This year's Australian Open is the first tennis Grand Slam to incorporate esports, with the Fortnite Champions Series Oceania being shown on the tournament's Twitch and YouTube channels beginning today.

the broadcast of the Fortnite Champions Series Oceania region, starting this weekend," said Tennis Australia

through our previous Fortnite Summer Smash events and will be running the Fortnite Champion Series in Australia

International Basketball Federation (FIBA) Asia Cup qualifying matches in Doha have been postponed due to COVID-19 restrictions imposed by the Qatari authorities. 

qualification tournament among the third-ranked teams in each group.A FIBA Asia Cup qualifier between Australia

 A Group C clash between Australia and New Zealand is also still set for Saturday (February 20)

Australian Open organisers have said there is no reason for alarm despite Greek player Michail Pervolarakis testing positive for coronavirus after leaving the country.

number 463 has tested positive for COVID-19 after arriving in South Africa via Qatar.He flew out of Australia

After spending a day in South Africa [Pervolarakis] tested positive," Tennis Australia chief executive

A new logo has been unveiled as the Papua New Guinea Olympic Committee (PNGOC) gears up to celebrate its 60th anniversary.

badge - is the first.While the PNGOC was established in 1961, the nation did not gain independence from Australia

A proposed multi-centre bid for the 2030 Commonwealth Games in Victoria in Australia has been put on

Commonwealth Games.The bid's project manager Fiona Le Gassick has now told The Standard newspaper in Australia

circuit breaker” to contain a new COVID-19 outbreak connected to a quarantine hotel in the city.Overall, Australia

2026 Commonwealth Games to follow Birmingham, who are due to stage next year’s event.Adelaide in South Australia

"A totally different experience," Gronya Somerville says as she reflects on her first international badminton competitions since the coronavirus enforced shutdown last year.

Somerville explained that to leave Australia for competition she needed to provide a series of new documentation

The last three nations who will compete in the men's water polo tournament at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games are due to be decided at the final qualifier in Rotterdam.

the 12-team Olympic tournament alongside eight other nations.Serbia, Italy, Spain, the United States, Australia

A three-game softball series between the United States and Mexico has been cancelled because of poor weather in Dallas.

due to compete when softball returns to the Olympic programme in Tokyo later this year - hosts Japan, Australia

The Yonex German Open, which had been the next-but-one tournament on the Badminton World Federation (BWF) World Tour calendar, has been cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic.

although three events were held in Thailand earlier this year.Other World Tour events in New Zealand, Australia

Australia's Belle Brockhoff and Jarryd Hughes have been crowned the team world champions in snowboard cross at the International Ski Federation Ski and Snowboard Cross World Championships in Idre Fjäll in Sweden.

from Australia @bellebrockhoff and @JarrydHughes ??

The Australian Open is set to be played behind closed doors for the next five days after an outbreak of coronavirus forced a snap lockdown to be declared in Melbourne.

A statement from the tournament organisers read: "Tennis Australia continues to work with the government

Athletics Australia has announced that the Oceania and Australian 20 Kilometres Race Walking Championships

With Melbourne facing a recent COVID-19 outbreak and South Australia closing its borders, the Championships

have had to be postponed.Athletics Australia chief executive Darren Gocher said the decision was based

Dane Bird-Smith was set to compete at the Oceania and Australia 20km Race Walking Championships, where

Championships to be held alongside the 50km Race Walking Championships in Melbourne on March 27, but Athletics Australia

 In Australia, there has been a total of more than 28,871 confirmed cases of COVID-19 to date, resulting

Tennis Australia chief executive Craig Tiley has cast doubts over anti-coronavirus measures put in place

A total of 1,200 players, officials and media arrived in Australia for the tournament on 17 flights from

Australia has so far had a total of 28,871 COVID-19 cases with 909 deaths.Japan has been affected much

The appointment of Australian sports administrator Kate Palmer to help form a new national sports organisation dedicated to athletics has been welcomed by the country’s National Olympic Committee.

OneAthletics is currently overseeing a merger process which is set to lead to Coles Little Athletics Australia

and Athletics Australia forming a new national sporting organisation under the banner of Australian

I could not think of anyone better equipped than Kate to manage this process to unify athletics in Australia

and Coles Little Athletics Australia to bring to life Australian Athletics through the OneAthletics

Australia won two athletics medals at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, both in race walking,

Skeleton events will provide the focus as the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) World Championships resumes in Altenberg tomorrow.

among the starters in the women’s monobob, along with fellow World Series winners Breeana Walker of Australia