Tomas Berydch says descriptions of the top players as the Big Four or Big Five don't fully capture the state of the game. Other than Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, and Novak Djokovic, only Andy Murray and Stanislas Wawrinka hold more than one Grand Slam on tour. "We are in the

WASHINGTON (AP) Venus Williams lost an Olympic tuneup Monday during a World Team Tennis match attended by first lady Michele Obama. Williams, playing for the Washington Kastles, lost 5-0 to the Boston Lobsters' Irina Falconi in the women's singles portion of the match. In the best-of-five games format, Williams -

MELBOURNE—Roger Federer, who lost in the semifinals of the Australian Open to Novak Djokovic, said he still believes he can beat the world No. 1 on the biggest stages. The 34-year-old Federer has now lost to the Serb in their last four meetings at majors. Prior to Thursday’s match, Djokovic

We’re not a week into 2017, but it already feels a lot like 2016 on the WTA tour—that is, nobody really has any clue as to what’s going on. Last year the calendar was dominated by a bevy of upsets and unexpected outcomes, and there’s no indication that the surprises

FRISCO, Texas—Casper Ruud needed a little more time to warm down on the bike Saturday after walking away with a dramatic semifinal win at the Dallas Open. The No. 2 seed was two points away from becoming the third seeded player to be tripped up by Jaume Munar this week,

MONTPELLIER, France (AP) — Jo-Wilfried Tsonga beat Pierre-Hugues Herbert 6-4, 6-2 in an all-French final of the Open Sud de France on Sunday, winning his 17th career title and denying his countryman a first. Tsonga broke the seventh-seeded Herbert's serve three times and dropped only four points throughout the match

MADRID (AP) — Venus Williams lost to Anett Kontaveit of Estonia in the first round of the Madrid Open on Saturday. Kontaveit rallied from a set down to beat the eighth-seeded Williams 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 on the outdoor clay court. "I'd lost to her two times already, and so I

WATCH: Earlier this year, Linda Noskova lost to Aryna Sabalenka in the final in Adelaide.

MELBOURNE, Australia -- Fifth-seeded Juan Martin del Potro recovered from a slow start to defeat U.S. qualifier Rhyne Williams 6-7 (1), 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 in the first round of the Australian Open on Tuesday. Del Potro, the 2009 U.S. Open champion, made several unforced errors to drop the first-set tiebreaker,

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) The Latest from the Australian Open on Sunday (all times local): 12:25 a.m. Novak Djokovic for president? His Serbian fans might think so, but the man who clinched his sixth Australian Open title on Sunday night isn't interested at the moment. Told in his post-match media conference

The No. 3-ranked Elina Svitolina, who lost her first match in the WTA Finals against Simona Halep in Singapore on Monday, says that staying positive has been important to her rise this season. “There was couple of matches that I lost were painful, to have bad memories. I learned a

WATCH: Earlier this year, Linda Noskova lost to Aryna Sabalenka in the final in Adelaide.

In 2014, Grigor Dimitrov reached his first ATP Masters 1000 semifinal at the Internazionali BNL d'Italia. Yet the renowned Rome event soon became a place to forget for the Bulgarian. Coming into this week, Dimitrov had lost five consecutive matches at the Foro Italico—four ending in three sets. With the

With 10,000 onlookers present, Novak Djokovic lost a tight exhibition match—insofar as "losing" is involved at these hit-and-giggle events—in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Gustavo Kuerten, better known to adoring fans globally as "Guga." Doffing the Darth Vader mask from about a month ago, when he lost to Sam Querrey

Venus Williams was practically all smiles in Miami, to the point that she herself seemed surprised by her disposition even after points she lost. She lost a lot of them, as it turned out, in her 6-3, 6-3 loss to Simona Halep in the fourth round of the Miami Open.

World No. 1 Angelique Kerber, who lost to Anett Kontaveit in Rome on Wednesday, admitted that she is not at her best on clay. The German lost to Kristina Mladenovic in the first round in Stuttgart, to Eugenie Bouchard in the round of 16 in Madrid, and on Wednesday she

Former No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki, who lost in the Dubai final against Elina Svitolina, 4-6, 2-6, said that she got tired and allowed her opponent to get back into the match. Last week in Doha, she also reached the final, but lost against No. 3 Karolina Pliskova. “I think I

MELBOURNE—Nick Kyrgios, who lost in the third round to Tomas Berdych at the Australian Open, said that the chair umpire was wrong for not having loud music turned off in Rod Laver Arena towards the end of the second set. “Am I hearing things?” yelled Kyrgios, who lost 6-3, 6-4,

PARIS (AP) The losses keep mounting for Eugenie Bouchard, who was so good last year and is having so much trouble nowadays. Exiting in the first round of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time in her nascent career, No. 6 Bouchard became the highest-seeded player bounced from the

In the quarterfinals of Washington, Jack Sock was up against a tall challenge in Ivo Karlovic. The 37-year-old, fresh from winning his seventh title in Newport, stands at 6'11" so Sock, who is a respectable 6'3", got innovative: