Rafael Nadal's glittering professional tennis career has now come to an end following Spain's elimination from the Davis Cup.

The AFL draft offers struggling clubs a ticket back to the top, but not every team approaches it in the same way. The stakes are high for West Coast, Richmond and others and their radically different draft strategies are about to be put to the test.

The Socceroos rescued a point late against Bahrain at the National Stadium in Riffa, having been stunned with two quick goals in the second half.

The A-League Women's Unite Round will no longer take place at inner-city venue Leichhardt Oval due to substandard pitch conditions.

Australia's golf majors are upon us and such is the enormity of the boom across the sport since COVID, there is no more yearning for the big overseas star that the Aussie tour felt it needed for so long.