Former Wimbledon champion Goran Ivanisevic says he will stop coaching world number six Elena Rybakina after the Australian Open.

The pair started working together in mid-December on a trial basis.

Rybakina, a former finalist at Melbourne Park, lost 6-3 1-6 6-3 to Madison Keys in the fourth round on Monday.

On Tuesday, Ivanisevic posted on Instagram that he would not be continuing with Rybakina, writing: "After our trial period that finished with the Australian Open, I wish Elena and her team best of luck moving forward."

Ivanisevic previously coached 24-time Grand Slam men's champion Novak Djokovic in 12 of his major wins.

Rybakina announced at the start of January that she wanted to bring her former coach Stefano Vukov back into the team - despite Vukov being provisionally banned by the WTA.

Vukov, 37, has been suspended by the women's governing body while an investigation into his conduct towards the player continues.

Vukov has denied any wrongdoing and Rybakina has said she never made any complaints about him.

Croat Vukov was not given credentials to attend the Australian Open as part of 2022 Wimbledon champion Rybakina's team.

Alexander Zverev continued his bid for an elusive first Grand Slam title with victory over Tommy Paul to reach the Australian Open semi-finals.

The German second seed won 7-6 (7-1) 7-6 (7-0) 2-6 6-1 against the American 12th seed on Rod Laver Arena.

The victory was 27-year-old Zverev's seventh in a row and continues his unbeaten start to his season.

"I should have been down two sets, he played better than me and I was not playing great," Zverev said.

"The fourth set was definitely the best I played and I'm happy to be back in the semi-finals."

Zverev previously reached the semi-finals at Melbourne Park in 2020 and 2024.

He will play either 10-time champion Novak Djokovic or Carlos Alcaraz - who beat Zverev in the French Open final last year - in this year's last four.

The match will be Zverev's ninth Grand Slam semi-final - the most among active players who have not won a major.

NEW ORLEANS -- CJ McCollum highlighted a 45-point performance with 3-pointers and reverse layups in the clutch.

Dejounte Murray's relentless pressure on both ends of the court left him one rebound short of a triple-double.

And the New Orleans Pelicans pulled off the largest comeback in franchise history.

As injury-ridden, star-crossed and generally miserable as much of their season has been, the Pelicans don't seem inclined to give up.

"Huge credit to our guys in the locker room pulling together," Pelicans coach Willie Green said after his team erased a 25-point Utah lead and beat the Jazz 123-119 in overtime Monday night. "This was a hard game to win."

Little has gone right for New Orleans this season.

Star power forward Zion Williamson, who recently returned from a left hamstring injury, couldn't play against Utah on Monday because of a non-COVID illness. He has missed 34 of the Pelicans' 44 games this season.

New Orleans' top defender, Herb Jones, is out indefinitely with a shoulder injury, while high-scoring wing Brandon Ingram has missed 20 straight games with a left ankle sprain.

The Pelicans had further matchup problems inside against Utah because rookie 7-foot center Yves Missi missed his second straight game with a non-COVID illness.

Utah outrebounded New Orleans 63-45, had 23 second-chance points and outscored the Pelicans 60-40 in the paint. Yet New Orleans (12-32), which will be hard-pressed to climb back into contention for a postseason berth, won its fourth straight game and seventh in 10.

"We were missing some guys who rebound the ball well," McCollum said. "Sometimes, it's not Xs and Os. It's Jimmies and Joes."

The 33-year-old McCollum has scored 45 or more points twice in 10 games, starting with 50 in a victory over Washington on Jan. 3.

"CJ was incredible and once he got going I thought his teammates did a great job of trying to find him," Green said. "We were drawing stuff up for him. He executed offensively over and over again. Without that effort, it's hard for us to win that game."

Now in his 12th NBA season, McCollum said he likes to think his game will "age well."

"I ain't out here dunking on people," he said. "It's skill. It's strategy. It's angles. It's footwork. It's a jump shot that never leaves. I'll be able to shoot when I'm 40."

Murray, who missed 17 games early this season with a hand injury, also is rounding into form and had 26 points, 11 assists, nine rebounds, and two steals on Monday.

