Lleyton Hewitt says Japan’s Kei Nishikori can contend for Grand Slam titles in the future. Nishikori, ranked No. 16, lost to Hewitt earlier this year in Brisbane, but then reached the fourth round of the Australian Open. There, he lost to Rafael Nadal, 7-6, 7-5, 7-6. "In terms of the

TIANJIN, China (AP) U.S. Open champion Flavia Pennetta lost in the first round of the Tianjin Open on Tuesday, hurting her chances of qualifying for the WTA Finals in Singapore. The top-seeded Italian lost to No. 414-ranked qualifier Lyudmyla Kichenok of Ukraine 6-3, 7-5. Pennetta is currently in the eighth

Coming into Acapulco, Jacopo Berrettini had lost all eight sets he previously contested in ATP Tour qualifying matches. The 24-year-old required a wild card to gain entry into the qualies stage of the 500-level event and it looked like the Italian’s singles stint would be short lived Saturday when he

Like players, tournaments continue to suffer during the coronavirus-enforced tennis lockdown that has stretched to almost two months. Yes, it’s only officially been two months, but feels like an age. Events on all three major surfaces have sustained heavyweight blows, beginning with the unofficial fifth Grand Slam of Indian Wells

Sam Groth and Nicole Gibbs are giving fans a behind-the-scenes look at the world of professional tennis all year long in My Tennis Life. To read more updates from Sam and Nicole, go to tennischannel.com. Checking in after a tough first-round loss on Saturday in Cincy. After a good start,

Frenchman Richard Gasquet and Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov came not to blows but to cramps and upchucking at Roland Garros during a 38-stroke rally in their third-round match. Dimitrov nearly lost his shorts in the midst of some painful cramping, while Gasquet lost his lunch, his dejeuner, after ending the point

NOTTINGHAM, England (AP) Seeded players Karin Knapp and Ajla Tomljanovic lost in the first round of the Nottingham Open on Monday as top-level women's tennis returned to the central England grass-court venue for the first time in 42 years. The fourth-seeded Knapp lost 6-4, 6-2 to Yanina Wickmayer of Belgium,

Pete Sampras, who lost the majority of his tennis memorabilia when it was stolen from a public storage facility in Los Angeles last week, says he had no insurance to cover the loss, reports businessinsurance.com. Sampras still has 13 of his 14 Grand Slam winning trophies, but lost his 1994

PARIS—Eugenie Bouchard, who lost in the first round of Roland Garros, says she still cannot figure out why she isn’t playing better. The No. 6 seed reached the semifinals in Paris last year, but has only won one of her previous nine matches. She lost to world No. 44 Kristina

Serena Williams has taken a wild card into the Cincinnati WTA Premier 5 tournament. Williams, who lost to Elina Svitolina in the third round of singles at the Olympic Games, intended to stay through both weeks in Rio and had not originally entered Cincinnati. She also lost with her sister,

LINZ, Austria -- Top-seeded Angelique Kerber defeated Patricia Mayr-Achleitner of Austria 6-3, 6-1 in the quarterfinals of the Generali Ladies on Friday to secure the final spot in the season-ending WTA Championships. "Qualifying for Istanbul is a great achievement," Kerber said. "It's the reward for my consistency, though I've had

Rafael Nadal continued his march through the Wimbledon draw with a dismissive 6-2, 6-2, 6-2 win over Joao Sousa on Monday. The win puts the world No. 2 into the quarterfinals for the sixth time. Nadal and Sousa had played twice before with Nadal winning both times—though both meetings were

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TORONTO (AP) Maria Sharapova lost in the third round of the Rogers Cup on Thursday, 6-3, 7-5 to 135th-ranked Galina Voskoboeva of Kazakhstan. This was the Russian's second tournament since losing to Petra Kvitova in the Wimbledon final. Sharapova lost to Serena Williams in the quarterfinals at Stanford last month.

WIMBLEDON, England—Roger Federer, who hasn’t won a Grand Slam title since 2012, lost to world No. 1 Novak Djokovic in the Wimbledon final for the second consecutive year. The 33-year-old fell to Djokovic in five sets last year, and lost to the Serbian in four sets on Sunday. Federer has

Petra Kvitova, a two-time Wimbledon champion, lost to Johanna Konta in her second match at Eastbourne and admits that she’s trying to regain confidence. “I think that I'm kind of feeling that I am playing well, even though I kind of lost some of the matches in a couple of

Jack Sock might be the most surprising last-minute qualifier in the history of the ATP Finals. The American was ranked No. 24 heading into Paris, but everything fell into place with other contenders dropping and Sock left as the last man standing. The new No. 9 was drawn into the

Angelique Kerber’s underwhelming start to the 2017 season only got worse on Wednesday when she lost her opening-round match to 32nd-ranked Daria Kasatkina in Doha. The top seed at the Qatar Total Open received a bye into the second round, where she lost one of the most peculiar matches of

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- Argentina lost the Davis Cup doubles on Saturday -- falling behind 2-1 against the Czech Republic in the semifinals -- and also lost Juan Martin Del Potro for Sunday's deciding singles. Del Potro defeated Radek Stepanek on Friday in singles playing with an inflamed left wrist

Milos Raonic says he has taken a big step this season, finishing at a career-high No. 3 in the rankings. He secured the No. 3 ranking in London this past week. By winning two round-robin matches to reach the semifinals of the ATP World Tour Finals, he finished in front