Australian veteran Matt Ebden is laughing off the prospect of taking on Novak Djokovic in his first tour-level singles match for two years at the Olympics.
Ian Chadband
Australian No.1 Daria Saville has spurned a last-minute opportunity to play the Olympic tennis singles in Paris to concentrate her energies on the doubles.
No.3 seed Elena Rybakina has withdrawn from the Paris Games because of illness, making Australia's Daria Saville an alternate in the women's draw.
Staff Writers
Three-time grand slam champion Angelique Kerber has announced that she will retire after the Paris Olympics.
Doubles ace Matt Ebden has been given a nightmare singles draw at the Olympics - a first-round date with history-seeking top seed Novak Djokovic.
Andy Murray will focus just on the doubles with Dan Evans at the Paris Olympic Games in his final tournament before retiring.
There are 51 athletes hailing from Western Australia hoping for a life-changing experience in Paris. These are the Sandgropers most likely to challenge for gold.
Ben Smith
Italian tennis star Jannik Sinner has pulled out of the Paris Olympics with a bout of tonsillitis.
Two-time Olympic Games champ and three-time grand slam winner Andy Murray has confirmed he will retire from tennis after this summer's Olympics.
Australian tennis star Alex de Minaur is set to make an extraordinary return from a hip injury in time to celebrate his Olympic debut in Paris.
Anna Harrington and Roger Vaughan
Tokyo Olympics tennis silver medalist Marketa Vondrousova and Hubert Hurkacz have pulled out of the Paris Games because of injuries.
Rafael Nadal's winning run at the clay-court Swedish Open has ended in the final when the Spanish 22-time grand slam champion was beaten by Nuno Borges 6-3 6-2.
Rafael Nadal has continued his Olympic preparations by recovering to beat Duje Ajdukovic 4-6 6-3 6-4 to reach the final of the clay-court Nordea Open in Sweden.
Rafael Nadal has survived a four-hour encounter with Argentina's Mariano Navone to reach his first semi-final in two years at the Nordea Open.
Rafael Nadal's preparations for the Olympic Games moved up a gear as he overcame a second-set blip to beat British No.2 Cameron Norrie at the Swedish Open.
Alexander Zverev's Wimbledon campaign was hampered by a knee injury but he showed no ill-effects during a comfortable first-round victory in home-town Hamburg.
Nadal v Borg has a ring to it, even if it was Bjorn's son Leo that Rafael Nadal played as he returned to action on Swedish clay.
Rafael Nadal skipped Wimbledon so he would be ready for the Paris Olympics, where he will be looking to add to his tally of gold medals.
It's taken six months and a Wimbledon singles title, but the Czech Republic's Barbora Krejcikova is finally back in the WTA's top 10.
Carlos Alcaraz is so brilliant that he could break Novak Djokovic and Margaret Court's record tally of grand slam wins, believes Australian star Nick Kyrgios.
Gold Coast's Emerson Jones, the first Australian to reach the Wimbledon girls' final since Ash Barty, has lost again to her Slovakian rival Renata Jamrichova.
Carlos Alcaraz has successfully defended his Wimbledon men's title, defeating Novak Djokovic in straight sets with a devastating display on Centre Court.
‘I still dream about her a lot. And we are talking in the dreams.’
Australians Jordan Thompson and Max Purcell have lost agonisingly in the Wimbledon men's doubles final after holding three Championship points.