Welcome back to the Monday Tennis Briefing, where will explain the stories behind the stories from the past week on court. This week, the first tournaments of 2025 reached their sharp ends all across Australia and New Zealand. Aryna Sabalenka continued a remarkable record and too many matches were ended by retirements. How to beat Aryna Sabalenka in Australia? On the face of it, there’s little to give the rest of the field hope. World No. 1 Sabalenka comes into the Australian Open as the two-tim