimeter-long torn muscle in the back of his left leg.
Djokovic was injured at the tournament in Adelaide, which he won before the AO, he struggled in the first week in Melbourne, he did not train at all in the days off between matches, which allowed him to hold on until the end and win the trophy again.

Djokovic has been complaining about problems with the back of his left hamstring since the tournament in Adelaide, and on Monday he won the quarterfinals convincingly.
Djokovic moved into a 13th Melbourne Park quarterfinal with a 6-2, 6-1, 6-2 win in just over two hours at Rod Laver Arena on Monday night, against the Australian Alex de Minaur.

The former world number one arrived in a great mood at the place of great success, opening this years competition with Spaniard Roberto Carballes Baeño.

ADELAIDE - Serbia's top-ranked tennis player Novak Djokovic has won the Adelaide ATP tournament after defeating young American Sebastian Korda 6-7 (8-10), 7-6 (7-3), 6-4 in the final on Sunday.

In a dress rehearsal for the Australian Open, Djokovic won after over three hours of play, demonstrating that he is ready to fight for a 10th title in Melbourne.