Rafael Nadal makes his return to competition having dropped to No. 3 in the world rankings, but has landed in the bottom half of the draw away from top seed Roger Federer. Novak Djokovic is also in the bottom half and enters a Masters event as the No. 2 player

French Open champ and Francesca Schiavone and finalist Sam Stosur have both exited in the first round of Wimbledon. Schiavone lost 6-7(0), 7-5, 6-1 to Vera Dushevina, while Stosur went out 6-4, 6-4 against Kaia Kanepi. "Neither of us had made it that far at the French and then had

U.S. player Irina Falconi, who has reached the final of the Pan American Games and will play Puerto Rico’s Monica Puig for the gold medal, tells the AP that it is possible for her to reach No. 1 some day. "Why not?" the 21-year-old Falconi said. Falconi is ranked No.

LOS ANGELES (AP)—Grand Slam champions Martina Navratilova and Lindsay Davenport have signed multiyear contract extensions with Tennis Channel. Both are part of the channel’s coverage of the Australian Open, which starts in a week. Navratilova will continue to be Tennis Channel’s lead match analyst in Melbourne. Davenport will work for

WIMBLEDON, England (AP)—Andy Roddick has defeated fellow American Rajeev Ram in straight sets to advance to the second round at Wimbledon. Roddick, who lost an epic final last year against Roger Federer, beat the No. 92-ranked Ram 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 Monday. Seeded fifth, Roddick never faced a break point and

Thanksgiving was celebrated on Thursday, and plenty of players and tennis figures gave thanks for great people and good food from Madison Keys and Sloane Stephens to Jimmy Connors.

Despite losing her 11th consecutive match to Serena Williams in the Miami final, Maria Sharapova says she will one day again upend the American. "Today I certainly played a lot better and had my chances," she told reporters. "There's no reason why I couldn't win. I was playing well --

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ATLANTA (AP) Organizers had good reason to worry that the field for the Atlanta Open would suffer if top players took this week off to prepare for the Olympics. Instead, Atlanta has attracted all four Americans who will play singles in London: Ryan Harrison, John Isner, Andy Roddick and Donald

ANDY RODDICK WILL TURN 26 during the first week of the U.S. Open. But as Boris Becker famously observed, you measure a tennis player’s life in “dog years,” so it’s hardly surprising that Roddick sometimes waxes sentimental and savors his memories, separating the wheat of satisfaction from the chaff of

STUTTGART, Germany(AP) Now that she has the No. 1 ranking she's craved, Dinara Safina is looking ahead to her next goal of winning a Grand Slam tournament. Safina turned 23 on Monday and received a pink cake from the organizers of the Porsche Grand Prix, her first tournament since she

WASHINGTON(AP) Three days after losing the Wimbledon final, Venus Williams sported the same look - the classy white dress and white visor. Everything else was very different. This was World Team Tennis in a temporary stadium built on a parking lot in downtown D.C., not the hallowed grounds of the

Nothing Keeps Leon Sanit, 97, Off the Court. It’s like clockwork. Every weekday at 11 A.M., 97-year-old Leon Sanit arrives at the Oakwood Apartments courts in Los Angeles. He plays singles for an hour or two with the teaching pro or a member half his age. If no one’s around,

MADRID (AP) Roger Federer came close to another upset before finally beating Feliciano Lopez in three gripping sets at the Madrid Open, and rivals Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic continued their winning streaks with ease. Federer, beaten by Jurgen Melzer in Monte Carlo last month, saved a match point in

WATCH: Tommy Paul defeats Daniel Evans in the 2022 Davis Cup Finals

WATCH: Pegula needed three sets to defeat 2022 Roland Garros semifinalist Martina Trevisan in Madrid on Monday.

Saturday marked a sublime semifinal day at the ATP’s Rolex Paris Masters event—a pair of crackling and dramatic three-setters. The first continued the surprising run of unseeded Grigor Dimitrov, who took out Stefanos Tsitsipas, 6-3, 6-7 (1), 7-6 (3) in a high-quality matchup of rare similarity: both boast one-handed backhands.

PERTH, Australia (AP) — Kati Boulter and Cameron Norrie helped Britain beat host Australia on the opening day of the United Cup tennis tournament, while Spain won the decisive mixed double to edge Brazil 2-1. The tournament involving mixed teams from 18 countries is being played in Perth and Sydney

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — One could never accuse Venus Williams of being sensitive about her age. Not the way she keeps making self-deprecating jokes about it at the Australian Open. Case in point: Asked about the Australian great Margaret Court after her third-round win over China's Duan Yingying at Margaret

“She’s in the mood tonight,” the TV commentator from Singapore declared as Caroline Wozniacki pounced on another short ball and pounded another forehand winner home. That doesn’t sound like the normal scenario for how a Wozniacki point ends, does it? But nothing was especially normal about her 58-minute, 6-2, 6-0