It's been a rough season for ball boys in pro tennis. About a month after one crashed into a wall at the Barcelona Open, another face-planted on the red clay in Rome.

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Ilie Nastase said he would be considered the "bad boy" if he says anything more about Serena Williams, and then later said more in a separate interview. Nastase, the captain of Romania's Fed Cup team, last week speculated about the skin color of the baby the

LONDON (AP) The heat at Wimbledon on Wednesday caused a ball boy to collapse, a player to feel ''dizzy'' and thermometers to rise to record levels for the tournament. In the bright sunshine in southwest London, temperatures reached 35.7 degrees Celsius (96.26 degrees Fahrenheit), according the Met Office - the

Poland’s Jerzy Janowicz, who has reached his first Masters Series semifinal at the Paris Masters by upsetting Top 10 players Andy Murray and Janko Tipsarevic along the way, describes his remarkable roll. “I slept very well two hours, so no problem to sleep whatsoever," the 6'8" Pole told reporters. "I

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His idols may be Roger Federer and Stan Wawrinka, but Henry Bernet has now achieved something that neither player managed in their careers. The 17-year-old made history for Switzerland on Friday as the first player from his country to reach the Australian Open boys final. “It all started because of

What are the odds of the same Shanghai ball boy being involved in two on-court scares, and going viral both times? In 2016, Vasek Pospisil’s serve flew wide past Grigor Dmitrov and smacked a young boy in the stomach. The video, which has seen over a million views on YouTube,

Sachia Vickery of Miramar, Florida, and Collin Altamirano of Sacramento, California, earned U.S. Open wild cards by winning the USTA Girls’ and Boys' 18s National Championships. Altamirano became the only unseeded player ever to win singles title in the 71-year history of the Boys' 18s in Kalamazoo by defeating No.

It seems that Roger Federer is serious about starting a boy band, tweeting "No seriously, we're actually starting a boy band." He joined Tommy Haas and Grigor Dimitrov (with David Foster on piano) for a second installment of Chicago’s “Hard to Say I’m Sorry.” Their latest performance included a lot

Victoria Azarenka announced the birth of her baby boy on Twitter on Monday night.

Last week at the Barcelona Open, the cameras rolled as a ball boy suffered a painful interaction with the back wall. All seemed to be going according to plan, until suddenly, it was not:

PARIS—This morning, I took a walk out to Court 17, and not for purely professional reasons. Sixteen year-old Stefan Kozlov, the last American male left in any draw, was playing the boy seeded two spots above him at No. 4 in the quarterfinals of the junior event, Andrey Rublev. But

VALENCIA, Pa.(AP) Two sisters won the Pittsburgh-area boys doubles tennis championship. Karli and Tayla Timko defeated Tin Chu and Drew Gallatin of Thomas Jefferson High 6-2, 6-1 Friday to win the Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League doubles title. The sisters, from Chartiers-Houston High, competed in the boys division because their

There's yet another new mom in town on the WTA tour as Alla Kudryavtseva announced she has had a baby boy. The 31-year-old was sharing plenty of pregnancy tales leading up to her December due date.

Having a stellar seat doesn't guarantee you a trinket from a player, as one young fan found out the hard way on Tuesday. Jack Sock had just completed his first-round Wimbledon win over Chile's Christian Garin, and a boy in the stands near his chair asked for a towel. The

Ana Ivanovic is officially a mother. The 30-year-old welcomed a baby boy with husband Bastian Schweinsteiger. The former world No. 1 confirmed the news on Sunday.

It would have been easy to miss, thanks to Kevin Anderson and John Isner’s drawn-out semi-final match, but on a court not far away, another marathon was in progress. In the Wimbledon boys’ semifinal, it took more than four hours and 10 match points for Great Britain's Jack Draper to

Mike Bryan is now only two kids behind his brother Bob. Mike and his wife, Nadia, have welcomed into the world a baby boy named Jake, the couple announced on Instagram on Wednesday evening.

PARIS (AP) Viktor Troicki couldn't believe his eyes. The Serb was about to smash a winner when a wayward ball boy ran onto the court, adding even more drama to Troicki's five-set loss to Andy Murray on Tuesday at the French Open. It happened at the start of the sixth

Every time Roger Federer reaches a final in Basel (11 times and counting), the ball kids are in for a treat. The Swiss, a former ball boy himself, celebrates with pizza for everyone. After beating Juan Martin del Potro on Sunday for his eighth Basel crown, Federer also handed out