"He was super, super aggressive when we needed him to be," McCollum said.

Meanwhile, Trey Murphy III prolonged his recent run of productive form with 24 points, highlighted by a 3 late in overtime that all but sealed it. Additional help came from 2023 first-round draft choice Jordan Hawkins, who hit three 3-pointers and finished with 18 points.

McCollum lamented that one of New Orleans' three most recent losses came by a single point in Boston, where he missed a last-second floater for the win.

"I don't take these wins for granted because it took us like two months to get five wins," McCollum said. "You've got to ride the wave and just keep your perspective in check."

The Pelicans were scheduled to play next on Wednesday night at home against Milwaukee. In the meantime, McCollum planned to make the best of a day off on Tuesday, when a rare snow storm was forecast for south Louisiana.

"I hope there's lots of snow," said McCollum, a father of a 3-year-old boy, "so I can play in the snow with my son."

People call me a 'late bloomer' because of what happened last year.

I had never gone past the second round of a Grand Slam tournament before, and then I reached the Australian Open fourth round before my runs at the French Open and Wimbledon.

I also had more success in the doubles and won Olympic gold with my good friend Sara Errani in Paris. It was a special, special year.

So what changed? Of course, things don't change overnight.

Every week we tried to add something which improved my game and, of course, winning matches is what really helps.

I had a good finish to the 2023 season which meant I started 2024 with more confidence in my game.

I was nervous when I came to Melbourne because I had never gone past the first round here.

After I won the first match here, I felt a huge amount of relief and things continued to improve.

I reached the fourth round before losing to Anna Kalinskaya, so a run like that gave me much more confidence for the whole year.

Because I'm in my late 20s, sometimes I thought the chance of having this kind of success had gone.

Paula Badosa stunned Coco Gauff at the Australian Open to reach her first Grand Slam semi-final - just one year after fearing she would have to retire from tennis.

The Spaniard, a former world number two, spent almost two years struggling with back problems and fell to 140th in the rankings

But, after a strong end to 2024, Badosa's comeback continued in sensational fashion as she ended American Gauff's 13-match winning streak with a 7-5 6-4 victory.

"I'm a bit emotional - as you know, I'm a very emotional person," Badosa said.

"I've been through a lot. I was in the past one of the best players in the world but I think now I'm a better player."

Badosa was named the WTA's Comeback Player of the Year in 2024 after recovering from a stress fracture in her spine that saw her miss two of the four majors in 2023.

The 27-year-old won her first title in over two years at August's Washington Open before reaching the quarter-finals of the US Open a month later.

"A year ago I was here with my back and I didn't know if I had to retire from this sport," 11th seed Badosa said.

"Now I'm here playing against the best in the world. I won today, I'm in the semi-finals.

"I will never think that a year after I would be here. This is a dream come true."

She will face either two-time defending champion and close friend Aryna Sabalenka or Russian 27th seed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova next.

SALT LAKE CITY -- Utah Hockey Club captain Clayton Keller went to the locker room a minute into the second period against the Winnipeg Jets on Monday night after a puck struck him in the face.

A shot from teammate Michael Kesselring was deflected high and the puck struck Keller. He immediately ripped off his helmet, skated off the ice, and headed to the locker room.

Keller received 12 stitches, eventually returning to the ice with 4:40 left in the second with swelling and a cut above his eye. He assisted on Utah's first goal of the game 40 seconds later and added an empty-netter late in the 5-2 win over the Jets.

"I'm feeling great," he said after the win. "I got lucky, it didn't catch my eye. When it happened, it happened so fast, I didn't really feel much. You know, I tried to look through my eye, and I knew I could. So, I really wasn't too worried after that."

Keller has 10 goals and 20 assists over his past 22 games. He had a goal and three assists in Utah's 4-2 win over St. Louis on Saturday, matching his NHL career high with four points.

"It's a little tough sometimes, just because you're so locked in," Keller said of the wait before he returned to action. "You have a ton of energy, and then I was kind of sitting there for 20 minutes just laying down on my back. So, when I came back out, I just tried to get my legs into it, and be simple."

