KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. (AP) — Roger Federer's run at the Miami Open was one point from ending. Down 6-4 in a third-set tiebreaker to Tomas Berdych, the situation was officially dire. Yet even in that moment, Federer still felt some hope. "I had belief I could turn it around, even

Simona Halep's title-winning point at the 2018 French Open, against Sloane Stephens:

It’s still technically February, but the tours—especially on the ATP side—will start to have that March feeling this week. Spring will come early, in the form of some Acapulco sunshine, and the long road to the Grand Slam season will also start a week early on the men’s side. Andy

On Thursday evening in Washington, chants of “Bobby! Bobby! Bobby!” erupted through Kastles Stadium at the Smith Center. The arena swirled with emotion and tears filled faces of the "Refuse To Lose" contingent. One of their own bid his final farewell. Just a minute earlier, Bobby Reynolds fittingly served out

Entering Tuesday, Australian men had combined to go 0 for 15 in sets won at the 2020 edition of Roland Garros. Alexei Popyrin would fall in straight sets at the start of the day, extending the misery for those hoping to see the green and gold make another big splash

Reporting from Matt Fitzgerald and Kamakshi Tandon. This past Sunday, Novak Djokovic spoke openly about his concerns of potentially being mandated into taking a COVID-19 vaccination before returning to the ATP tour. The stance, which was expressed in Serbian with fellow athletes during a Facebook Live chat, quickly blew up.

LONDON (AP) — All it took was a couple of questionable calls for Novak Djokovic to snap at the chair umpire in the second game of his third-round match at Wimbledon. "That's two points in a row at the beginning of the match," Djokovic said, before telling official Jake Garner:

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian Open quarterfinalists Serena Williams and Johanna Konta have never met on a tennis court, but Konta knows the American well — from watching Williams play when the Australian-born British player was a youngster and in her teens. "Just because of the longevity of her career,

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Roger Federer got cranky at the chair umpire for a technology flaw in his Australian Open quarterfinal match, using the rare emotional outburst as motivation. It helped. The 36-year-old Federer, now the oldest semifinalist in Melbourne in 41 years, beat long-time rival Tomas Berdych 7-6 (1),

NEW YORK (AP) — Sloane Stephens' remarkably rapid rise from a ranking of 957th in early August to U.S. Open champion on Saturday began with the slow work of coming back from surgery on her left foot. After being off tour for 11 months because of her injury, Stephens easily

Watch Venus and Serena face off in Indian Wells—with Lindsay Davenport and Ted Robinson calling the action LIVE—tonight on Tennis Channel: 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT. The last time Venus and Serena Williams were supposed to play each other at Indian Wells was in 2001. Things didn’t go so well.

PARIS—Sloane Stephens’ 70-minute, 6-3, 6-1 win over Daria Kasatkina on Wednesday was a briefly fascinating duel and a quietly masterful performance, both of which were wrapped in the scores of a routinely one-sided result. The match, despite its brevity, went through three stages. For the first three games, the American

It seems that Madison Keys and I were on similar wavelengths on Friday. Watching her go up 5-2 in the first set against 120th-ranked Evgeniya Rodina, I was struck by how easy she was making everything look, and how calm and composed she appeared to be as she walked to

World No. 1 Ashleigh Barty shook off a scratchy middle set to get past Slovenia’s Tamara Zidansek on Saturday, 6-4, 1-6, 6-3, and move into the third round of the WTA 1000 event in Madrid. Next up for the 2019 French Open champion: 2020 French Open champion Iga Swiatek. “Real

MASON, Ohio (AP) — Defending champion Karolina Pliskova pulled off a doubleheader sweep Friday at the Western & Southern Open, reaching the semifinals by winning a pair of matches with little rest in-between. Rafael Nadal couldn't do the same. Pliskova completed a match that was suspended overnight because of rain,

ROME, Italy—Daniil Medvedev withstood an incredible challenge from Hamad Medjedovic, surviving the 20-year-old rising star, 7-6 (5), 2-6, 7-5 to reach the fourth round of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia. "I was not playing the way I wanted to," Medvedev said straight off court after the match. "I never found the

ROME, Italy—It started as a joke, but Taylor “Claylor” Fritz is deadly serious about his clay-court confidence at the Internazionali BNL d’Italia. “For me, clay season's a huge part of the season,” he said after a 6-2, 6-7 (11), 6-1 win over Grigor Dimitrov. “It's three Masters, some other tournaments,

“Oh my God, I don’t have my level, I don’t even have one final, I’m playing so bad, blah, blah, blah.” That’s what Daniil Medvedev said he told his wife before the Paris ATP Masters 1000 began. “I was crying,” Medvedev said, before backtracking a little. “Well, not crying, but

There are many ways to end a tennis match with a flourish: You might do it with a line-clipping ace, a fearsome forehand, or even a tweener. On Tuesday in Rome, Coco Gauff, who ran track in high school, did it in her own, unique way: With an improvised version

Despite the tours' five-month suspensions and a revised ranking system that made it tougher to make major moves upward, four players—Sofia Kenin, Denis Shapovalov, Diego Schwartzman and Andrey Rublev—managed to break through into their tours' Top 10 for the first time in 2020. Here are 10 players who could do