Jarkko Nieminen changed his routine in Kuala Lumpur. Instead of staying in his hotel room to enjoy a coffee, he took a walk, saw a bit of Malaysia’s capital and sipped his coffee at a place in the city. Don’t get Nieminen wrong. He wasn’t slacking when it came to

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla.— With a single tweet, American pro Jared Hiltzik became the online face of the resistance against the new ITF World Tennis Tour. "It’s tough," Hiltzik wrote on February 26. "Playing some of the best tennis of my life right now and at [No.] 350 I can’t get

It was on this day 40 years ago—April 7, 1980—when Tracy Austin climbed to No. 1 in the WTA rankings. It was significant at the time but even more so in retrospect, as the future International Tennis Hall Of Fame inductee became the only player to crash the Chris Evert-Martina

Playing a Masters 1000 event for only the third time in his career, 19-year-old Jannik Sinner became just the fourth male teenager to reach the finals in the history of the Miami Open. “I think it's nice to play finals here in Miami,” said Sinner, “but, you know, as I

The One That Got Away. It’s one of the oldest themes in the book, and we’re not talking about The Angler’s Digest. Everyone seems to have experienced an unexpected, perhaps even undeserved loss that still inspires regret. It could be a job, a romantic partner, an investment opportunity, a ...

The first women’s semifinal in Rome on Thursday took off and landed the same way, but with two different players at the controls. Peyton Stearns piloted the proceedings through the first five games. The American was coming off three straight third-set tiebreaker wins, and her self-belief showed. She was calm,

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Having come together to compete last month in Australia, the traveling tennis circus spends February in all corners of the globe. Here’s a look at three pro finals, each played on a different continent—Asia, Europe, North America. Abu Dhabi: Belinda Bencic vs. Liudmila Samsonova The second edition of this WTA

On May 15, 2006, the notoriously divided world of tennis found something that it could agree on: that the rivalry between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, after simmering for two years, had come to a boil over the course of a five-hour final at the Foro Italico in Rome. More

Over the past two weeks, the world has seen a Paris that has been transformed for the Olympic Games. Athletes floated down the Seine during the Opening Ceremony, and are swimming in its (mostly) clean waters. Five glowing, multicolored Rings have been affixed to the Eiffel Tower’s 135-year-old iron girders.

British tennis chief Roger Draper says critics have taken aim at the Lawn Tennis Association because it's an easy target, The Independent reports. Sport England recently cut the LTA's funding by $842,000 dollars in the wake of poor adult participation figures, where the number of adults playing tennis at least

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) Serena Williams is on the U.S. Fed Cup roster for matches against Ukraine on April 21-22, but her sister Venus is not. `She just played Miami and Charleston, so she's trying to gauge now her recovery, how much she can play,'' U.S. Fed Cup captain Mary

OEIRAS, Portugal (AP) Kaia Kanepi of Estonia won the Estoril Open on Saturday, saving two match points to beat Carla Suarez Navarro of Spain 3-6, 7-6 (6), 6-4. Among the men, defending champion Juan del Potro of Argentina and Richard Gasquet of France won semifinals and will play for the

The 2012 ATP season became a decrescendo and then an all-out nosedive for Donald Young, the relatively diminutive but crafty southpaw from Atlanta. He had a sterling 2011 campaign by his standards, ducking into the Top 30 in the world, beating Andy Murray at Indian Wells, upsetting Stanislas Wawrinka in

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Former Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova defeated Caroline Wozniacki 6-3, 6-4 Friday to reach the final of the Dubai Championships. She'll play Sara Errani of Italy, who defeated her doubles partner Roberta Vinci 6-3, 6-3. "She has a good forehand with a big spin and quite

Don Catlin, one of the founders of athletic drug testing, tells The Guardian that tennis is wasting its time adopting a biological passport program. The ITF and the tours announced they would do so last week, as well as increase out-of-competition testing. Catlin is the president of Anti-Doping Research, a

Nicole Vaidisova may have lost her game against Jelena Jankovic in the quarterfinals of the French Open, but she has apparently found her love game off the court—with Austrian pro Jurgen Melzer. A headline on the 18-year-old Czech's website read “Nicole’s Love: Austrian Tennis Player Melzer. “He’s Nicole’s boyfriend,” the

The Toray Pan Pacific Open at Tokyo is without some of the game’s brightest women stars this week. Venus Williams, Maria Sharapova, and Serena Williams are among the absentees citing injury. While Serena made headlines by winning her ninth Grand Slam title in New York earlier this month, she continued

HOBART, Australia(AP) Iveta Benesova remained on course for her first WTA title in five years by reaching the final of the Hobart International with a 6-1, 6-3 win over Slovakian Magdelena Rybarikova on Thursday. Benesova will play fellow Czech Petra Kvitova, who beat Virginie Razzano of France 6-4, 6-2 in

ACAPULCO, Mexico(AP) Argentina's Juan Ignacio Chela rallied to beat Pablo Cuevas of Uruguay 2-6, 6-3, 6-2 on Monday to advance to the second round of the Acapulco Open. ``This is a very important victory, Cuevas is a good player who is coming from the qualifying rounds, he played a great