NEW YORK—As defending US Open champion and world No. 1 Naomi Osaka entered Arthur Ashe Stadium just after noon on Monday to play her fourth-round match against 13th-seeded Belinda Bencic, the good news was that she was certain to have strong crowd support. Osaka’s gracious post-match interaction with Coco Gauff

Howdy, Tribe. It's a somber, rainy day in game-rich Andes: Luke is torturing Biscuit, as usual. This morning, he dragged the orange mouse-and-chipmunk Terminator to the train set and rassled him to the ground with the command: "Biscuit, you are not allowed to play with the trains because you don't

NEW YORK—Players at the U.S. Open deliver a lot of aces. They also bang out a lot of unforced errors, shrieks and grunts, topspin forehands and backhand winners. They also leave a trail of sometimes intriguing, sometimes funny, sometimes insightful, and often bizarre quotes. So let’s look at yesterday, Day

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) Umpire Kerrilyn Cramer dropped a furry yellow tennis ball on a spot on the second show court at the Australian Open - and it didn't bounce. Cramer lifted her arms in a shrug to the crowd and walked off the court. Maria Sharapova said she had noticed

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) The Bryan brothers are more like Warner Bros. at the Australian Open. The world's best men's doubles pair, American twins Mike and Bob Bryan, have been making mini-movies from behind the scenes of international tennis and posting them online, where they are getting a growing following. The

WATCH: ATP & WTA Could Merge Into One Tour | The Break

LONDON—Doesn’t Wimbledon aim for moderation and understatement in all things? It does, except, it seems, when it comes to its second Monday. Then the tournament suddenly snaps, throws all of that pent-up caution and discretion to the wind, and schedules everyone all at once all over the grounds. That’s where

When London hosted the Olympic Games in 2012, Neal Skupski had a front-row seat—from a couch in his living room. His eyes were glued to the television screen whenever Usain Bolt ran, and he followed with the same intensity each time Andy Murray shined for Team Great Britain on Centre

No rest for the weary? On the ATP tour, it’s more like no rest for the winners. Today the four finalists in Tokyo and Beijing, after a sweaty week of success, must clean themselves up and get ready for an even more important event, the Shanghai Masters 1000. Fourteen months

Who said the Big Four are in decline? A decade after they took over the men’s game, Andy Murray, Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal are the Top 4 seeds at Wimbledon. This time, though, the roles have been reversed. While Murray and Djokovic, who have won the last

MLB SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Arizona Diamondbacks set a major league record with their 23rd straight road loss, making dubious history in getting trounced by the San Francisco Giants 10-3 Thursday. The dejected D-backs trudged off the field and quietly made their way back to Oracle Park's visiting clubhouse

For a sport that has had its season suspended, there sure is a lot to talk about in tennis these days, isn’t there? This week the US Open confirmed that it will go on as scheduled, and the ATP and WTA tour announced that they’ll return in August. Last weekend

Bethanie Mattek-Sands began the Credit One Bank Invitational with the first pick, and finished it with the last shot. The five-time Grand Slam doubles champion struck a routine putaway volley after a weak return—set up by a wide serve from, in all likelihood, that first selection in the draft, Sofia

“Always the beginning of the clay season is very exciting to see who’s in the best form,” Holger Rune expressed to me earlier this month in Monte Carlo. While the Dane was forced to retire from his opening match at the Rolex Monte Carlo Masters due to food poisoning, Rune

Speculation, speculation, speculation, that’s all we’ve seen, read, or heard so far in 2011. Is Kim ready? Is the Sod ready? Will Serena ever be ready again? Is Federer going to go undefeated? Should Wozniacki just hang it up now and avoid the inevitable humiliation? Can anyone kill off that

All athletes eventually experience injury and tennis players are no exception. Go to any major tournament and stroll around the training room for a while and you may be surprised by the battlefield of walking wounded. You’ll see ankles being heavily taped, deep healing massages, supervised stretching of particular muscles,

Once upon a time in high school, Alexandra Stevenson wanted what Julia Roberts had. As she tells it, "When I was 18 years old and giving up the French Open main draw for my prom and graduation, I was playing in Miami. I needed a prom dress. Julia Roberts had

** Welcome to Florida Week! As the tours head southeast for the Miami Open, TENNIS.com and Baseline will feature all things Sunshine State. You’ll learn about the personalities, stories, teams and venues that have made Florida one of the tennis capitals of the world. We’ll also be reporting from the

Our panel of experts considers two players with a lot to lose—and two with a lot to gain—during the heart of the clay-court season.

WATCH: Monica Puig visits the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport ⤴️ The pristine lawns and shingled stone buildings at the International Tennis Hall of Fame are tucked behind an unassuming entrance in a Newport shopping area, creating the allure of a hidden gem. Indeed, the birthplace of American