Backcourt Baby NewsAnother first for Ashley Harkleroad, the first professional tennis player to pose for a nude pictorial in Playboy: According to online reports, Harkleroad and her coach and fiancé Chuck Adams welcomed their first child, a baby boy weighing 7 pounds, 12 ounces, on March 25. Harkleroad, a

Maria Sharapova is first and foremost a tennis player. There’s no doubt about that. You don’t get to No. 1 in the world, win two Grand Slams and more than a dozen tournaments by the age of 20 without having dedication to your craft. Her desire to win is unquestioned,

The summer hardcourt season gets a little hotter this year with the addition of the Beijing Olympics. So who will it be in the torrid, politically charged atmosphere of Beijing? An out-of-nowhere champion like Marc Rosset or Nicolas Massu? Or a gold medalist for the ages like Andre Agassi or

SYDNEY, Australia(AP) Top-seeded Serena Williams and No. 2 Dinara Safina made short work of their second-round opponents Tuesday to move into the Sydney International quarterfinals. Williams, who was stretched to three sets and saved four match points in her opening match against Samantha Stosur of Australia, beat Sara Errani of

When Pete Sampras called it quits after winning his 14th Grand Slam singles title, he was certain that record would stand for quite some time. Enter, Roger Federer. `I really thought that 14 would be a number that would be very tough to tie and break,'' Sampras said Friday in

WIMBLEDON, England(AP) Right, Wimbledon ladies, time to earn your keep by playing best-of-five sets like the men. Not only is it unfair that women, by playing at most three sets, get a better hourly pay rate than the men. More importantly, women are deprived of a format that has provided

WIMBLEDON, England(AP) Even with three of the last four major titles in hand, Serena Williams is still upset about the one that got away. She beat sister Venus for her third Wimbledon title Saturday, making the younger Williams the reigning champion at the U.S. Open, the Australian Open and the

COLUMBIA, S.C.(AP) Chuck Kriese has sat in the Wimbledon coach's box, battled swarms of mosquitoes in his home and carefully sidestepped pythons in his first year of molding Southeast Asian tennis in Thailand. Through it all the former longtime Clemson tennis coach has managed to keep his sense of purpose,

NEW YORK(AP) Check-out time finally came for Jesse Witten, though he'll leave New York feeling like something much better than a third-round loser. He spent two weeks at Flushing Meadows, the first working his way through U.S. Open qualifying and the second pulling off two upsets, then putting a scare

PARIS(AP) Samantha Stosur vs. Francesca Schiavone sounds a little like a first-round pairing, and a year ago at the French Open, it was. Stosur won that matchup between two veteran players who had never made a splash in a Grand Slam tournament. On Saturday they'll meet again, this time in

LONDON (AP)—After relentlessly running each other all over the court for more than three hours in a match that flip-flopped throughout, Rafael Nadal got the breaks he needed Saturday to beat Andy Murray 7-6 (5), 3-6, 7-6 (6). The top-ranked Spaniard, however, had to overcome a mid-match slump to reach

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) Rafael Nadal's left foot is bothering him, and that alone is giving just about every tennis fan in Britain hope that Andy Murray can finally end the nation's Wimbledon drought. They will play each other in the semifinals on Friday. `I'm not worried about my foot,'' said

For years, Barbora Krejcikova shined brightest so long as someone else was by her side. In 2021, she stepped out of the shadows and enjoyed greater success than ever before, evolving from also-ran to eloquent elder stateswoman in less than 12 months. Long the lesser-known partner of doubles No. 1

WATCH: Roberto Bautista Agut was among the first to kick off the 2022 season with a win, overcoming Chile's Cristian Garin in two sets.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Sofia Kenin was the Australian Open champion in 2020, and made it to the final of the French Open, too, that year, when she climbed to a career-high ranking of No. 4. She's going to drop a lot closer to No. 100 after a first-round exit

WATCH: Tauson won her second WTA title of 2021 in Luxembourg, foreshadowing her major breakthrough in Melbourne.

HIGHLIGHTS: Swiatek outhits Kvitova in Miami quarters

MADRID (AP) — When Carlos Alcaraz played in his first Madrid Open as an 18-year-old, his goal was to gain experience and learn from the top players. Only a year later, Alcaraz already feels he belongs among the best. The Spanish teenage sensation capped another impressive week with a straight-set

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WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — The Russian Tennis Federation was quick to claim Elena Rybakina as "our product" on her run to the women's title at Wimbledon. They then praised her training program in the country after she won the Venus Rosewater Dish as Wimbledon champion while representing Kazakhstan. "It's the