A night after surviving American Jack Sock in a three-hour, four-minute thriller in his opening match, 6-2, 4-6, 7-6 (1), Rafael Nadal was pushed to the limits against another inspired opponent in Washington D.C. on Thursday night, but this time he couldn’t escape, falling to South Africa’s Lloyd Harris, 6-4,

The Last Word returns, and each weekday, starting on Monday, December 5, we'll give you our year-end thoughts about tennis' best players—this time focusing on the ATP and WTA Top 10. We'll alternate tours each day; here's who we've looked at so far. Best of 2011 It takes only four

MONTREAL (AP)—Kim Clijsters rallied for a 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 victory over American Bethanie Mattek-Sands at the Rogers Cup on Wednesday. After dropping the first set, the fifth-seeded Clijsters was down 4-1 in the second and had to fight off two break points against the aggressive Mattek-Sands, a qualifer ranked 101st

Online editor Ed McGrogan and senior writers Peter Bodo and Steve Tignor predict four of Day 9's matches: Angelique Kerber vs. Flavia Pennetta [26] (Women's quarterfinal) Bodo: Pennetta Kerber has had the tournament of a lifetime, but she’ll run out of luck when she meets the seasoned veteran Pennetta, who

STANFORD, California (AP)—France’s Marion Bartoli, Maria Sharapova and Victoria Azarenka of Belarus advanced to the quarterfinals of the Bank of the West Classic on Thursday. Israel’s Shahar Peer, another seeded player, wasn’t as fortunate. The fourth-seeded Bartoli beat former world No. 1 Ana Ivanovic of Serbia 6-3, 6-4, for her

After dealing with knee injuries the past several seasons, 20-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer has gradually worked his way back to the ATP Tour, with a focus on conservation and preservation as he gets closer to the end of his career. But if the end is indeed approaching, should

WATCH: Tennis Channel Live talks with Sloane Stephens on Day 1 of Wimbledon.

It's Doubles Take time, your weekly look at the teams in action on the ATP and WTA tours. SHIFT INTO HIGHER GEAR After reaching a Wimbledon semifinal, making the season-ending championship field and winning multiple titles over the past few years, Americans Abigail Spears and Raquel Atawo split up before

With over a year since the last live performances, Canadian superstar Bianca Andreescu can see the post-pandemic "new normal" on the horizon, and is eager to see some of her favorite artists in concert. "It's going to be super crazy," she predicts of the potential concert crowd energy. "Seeing Drake

Neither Daniil Medvedev nor Andrey Rublev had lost a match all week and they kept that going on Sunday, dominating Italy’s Top 2 players in straight sets to bring Russia the ATP Cup title. Rublev was first up against Fabio Fognini, and though Rublev is the higher-ranked player, No. 8

Andy Roddick's margin for error had shrunk to the size of the crocodile swimming in sweat on the front of his white baseball cap as Lukasz Kubot stepped up to serve for the match at 5-4 in the second set today. Victimized by Kubot's serve-and-volley style and his own toothless

SHANGHAI (AP) For the second straight year, Roger Federer found himself in trouble in his opening match at the Shanghai Masters. This time, he couldn't pull through. The 17-time Grand Slam champion was broken late in the third set against Spanish qualifier Albert Ramos-Vinolas on Tuesday and lost 7-6 (4),

MASON, Ohio (AP) Serena Williams withdrew from the Western & Southern Open with a sore shoulder on Monday, putting her No. 1 ranking in jeopardy. Williams originally planned to skip the Cincinnati tournament, which comes right after the Olympics. When she was upset in Rio, she accepted a wild card

PARIS (AP) -- Despite their poor results at the Paris Masters, France captain Arnaud Clement is sticking with his regular players for the Davis Cup final against Switzerland. Clement has picked four players - Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Richard Gasquet, Gael Monfils and Gilles Simon - for a training camp in Bordeaux

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) Andy Murray finds it ''hypocritical'' that tennis authorities are trying to stamp out match-fixing run by gambling syndicates but have partnered with a major gambling company that is now advertising on the Australian Open's show courts. The two issues are separate but have collided at this year's

BARCELONA, Spain—Kei Nishikori moved into the quarterfinals of the Barcelona Open on Thursday with a 6-3, 7-5 win over Jeremy Chardy. Around the same time, with nearly an identical score, Alexandr Dolgopolov saw off rising teenager Karen Khachanov, 6-4, 7-5. The two will face off on Friday for a spot

LONDON (AP) — The warmup lasted longer than the actual competitive portion of Sam Querrey's day at Wimbledon. This is all Querrey wound up needing to play Saturday in the ever-so-brief resumption of a match against 12th-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France suspended the night before because of darkness at 6-5

WATCH—Court Report from Day 1 at the US Open:

What’s at Stake Proving that even the best of champions is human, an angry Carlos Alcaraz broke a racquet this summer while in the middle of a loss to Gael Monfils at the ATP Masters 1000 event in Cincinnati. Though he swiftly apologized for the outburst, it had become clear

Aryna Sabalenka surged into her second straight clay-court semifinal at the Mutua Madrid Open on Wednesday, navigating windy—and later rainy—conditions to defeat Marta Kostyuk in two tight sets, 7-6 (4), 7-6 (7). "That was a battle and the conditions were incredibly tough," Sabalenka said on court after the match. "It