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Almost exactly 12 months after ending her hiatus from the sport, the former French Open semi-finalist has stunned fans on social media after completing a stunning transformation.

Rafa Nadal finally brought two decades at the summit of professional tennis to an end last week.

The 22-time Grand Slam champion's final act in the sport was a 6-4, 6-4 defeat at the hands of the Netherlands' Botic van de Zandschulp in the Davis Cup in Malaga.

The Aussie tennis champion, 41, took to Instagram to give an insight into her night at the premiere of her new documentary, titled Unbreakable: The Jelena Dokic Story.

Former Australian tennis champion Jelena Dokic's awful relationship with her father is well documented - and now she has opened up about the hole on her tennis resume that bothers her to this day.

Jelena Dokic turned heads at the premiere of her documentary Unbreakable at Brisbane Film Festival on Sunday.

Former Australian tennis champion Jelena Dokic says she does not blame her father Damir for the abuse she suffered as a young player.

Jelena Dokic has revealed she's returned to her 2016 weight in a powerful new Instagram post.

Raducanu shot to superstardom almost overnight, when she lifted the US Open singles title in New York three years ago, having come into the tournament as a qualifier and No 150 in the world.

MATTHEW LAMBERT: Rafael Nadal wove many miracles on a tennis court, but his greatest trick was to constantly evolve while always staying the same.

Rafa Nadal will walk off into the sunset as a bona fide Galactico of the tennis world, a key part of a quartet who shaped the greatest era in the history of the game.

MATT LAMBERT: Nadal's decision to join Roger Federer in retirement will leave Novak Djokovic as the last man standing from the triumvirate who have dominated tennis for two decades.

Tennis legend Rafael Nadal has announced an emotional farewell to the sport - describing his career as 'a dream come true'.

On Thursday, the 22-time Grand Slam champion announced that he will officially retire from professional tennis, after much speculation that he could hang up his racket in recent years.

Tsitsipas and Badosa, both 26, first got together in May 2023, but the latter announced on Instagram they had gone their separate ways in May 2024.

Rafael Nadal has raised further concerns about his future after announcing that he has pulled out of the Laver Cup.

MATTHEW LAMBERT IN NEW YORK: The only other male players in history to split the majors are Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal in 2017, and Novak Djokovic and Nadal in 2019.

MATTHEW LAMBERT AT FLUSHING MEADOWS: Jack Draper muscled aside Facundo Diaz Acosta in the second round of the US Open, but will not face a showdown with the World No. 3 next.

The fashion designer, who celebrated her 75th birthday in June, wowed as she displayed her chic sense of style in a floor length simple white dress.

Swiatek, a five-time major winner who is one of the favorites to win the title in New York over the next two weeks, is an avid Swift fan.

The 26-year-old, who won here in 2018 and 2020, is back at Flushing Meadows as a wildcard after missing the whole of 2023 after giving birth to her daughter, Shai, last July.

The Murray tennis dynasty is calling for support for a talented young Scot seeking to break into the world of professional tennis.

Khelif beat Yang Liu of China in the final of the women's welterweight division, wrapping up the best series of fights of her boxing career with a victory at Roland Garros.

Two members of Team GB's support staff have emerged as Olympic heroes after helping to save the life of the head coach of the Uzbekistan boxing team.

Thousands of supporters have flooded the streets of Algeria and gone into full party mode to celebrate gender row boxer Imane Khelif's historic gold medal victory at the 2024 Paris Olympics

Once the subject of her own gender controversy, South African runner Caster Semenya is speaking out in defense of Algerian boxer Imane Khelif amid uproar in Paris.

Novak Djokovic was visibly overcome with emotion following his Olympic gold medal win over Spain's Carlos Alcaraz as the Serbian Grand Slam superstar broke down in tears at Roland Garros.

Caitlin Parker is guaranteed Australia's first Olympic medal in women's boxing after a dominating quarter-final win.

