Kerber upsets Williams to win Australian title

Johanna Konta is looking forward to some time with her family and sleeping in her own bed after the Briton’s whirlwind run to the Australian Open semi-finals.

The 24-year-old from Alexandria, West Dunbartonshire, edged out Belgium’s Joachim Gerard as he played the first grand slam singles final of his tennis career.

He and Soares, who linked up at the start of this season, will face the experienced duo of Canada’s Daniel Nestor and Czech Radek Stepanek on Saturday. Andy Murray was in the stands at Rod Laver Arena watching the match, which didn’t finish until 1 a.m.

Australian wildcard entry Oliver Anderson has won the boys singles title with a 6-2, 1-6, 6-1 win over No. 7-seeded Jurabek Karimov of Uzbekistan. “I don’t know why you’re here taking photos”. They started off strong but couldn’t match their impressive play from the opening set.

Djokovic underlined his physical superiority as he recovered from a set down to win 6-7 (2/7), 7-6 (7/3), 6-3, 6-2 and become the first man in the Open era to win three Australian Open titles in a row.

Jamie Murray wants to make it third time lucky after he lost with former partner John Peers in the finals at both Wimbledon and the US Open past year. “I think someone like Novak is I think well on his way trying to accomplish that”.

Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon was one of the first to offer congratulations to Murray and Soares on Twitter. “I’m pretty happy with what we’ve achieved so far”.

Victory for Andy would see him add to his 2013 Wimbledon and 2012 US Open grand slam titles.

It was so almost three Grand Slams in a day but Reid and partner Shingo Kunieda couldn’t seal the doubles title, despite being 5-0 up in the third set.

He also won Olympic gold in 2012 and recently rounded off 2015 by steering Great Britain to its first Davis Cup title in nearly 80 years.

They came along to practice the other day at Melbourne Park and had a request that dad do a trick where he looks one way and hits the other.

“I’m not surprised that we clicked so quick”, Soares said.

The final turned out to be a battle of mental and physical strength as the two battled for five hours and 53 minutes, the longest finals of a Grand Slam event in history, according to the Associated Press account.

While Murray is attempting to become the first man in the post-1968 Open era to win the Australian Open after losing four finals, Djokovic has been sweeping all before him.