Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece plays a forehand return to Alex Michelsen of the U.S. during their first round match at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, Monday, Jan ...

St. Kilda Beach—selfies at sunset Kooyong Tennis Club—the previous home to the Australian Open is like a museum to the sport My time at the AO was limited to the first few days of the tournament.

The Australian Open also doesn’t treat tennis like a fragile museum piece, never to be touched or tweaked because ‘that’s not the way it’s done’, or one of those other haughty phrases ...

He slept till about 1:30 p.m. before making his way back to Melbourne Park, where he hit tennis balls basically standing still for 45 minutes and endured massage and physiotherapy for five hours.