After a season that finished in ignominy, Nick Kyrgios has opened the next in far more positive style. New year, bright start, as the 21-year-old launched Australia's Hopman Cup defence by dispatching Spanish veteran Feliciano Lopez 6-3, 6-4.
Serena Williams has played her first match at the ASB Classic in Auckland, and she won't get any easier this week.
The German world number one prepares to begin her campaign at the Brisbane International as she heads to Melbourne to defend her maiden grand slam title.
The US have claimed the opening tie of the 2017 Hopman Cup tournament in Perth, taking an unbeatable 2-0 lead against the Czech Republic.
Tennis bad boy Nick Kyrgios will spend more time at home with loved ones in 2017 in a bid to avoid any further meltdowns like the Shanghai Masters tanking debacle.
Curiosity will be the theme of the Hopman Cup this summer as Roger Federer and Nick Kyrgios return to the tennis world stage following vastly different stints on the sidelines.
Tennis Australia is facing a new crisis amid claims a potential conflict of interest could have influenced the decision to sell the television rights for the Australian Open to Seven West Media in a private deal worth around $200 million.
The one institutional restriction in professional sport is sex.
Former tennis world No.1 Roger Federer doesn't want this summer to be his Australian swansong, saying he wants to play on for another two or three years.
Sadly fading into Australian tennis's forgotten man, Thanasi Kokkinakis can't wait for a seemingly cursed 2016 to end and farewell "the worst year of my life".
Dominic Thiem will chase a maiden grand slam tennis title in 2017 after surging into the world's top 10.
There is plenty for tennis fans to get excited about in 2017. Here is your handy guide to the upcoming tennis action.
Victorian Sam Groth is set to receive a New Year's gift with fellow Olympian John Millman handing him direct entry to the Brisbane International after withdrawing on Friday.
The tennis star is engaged to Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian.
All has been forgiven for Nick Kyrgios over 'that sledge' aimed at US Open champion Stan Wawrinka, it seems.
No stranger to homecourt pressure, Sam Stosur is again feeling the heat ahead of the Australian Open - this time from compatriot Daria Gavrilova.
Former world No.1 Ana Ivanovic has announced her retirement from tennis at the age of 29.
After five runner-up finishes in Melbourne, the world No.1 Andy Murray is taking a different approach to the season-opening grand slam next month.
The former US Open champion is backing 35-year-old Serena Williams to defy time and break Margaret Court's grand slam singles record of 24 titles.
But Canberra tennis star did land a first while fishing near Batemans Bay.
The year will not end in the way in which Serena Williams might have hoped.
Buenos Aires Juan Martin del Potro on Friday confirmed his withdrawal from the Australian Open and the Auckland ATP event, after dropping hints recently that he would miss the January tournaments.
Brandishing a heavily bandaged playing hand, twice Wimibledon champion Petra Kvitova faces the media for the first time she was slashed by a knife-wielding home invader.
Nick Kyrgios believes his forced hiatus from tennis has been a blessing, and it's done little to deflate his confidence after declaring he has the ability to win next month's Australian Open.
Petra Kvitova's senseless stabbing bears dark similarities to assault on former world No.1 and she will need abundant moral support if she is to avoid the same troubled aftermath.
Daria Gavrilova heard Nick Kyrgios talk up his influence on their Hopman Cup success many times throughout 2016.
Two-time Wimbledon tennis champion Petra Kvitova faces around six months out of the sport while her playing hand, wounded in a knife attack, recovers its strength, the surgeon who operated on her said on Wednesday.
Nick Kyrgios is a "great, great player" according to Roger Federer, but the Australian has to be willing "to work at it" if he wants to have a successful career.
Tennis world No. 11 says she is 'fortunate to be alive' after being attacked in her Czech apartment.
A severe injury to her left hand from a knife attack will force two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova out of the Australian open next month.
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