John Peers and Matt Ebden become the new Olympic golden boys of Australian tennis at Roland Garros - and nobody was supporting them harder than Peers' daughter Ellie in the stands.

Mark Woodforde has revealed how seeing John Peers and Matt Ebden become the new Olympic golden boys of Australian tennis left him tearful at Roland Garros.

Matt Ebden and John Peers have won a delightfully unexpected gold medal, becoming only the second Australian tennis champions at the Olympics.

Novak Djokovic was left outraged during his Olympics semi-final win over Italian Lorenzo Musetti on Friday evening as he was booed by the crowd while clashing with the umpire.

Andy Murray has opened up on his retirement from tennis as the British sports legend bowed out following Team GB's Olympics men's doubles defeat against USA on Thursday.

IAN HERBERT AT ROLAND GARROS: As the man who had so raged against the dying of the light stood to discuss the curtain falling, the heavens opened.

Centre court at Queen's will be renamed in honour of Sir Andy Murray from next year, after his competitive tennis career came to a close with defeat in the Olympic doubles.

Dan Evans was left in floods of tears as his and Andy Murray's Olympic journey was ended by Team USA, with the latter making his final professional appearance in tennis.

The Spanish pairing had been a duo of the past and present of tennis, with the once-clay King Nadal partnering with the two-time Wimbledon winner 17 years his junior in a bid to make history.

Strong thunderstorms, heavy rain, hail and lightning are expected from 6:00pm local time over the French capital, the weather service announced in a bulletin this morning

It was just a fifth defeat at Roland Garros in 118 matches for Nadal but he could contemplate quitting the sport.

Ed Sheeran was the latest celebrity to be spotted bring some star power at the Paris Olympics in the French capital on Monday afternoon.

The Aussie pair were dispatched of in brutal fashion by Team USA rivals Austin Krajicek and Rajeev Ram, who won the contest 6-2, 6-4 at Roland Garros.

Some of the biggest stars on the planet have flocked to Paris for the Olympics this summer, with Serena Williams and Bill Gates the latest to grab a piece of the action on Monday.

Djokovic is in search of the only piece of silverware missing from his trophy cabinet and he made short work of Nadal in the opening set at Roland Garros.

Andy Murray admitted he felt a sense of shock after he and Dan Evans saved five match points to progress to the second round of the doubles at the Paris Olympics. 

Rafael Nadal will play Novak Djokovic in a blockbuster second-round Olympic clash at Roland Garros after battling past Marton Fucsovics.

JONATHAN MCEVOY IN PARIS: There were moments in their match against the Argentinian sixth seeds, that had the Paris crowd inhaling and exhaling on the journey to a 7-6, 6-4 win.

Morgan, 26, flew into rainy Paris from sunny Spain where she had been updating her 344,000 Instagram followers about her bikini party lifestyle. But it was Fritz who was the main attraction.

The Scot announced on Tuesday that he was calling time on a heavily successful career as he arrived in Paris ahead of his fifth Olympic Games.

The 38-year-old was playing his first title match since his 2022 French Open triumph, but saw his serve broken five times in the one-hour and 27-minute contest as Borges won his maiden tour final.

Victory at Wimbledon's Centre Court on Sunday made Alcaraz at just 21 years old the youngest-ever male tennis player to win four Grand Slam titles - five weeks after claiming this year's French Open.

MATTHEW LAMBERT ON CENTRE COURT: Krejcikova has two Grand Slam singles titles and her transition from doubles specialist to all-surface, all format threat is complete.

Now 30, Bouchard emerged on the scene in 2014 when she reached the final of Wimbledon - the first Canadian-born Canadian to do so - where she would eventually lose to Petra Kvitova.

A star-studded crowd arrived to watch the women's semi-finals of the Wimbledon Championships in SW19 on Thursday afternoon.

World No 1 Iga Swiatek and Wimbledon's back-to-back finalist Ons Jabeur were big-name casualties, with both suffering third round losses within half hour of each other.

