Zhang Zhizhen has made history at the Mutua Madrid Open, winning a nail-biter against Taylor Fritz in the fourth round on Tuesday, 3-6, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (8), to become the first Chinese player ever to reach the quarterfinals of a Masters 1000 event. It had already been a tournament full

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Carlos Alcaraz — not four-time defending champion Novak Djokovic — and Iga Swiatek were seeded No. 1 for Wimbledon on Wednesday, as expected, because the All England Club adhered to the ATP and WTA rankings. Alcaraz overtook Djokovic atop the men's standings on Monday. Djokovic has

WATCH: 50 Years Later, the 1973 ATP Wimbledon Boycott remains a major tipping point moment.

2023 By The Numbers - 65-12: Overall win-loss record - 17-2: Grand Slam win-loss record (AO DNP, RG SF, W 🏆, USO SF) - 15: Weeks spent at No. 1, across four stints - January 2 to January 29 - March 20 to April 2 - May 22 to June

Naomi Osaka is one of the most accomplished active tennis players out there, and she’s about to start a new chapter in her career as she makes her comeback as a mom-on-tour in Brisbane this week. As a reminder of just how impressive her career has been so far, here

ADELAIDE, Australia (AP) — Second-seeded Jessica Pegula secured a 4-6, 6-2, 6-3 win over fellow American Bernarda Pera on Wednesday to advance to the quarterfinals of the Adelaide International. Pera earned a spot in the main draw as a so-called lucky loser from qualifying and then upset former No. 2-ranked

The first semifinal at the 2024 Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships between Alexander Bublik and Andrey Rublev came to a shocking conclusion on Friday when Rublev was defaulted for unsportsmanlike conduct, trailing, 7-6 (4), 6-7 (5), 5-6. Bublik, the No. 7 seed who himself had smashed a racquet following a

You’ve probably heard that tennis is (a) a game of inches, and (b) highly mental. By now, most of us don’t need to be convinced of the truth behind these clichés. But in case you did, Novak Djokovic and Hubert Hurkacz gave us fresh evidence on the most important point

Novak Djokovic - Seed: 1 - Career-Best Ranking: 1 - Age: 37 - Career Titles: 98 - Grand Slam Titles: 24 — Australian Open (10: 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023), French Open (3: 2016, 2021, 2023), Wimbledon (7: 2011, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022),

MADRID (AP) — Rafael Nadal got through another young opponent and showed signs he was getting closer to his best form on clay as he defeated Alexei Popyrin, 6-3, 6-3, to make it to the Madrid Open quarterfinals on Thursday. Nadal overcame eight aces and saved five break points against

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — LOOKAHEAD TO MONDAY After Wimbledon takes the middle Sunday off for the last time, "Manic Monday" awaits. The grass-court Grand Slam tournament is the only major where all of the men's and women's fourth-round matches are scheduled for the same day — a tradition that will

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — LOOKAHEAD TO WEDNESDAY Venus Williams is into the second round at Wimbledon for the 20th time, and her opponent Wednesday will be No. 21-seeded Ons Jabeur, who lost only three games in her first-round win. The 41-year-old Williams is coming off her first match victory since

LONDON (AP) — Bernard Tomic was fined $15,000 at Wimbledon and dropped by his racket sponsor Thursday — not for something he did during his first-round loss, but for what he said during a news conference afterward. The penalty for unsportsmanlike conduct was announced two days after the 24-year-old Australian

Each weekday, we'll preview one must-see match that you'll find on Tennis Channel Plus, the digital network for the devoted tennis fan. To subscribe to Tennis Channel Plus, go to BuyTCPlus.com It has been only two matches, but Kei Nishikori looks ready to prove to the world that he is

Stan Wawrinka has receipts, and he's not afraid to show 'em. The three-time Grand Slam champion threw some major shade Stefanos Tsitsipas' way in response to the Greek's latest lengthy complaint regarding the ATP's schedule by unearthing a video of Tsitsipas singing a very different tune. Five of the tour's

There aren’t a lot of firsts left for Carlos Alcaraz to achieve, but he got another one on Saturday: reaching the first indoor final of his career. The four-time Grand Slam champion and former world No. 1 battled past Hubert Hurkacz, 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-3, to move through to the

Wake up and smell the clay. 🧱😌 Players are flocking from all over the world to compete in the first clay ATP Masters 1000 event of the year—the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters in Monaco, where the red clay is as bright as the sunlight reflecting off the Mediterranean Sea. Alexander Zverev,

After a rain-shortened opening day, it was all hands on deck at Melbourne Park on Tuesday. Play began at 10: 30 in the morning, and is still going as I write this 16 hours later. For all of the matches on the schedule, though, there weren’t a lot of newsworthy

PARIS (AP) — The Latest on the French Open (all times local): ___ 11:10 p.m. Alexander Zverev has reached his third French Open quarterfinal by eliminating Kei Nishikori 6-4, 6-1, 6-1. The No. 6-seeded Zverev is seeking his first Grand Slam title. He was the runner-up at last year's U.S.

This year marks the 10th anniversary of Tommy Paul’s triumph over Taylor Fritz in the final of the Roland Garros boy’s final, a win that some took as a national coming-of-age event. Perhaps the American men, long averse to clay, would soon be as proficient on the dirt as so