Welcome to the Australian Open briefing, where will explain the stories behind the stories on each day of the tournament. With the semifinals done, the first major of the year has its four finalists.

Taylor Townsend is a professional tennis player who hails from Chicago ... She and Siniakova won the final against Jelena Ostapenko and Hsieh Su-Wei to lift her second major title in doubles.

Taiwan's Hsieh Su-wei and Latvian partner Jelena Ostapenko lost their women's doubles title match at the Australian Open to ...