Keller leads the expansion club in points (50) and assists (34) this season.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

ATLANTA, Ga. -- Following his team's 34-23 loss to Ohio State in Monday night's College Football Playoff national championship game, Notre Dame coach Marcus Freeman sat in the middle of his two teary-eyed team captains and took ownership for a multitude of mistakes that were ultimately too much to overcome when it mattered the most.

With quarterback Riley Leonard sitting to his right, and sixth-year senior linebacker Jack Kiser on his left, Freeman said there were uncharacteristic mistakes and breakdowns in communication that put the Irish in a 24-point hole in the third quarter they couldn't overcome.

"You're always making mistakes, but those type of detrimental mistakes when you play a really, really good football team cost you points," Freeman said. "I think that's probably the biggest thing that has stuck out to me even in between series, the communication. 'Hey, we're good, we got it.' Well, we can't make mistakes. It falls on my shoulders. And as the head coach, we have to prepare and be better prepared for this moment. These guys gave everything they got."

Notre Dame, which was seeking its first national title since 1988, snapped a 13-game winning streak and suffered its first loss since Sept. 7 against Northern Illinois. After opening with an 18-play, 75-yard scoring drive during which Leonard ran nine times for 34 carries, including the game's first touchdown, Notre Dame's offense fell flat.

Leonard completed just one pass over five yards downfield in the first half, and two of his five completions were thrown at or behind the line of scrimmage. His average completion was just 2.2 yards downfield.

"We couldn't run Riley every play," Freeman said. "It's not right for Riley, and it's not going to sustain the success we needed offensively. We ran him a whole bunch that first series, and you look at the second series, we had two penalties which ended up forcing us to punt, and in the third series we had the miscommunication with the muffed snap, and that's the end of the half."

After the game, Leonard apologized "to everybody for the way that I played after that drive in the second quarter because it's unacceptable." He finished with two passing touchdowns and one rushing touchdowns, becoming the second FBS player this season with 20 passing touchdowns and 15 rushing.

"You see the next three drives after that, penalties and miscommunications," Leonard said. "And all that stuff is on me. That first drive we just came out and played Notre Dame football, took advantage of our match-ups when we had to. We just drove the ball down the field. We had to run the ball a little bit. Everything was just clicking.

"Then the next couple drives maybe I got relaxed a little bit, and I can't let that happen," he said. " ... These are things that aren't necessarily physical but just like the mental side of things that I can't make certain mistakes. I've just got to live with that and respond."

In the first half, 20 of Ohio State's 33 plays were run in Notre Dame territory (61%). Notre Dame couldn't get off the field on third down, and Ohio State quarterback Will Howard completed each of his first 13 passes, and he was 11-11 in the first half targeting wide receivers.

There was one completion, though, that might be remembered more than the rest. With 2:38 left in the game, Ohio State was facing a third-and-11 from their own 34-yard line when Howard connected with freshman phenom Jeremiah Smith for a 56-yard completion. It was the first time he was targeted in the second half -- and all he needed. The play eventually set up Ohio State's 33-yard field goal that sealed the win.

"It was do or die," Freeman said. "It was that type of down. If they run it and they get a 1st down -- we've got to get them stopped, and we thought at that moment the best way to get them stopped is to run zero pressure. We have to have faith at some point that we can make a play.

"There was times in the second half that we did in man coverage, but he's a heck of a player," Freeman said of Smith. "He's difficult to cover. You want to play zone, and they'll find ways to pick you apart. You want to play man, they'll find ways to get him the ball. It's a talented offense, with that situation right there."

Kiser, who had a hard time reflecting on his time at Notre Dame without getting choked up, said in spite of the loss, Notre Dame is heading in the right direction.

"I think when you look at the six years I've been here, what I remember is the people," said Kiser, who got an encouraging pat on his knee from Freeman while he was talking. "From when I was a small underclassman just trying to learn the ways, looking at a Drew White, Bo Bauer, to being a guy running with my boys in JD and Marist, and then this year coming back and feeling like I had a chip on my shoulder and getting to meet amazing guys like Riley coming in and just kind of going on the journey we went on.

