MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) Asked what the future might hold for her young opponent, Venus Williams offered some heartfelt advice that could easily apply to her own career. ''Sky's the limit,'' said the 34-year-old Williams. ''There is no limit on what you can achieve. No one can stop you.'' ''Sometimes you

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) -- Serena Williams stuck out a fist in mock triumph and mouthed ''C'mon,'' careful not to push her point too far. The 33-year-old Williams was closing in on her 19th Grand Slam singles title, her 16th straight win over Maria Sharapova and her sixth Australian Open championship

LONDON (AP) For two sets in Wimbledon's fourth round on Monday, defending champion Novak Djokovic was in serious trouble, unable to solve 6-foot-8 (2.03-meter) Kevin Anderson's big serve. Djokovic dropped both of those sets, 7-6 (6), 7-6 (6), then began working his way back into the match. He took the

KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. (AP) — When it comes to tournament matchups, Key Biscayne has fallen behind. A stalled plan to upgrade the complex has caused the Miami Open to decline in prestige, raising doubts about its future. "When I first arrived here, it was always the biggest tournament after the

Has there ever been ever been a matchup like the one between Iga Swiatek and Jelena Ostapenko? Has a significantly lower-ranked player ever dominated a long-running No. 1, and multiple major-title winner, as thoroughly as the Latvian dominates the Pole? The sixth edition of this unique, upside-down conflict took place

Scott Lipsky is one of many college-player-turned-pro success stories everyone can learn from. The 37-year-old from California carved out an impressive 15-year career on the ATP tour after four years playing for Stanford. His college highlights include being part of the NCAA championship-winning team in 2000 and rising to No.

PARIS (AP) Grimacing in pain with almost every step, Andy Murray nearly had to call it quits because of a back spasm at the French Open on Thursday. Instead, the fourth-seeded Brit rebounded from an awful first set to beat Jarkko Nieminen 1-6, 6-4, 6-1, 6-2 and reach the third

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) Serena Williams reached her eighth Wimbledon semifinal by knocking out defending champion Petra Kvitova in straight sets with another commanding serving performance on Tuesday. Playing underneath the closed roof on Centre Court while rain halted play elsewhere at the All England Club, Williams hit 13 aces -

MASON, Ohio (AP)—Only one of the Williams sisters is heading to a semifinal, and it's not the one with the long winning streak. Serena Williams lost that — and her cool — at the Western & Southern Open. Williams had her 19-match streak snapped by Germany's Angelique Kerber on Friday,

PARIS(AP) Oh, Andy Murray what have you done? Set all England aflutter that you might be the Wimbledon one. As if the home expectations weren't already heavy enough, the third-ranked Brit committed the schoolboy error of winning his first grass-court title just one week before Wimbledon starts next Monday. Cue

WIMBLEDON, England(AP) Roger Federer was handed a tough draw Friday in his bid for a record-equaling seventh Wimbledon title. The defending champion and top-seeded Federer was drawn in the same top half with Andy Roddick, Novak Djokovic and former champion Lleyton Hewitt. Federer beat Roddick in a marathon five-set final

PARIS (AP) If China's 1.3 billion people want to thank someone for their country's first Grand Slam singles title, they can say ``merci'' to Li Na's former badminton coach. The 29-year-old Li became the first from her country to win a major tennis title Saturday when she beat defending champion

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) Walking away from Centre Court, Oracene Price - mother and sometimes-coach to Serena and Venus Williams - shook her head after watching one daughter lose at Wimbledon, then the other. Undeniably great as she is, even defending champion Serena found it too tough to make a deep

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) Rafael Nadal will get to play one more match as the top-ranked man in the tennis world, and it will be in the Wimbledon final against the man who is going to replace him. The defending champion reached his fifth final at the All England Club on

SYDNEY (AP) — Andy Murray's impressive run ended one win short of a 47th career title when he lost the Sydney Tennis Classic final, 6-3, 6-3, to top-seeded Aslan Karatsev on Saturday. The 34-year-old Murray started the week with his first win on Australian soil in more than 1,000 days.

Usually there’s a lot of movement on the rankings after a major, but with “best of” points falling off from the last two Australian Opens this week, there’s even more. Below are just a few of the notable storylines from the January 31st, 2022 rankings. Danielle Collins soars into Top

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — It's where Serena Williams, Roger Federer, Martina Navratilova, Pete Sampras and Steffi Graf reigned. Rod Laver, Billie Jean King and Althea Gibson before that. And Bill Tilden, Helen Wills Moody, Don Budge and Suzanne Lenglen before that. It's been called the cathedral of tennis and the

NEW YORK—Normally, after a match in Arthur Ashe Stadium, we only hear from the winner. But when Carlos Alcaraz finally subdued Frances Tiafoe, 6-7 (6), 6-3, 6-1, 6-7 (5), 6-3 in their semifinal on Friday night, ESPN broke protocol and talked to the man who lost the match as well.

A week ago Roger Federer announced that the Laver Cup would be the last event of his professional career, and so every day since the announcement we've been highlighting one of his many, many records that may never be broken. So far we’ve covered how he’s the only tennis player

ADELAIDE, Australia (AP) — Novak Djokovic showed no signs of an injury that might derail his Australian Open campaign when he beat unseeded American Sebastian Korda 6-7 (8), 7-6 (3), 6-4 Sunday to win the Adelaide International. Djokovic worried Open organizers when he said after his semifinal in Adelaide against