Coco Gauff successfully avoided the upset bug on Sunday as she kicked off her second week campaign at the 2024 Australian Open with a 6-1, 6-2 victory over Magdalena Fręch, guaranteeing the No. 4 seed a career-best run and maiden quarterfinal appearance in Melbourne. "I want to see the Iron

PARIS (AP)—US Open champion Emma Raducanu is out of the French Open in the second round. Raducanu lost to Aliaksandra Sasnovich of Belarus 3-6, 6-1, 6-1 to end her Roland Garros tournament debut on Wednesday. The 19-year-old Raducanu broke Sasnovich in the fifth game of the opening set, hitting consecutive

NEW YORK (AP) — Novak Djokovic will not play in the U.S. Open, as expected, because he is not vaccinated against COVID-19 and thus is not allowed to travel to the United States. Djokovic announced his withdrawal from the year's last Grand Slam tournament on Twitter on Thursday, hours before

PARIS (AP) — The Latest on the French Open (all times local): ___ 10:45 p.m. Defending champion Iga Swiatek reached the quarterfinals after beating unseeded 18-year-old Marta Kostyuk of Ukraine 6-3, 6-4 in the fourth round. Kostyuk saved one match point on her second serve at 30-40 as she held

NEW YORK (AP) — Andy Roddick was the last American man to win a Grand Slam title, all the way back at the 2003 U.S. Open. The last American woman other than Serena Williams to collect a major trophy? That was Venus Williams, at Wimbledon in 2008. Roddick is retired;

NEW YORK (AP) — Andy Murray's latest Week 1 exit at a Grand Slam tournament did not discourage him. The three-time major champion still thinks he can go toe-to-toe with the best in men's tennis — even after two hip operations, even as the years without a trip past the

At first, second, third, and even fourth glance, this is a mismatch and a blowout in the making. Serena is 4-0 against the 43rd-ranked, 32-year-old Vinci, and the eight sets they’ve played have gone like this: 6-3, 6-4, 6-2, 6-1, 6-1, 6-3, 6-4, 6-3. In the past, Serena has had

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Novak Djokovic sought assistance from a trainer for some trouble breathing Friday night, and went back-and-forth with one particularly loud spectator, but when the ball was in play at the Australian Open against Tomas Machac, all went quite smoothly for the 24-time Grand Slam champion. Djokovic,

LONDON (AP) — Everyman's everyman was back at Wimbledon on Wednesday, only instead of facing Roger Federer on Centre Court in singles, Marcus Willis was playing doubles. And instead of losing, he was winning. The straight-out-of-a-movie-script British tennis club instructor was ranked 772nd in the world a year ago when

The good news for Iga Swiatek is that, after two straight early exits in Melbourne, she returned to the Australian Open semis for the first time since 2022. This year, in her first five matches, Swiatek was exceptionally dominant, dropping just 14 games in ten sets. As Emma Navarro said

In the final round of the WTA Finals, Dominika Cibulkova dominated Angelique Kerber in a 6-3, 6-4 victory that lasted just over an hour. The Slovakian bossed the world No. 1 around the baselines, barely giving Kerber a chance to attack, keeping the pressure on throughout the match. It was

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No. 3 seed Naomi Osaka’s nightmare first round turned out to be a sweet dream as she dispatched three-time Australian Open quarterfinalist Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, 6-1, 6-2, to lead a trio of stars into into the second round in Melbourne. Osaka delighted the Rod Laver Arena crowd as she gamely answered

NEW YORK—Naomi Osaka lit up Louis Armstrong Stadium to kick off her 2024 US Open campaign, posting a strong 6-3, 6-2 victory over Jelena Ostapenko, her first in Flushing Meadows since becoming a mother. The two-time champion missed last year’s tournament while on maternity leave, giving birth to daughter Shai

The Tennis Channel Live panel had one word to describe Zheng Qinwen’s second-round defeat to Laura Siegemund at the Australian Open result: mystifying. “This is a player who won Olympic gold, reached the finals last year,” argued Jon Wertheim. “That doesn’t mean she’s winning the title, but to go out

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) Defending champion Lukas Rosol of the Czech Republic opened with a 6-4, 7-6 (4) victory Monday over Latvia's Ernests Gulbis in the first round of the Winston-Salem Open. The 6-foot-5 Rosol served 14 aces and took advantage of a break point in the seventh game of the

NEW YORK (AP) — This was a match that would not end. Should not end, one might say. Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner, two of the brightest young stars of men's tennis, traded shots of the highest quality and countless momentum swings across five sterling sets for 5 hours, 15

MONACO (AP) — Novak Djokovic will get the chance to avenge one of the more surprising losses of his career. The 24-time Grand Slam champion will face 32nd-ranked Alejandro Tabilo in his opening match of the Monte Carlo Masters. Tabilo rallied past 2014 champion Stan Wawrinka 1-6, 7-5, 7-5 in

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP)—Andy Murray will get another chance to end a near 75-year winless streak for British men in Grand Slam singles tournaments after beating Spain’s David Ferrer 4-6, 7-6 (2), 6-1, 7-6 (2) Friday to reach the Australian Open final. The semifinal win put Murray into Sunday’s final against

GENEVA (AP) — Two-time French Open runner-up Dominic Thiem is still without a win in an injury-affected season after another first-round exit on Monday in his last tournament before Roland Garros. Thiem, ranked No. 194, was beaten by No. 134 Marco Cecchinato 6-3, 6-4 at the Geneva Open. The loss