It wasn't Taylor Fritz's second-round win over Arthur Rinderknech that dominated the talk at Wimbledon on Thursday, but rather the American's overwhelming victory in the post-match war of words.

Aussie tennis star Aleksandar Vukic has turned heads after declaring he can beat defending champion and third seed Carlos Alcaraz at Wimbledon in their second round match.

Neither man has previously won the men's doubles at SW19, with Jamie coming closest when he and John Peers were defeated in straight sets in 2015.

MATTHEW LAMBERT IN EASTBOURNE: The 21-year-old took a long break from competition after a defeat in Madrid which left her 'mentally and emotionally exhausted'.

There have been some calls for a clampdown on letting spectators knock back booze while sitting in the stands at major tennis events after complaints of bad behaviour.

As Andy Murray plays his 1,000th match and Jack Draper plays his first tournament as British No1, it feels like an appropriate time for the torch to be passed.

Aussie tennis great Jelena Dokic has once again flaunted her impressive weight loss.

Raducanu declined her invite as she wants to prioritise getting back to her best, with the 21-year-old explaining: 'I think I'm very single-minded and I do things my own way and at my own time.'

The two-time former champion strongly hinted after his first-round French Open defeat that he would stay on clay rather than risk the physical demands of changing to grass and back again.

The expected news was confirmed by Spain's Olympic team captain, David Ferrer, on Wednesday, with Nadal having said last month that it would not be good for his body to switch surfaces.

The 37-year-old Scot is eligible to compete in the singles at the Games with two places reserved for players who have previously won a Grand Slam or Olympics tournament.

The two men shared the opening four sets, before Alcaraz opened up an early lead in the decider, but Zverev fashioned two opportunities to break back and square things up at 2-2.

MATTHEW LAMBERT AT ROLAND GARROS: Even as she celebrated a third French Open title in a row and fourth overall, Iga Swiatek's thoughts were turning across the Channel.

MATTHEW LAMBERT ON PHILIPPE CHATRIER: The brilliant 21-year-old beat Alexander Zverev in five undulating and pulsating sets, 6-3, 2-6, 5-7, 6-1, 6-2.

Gauff, a 20-year-old American who won the U.S. Open singles title last year, and Siniakova, who is from the Czech Republic, defeated Italians Jasmine Paolini and Sara Errani.

The top seeds dropped just five games as they beat Japanese duo Takuya Miki and Tokito Oda 6-1 6-4. The event provided a taster for the forthcoming Olympics for the 20-time grand slam winners.

Ahead of his French Open final showdown with Carlos Alcaraz, a visibly frustrated Zverev insisted he is innocent and urged journalists not to ask him about the case again.

MATTHEW LAMBERT AT ROLAND GARROS: Jasmine Paolini, from the Tuscan town of Castelnuovo di Garfagnana, faces Iga Swiatek in her first Grand Slam final at the age of 28.

Tennis' power couple (left) rekindled their popular relationship last month and were due to play mixed doubles together at the French Open, despite announcing their split just weeks prior.

MATTHEW LAMBERT AT ROLAND GARROS: Sinner is 22 and will be crowned Italy's first world No1 on Monday. Alcaraz is 21 and will move up to No2 in the rankings if he wins the title.

Zverev prevailed against his Australian opponent on Court Philippe Chatrier at Roland Garros but the win was no without incident following a controversial opening.

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MATTHEW LAMBERT AT ROLAND GARROS: Coco Gauff said the umpire 'should be ashamed' during a tearful row as she lost 6-2, 6-4 to Iga Swiatek in the semi-finals of the French Open.

De Minaur can hold his head up high despite the loss to Alexander Zverev, as he became the first Aussie male to make the quarter finals at Roland Garros for 20 years.

MATTHEW LAMBERT AT ROLAND GARROS: She is the youngest Grand Slam semi-finalist for 27 years, since Martina Hingis at the US Open, and will play Jasmine Paolini in her semi-final