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Toby Price has become the first Australian winner in Dakar Rally history after claiming an emphatic victory in the motorbike category. The 28-year-old from the NSW Hunter Valley finished 39 …

Competition for spots has made players “pull their finger out” at Cronulla training – and maybe help the re-signed Jack Bird put his hand up for NSW Origin duty. Sharks …

Twenty-four hours after being at odds with tournament organisers, two-time Sydney International winner Viktor Troicki has promised to come back to Olympic Park. The world No.22 became just the fourth …

Viktor Troicki has outlasted Grigor Dimitrov in an epic 82-minute third set to become just the fourth player in the Open era to claim back-to-back Sydney International titles. The world …

Hobart International champion Alize Cornet wants the title to act as a ranking springboard for 2016. The French world No.42 on Saturday won her fifth WTA title, thumping Canadian Eugenie …

A year older and wiser, Nick Kyrgios says he’s ready for anything as he plots a stylish encore to his 2015 charge to the Australian Open quarter-finals. Kyrgios last year …

The Sydney Roosters have reportedly signed Brisbane NRL centre Dale Copley. The 24-year-old told Broncos teammates on Saturday morning he’d signed with the Roosters who are expected to announce the …

World No.1 Novak Djokovic is the red-hot favourite to continue his stranglehold on the Australian Open, but Roger Federer says rankings will count for little at the business end of …

Eugenie Bouchard blamed family dramas for her Hobart International final thumping, but the former world No.5 says she’ll be right for the Australian Open. On comeback from injury, Bouchard lost …

Spain’s Roberto Bautista Agut will head to the Australian Open boosted by his ability to negotiate a tough path to New Zealand’s ASB Classic crown. The final itself, which ended …

Roger Federer has revealed how Lleyton Hewitt dumped him as a junior doubles partner at the Australian Open way back when. Career-long friends who first clashed as 15-year-olds at the …

France’s Alize Cornet has ended Eugenie Bouchard’s perfect week with a straight sets win in the final of the Hobart International. Cornet delivered a polished performance on Saturday, thrashing Bouchard …

Serena Williams insists she is “120, 130 per cent” ready to defend her Australian Open crown despite suffering another apparent injury scare. After withdrawing from the Hopman Cup with knee …

His game face well and truly on, Lleyton Hewitt says he can “absolutely” make a fairytale deep run in his Australian Open swansong. Hewitt’s immediate focus is firmly on seeing …

The AFL put “spin” first and fairness last as it tried to control the ASADA investigation into Essendon, former coach James Hird says. He also said his trust was broken …

Eugenie Bouchard and Alize Cornet will put their Australian Open ambitions aside when they contest the final of the Hobart International on Saturday. Former world No.5 Bouchard from Canada is …

Toby Price is one stage away from becoming the first Australian to win the Dakar Rally, holding a huge lead in the motorbike category going into the final day. The …

EUTERS – Lamenting the “boring” state of the women’s game, Australian tennis legend Margaret Smith Court says she expects Serena Williams to break her all-time grand slam singles record. Smith …