"To have Coach Freeman -- yeah, it's about the people," he said, his voice breaking up. "It's the people that's made this place different."

In the fourth quarter, on fourth-and-goal from the 9-yard line, Freeman opted to try a 27-yard field goal instead of keeping the offense on the field. Mitch Jeter's kick said into the left upright, and the metallic clink of the ricochet could be heard in Mercedez Benz Stadium. Ohio State coach Ryan Day raised both of his hands in the air in celebration.

Freeman said that had it been a shorter fourth-down, he probably would have gone for it. Notre Dame finished this season 4-for-10 on kicks inside the 40 this season, the worst field goal percentage on those kicks in the FBS.

"I just thought instead of being down 16, let's try to go down 13," he said. "I know it's still a two-score game, but you have a better probability of getting 14 points than you do 16 points. If it was a shorter fourth and goal situation, I probably would have gone for it, but I just felt fourth and nine was not a great chance for us to make that and decided to kick it, and we didn't make it."

Still, Freeman said the journey Notre Dame has been on this season and the players in the locker room made him better.

"You sit up here and you listen to these two guys speak and the passion they have for Notre Dame and each other in that locker room, I'm just sitting here listening like this is one of the greatest gifts in life is to be able to be the leader of this program because you have great young people like this that share the blame -- share the success when you win and own the blame when you lose. "But I'm better because of them," he said.

"But we just have to be better. I've got to make sure we prepare better for this next opportunity that we have in the future."

The top two favorites to win next season's College Football Playoff will square off in Week 1, when Ohio State hosts Texas on Aug. 30.

The Longhorns and defending-champion Buckeyes enter the offseason as the favorites to win the 2025-26 College Football Playoff at sportsbooks. Texas, which is poised to begin the Arch Manning era, opened as the national title favorite at +450 at ESPN BET, followed by the Buckeyes (+500) and Georgia (+600). Ohio State is the favorite at other sportsbooks, but those three teams top the early odds across the betting market.

Oregon and Penn State, each at +750, and round out the teams with odds shorter than 10-1 in ESPN BET's opening numbers.

Ohio State held off Notre Dame in Monday's championship game to win the national title, capping a dominant CFP run. The Fighting Irish opened at +1500 to win next season's title at ESPN BET.

Manning is expected to be the Longhorns' starter with quarterback Quinn Ewers declaring for the NFL draft. FanDuel has Manning as the second-favorite to win next season's Heisman Trophy, behind LSU quarterback Garrett Nussmeier.

The transfer portal has added to the challenges sportsbooks face when creating odds to win the next season's championship.

"We will take our power ratings for 2025 and make the proper adjustments to account for recruiting, returning production and transfer portal changes," Joey Feazel, trader at Caesars Sportsbook, said. "It is a challenging process at times, but year after year, we are getting better at it." The preseason betting favorite to win the national championship has not won it since Alabama in 2017.

ATLANTA -- Maybe Ohio State football fans will like coach Ryan Day now.

Fifty-one days after suffering the worst loss of his career, Day guided the No. 8 Buckeyes to their first national championship in 10 years with a 34-23 victory over No. 7 Notre Dame in the CFP National Championship presented by AT&T on Monday night.

The Buckeyes led the Irish 31-7 midway through the third quarter, but the Irish kept fighting and pulled to within one score and a two-point conversion with 4:15 remaining. Quarterback Riley Leonard threw a 30-yard touchdown to Jaden Greathouse with 3:03 left in the third. Leonard tossed a two-point play to tailback Jeremiyah Love to make it 31-15.

Then, after a late defensive stop, Leonard found Greathouse again for a 30-yard touchdown. Leonard's pass to Beaux Collins on a two-point play pulled the Irish within 31-15 with 4:15 remaining in the game.

The Buckeyes finally put the Irish away for good when quarterback Will Howard threw a deep ball to freshman Jeremiah Smith, who beat cornerback Christian Gray for a 56-yard gain to the Irish 10. That led to Jayden Fielding's 33-yard field goal that put the Buckeyes up 11 with 26 seconds left.