Fourhand is the Daily Spin's occasional roundup of various hits and misses on tour. RUNNING MAN: Surely this is Sam Groth as you've never seen him before. And it's delightful.

Before Rafael Nadal won his 18th and 19th Grand Slam titles, before Novak Djokovic crushed the souls of Roger Federer fans once again, and before all of Cocomania, there was Miami. This was the last hard-court tournament, before today, that Daniil Medvedev entered and failed to reach the final. Yet

“I do all the things she likes,” a frustrated Simona Halep told her coach, Darren Cahill, when he visited her in the second set of her 6-4, 6-4 loss to Maria Sharapova in Singapore on Tuesday. What exactly those things were, it was hard to say, but it was also

With the WTA Finals' five-year run in Singapore coming to an end—one year before a 10-year run in Shenzhen, China, begins—Jason de la Pena sat down with WTA CEO Steve Simon in Singapore to discuss the event's big move, and other important tour topics. Among them: **—the game's new stars,

Doubles Take looks at the teams in play on the ATP and WTA tours. THE DREAM SEASON CONTINUES At the Australian Open this year, was the Cinderella story of the tournament as he battled through the singles qualifying rounds to reach the main draw and advanced to the semifinals from

WATCH: Monica Puig runs New York City Marathon and more news on The Break.

Day 5 of the Ultimate Tennis Showdown featured five matches. Here's a running scoreboard of how they played out. Stefanos Tsitsipas d. Feliciano Lopez, 13-16, 14-16, 13-12, 16-11, 2-0 “El Torero” hit the ground running, taking the first two quarters. Having built a big lead in the second, his opponent,

Every Grand Slam event begins with 256 stories, evenly divided between the men’s and women’s singles players. Some of those stories are stock material—the overnight sensation, the local hero—while others are more subtle and still others are overlooked, or don’t command the attention they deserve. Talking to Tracy Austin on

After defeating Timea Bacsinszky in the semifinals, 20-year-old Jelena Ostapenko stopped by the Tennis Channel set at Roland Garros to discuss her remarkable run in Paris and her upcoming title match against Simona Halep.

HIGHLIGHTS: Roger Federer defeats Daniil Medvedev in first round of Shanghai Masters, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4

MY TENNIS LIFE: Tomljanovic did double duty at the 2022 US Open, documenting her run for Netflix and Tennis Channel.

Class was in session when surging American Shelby Rogers zoomed in for a guest appearance at Gerald Ford Elementary School. Rogers edged into the fourth round of the BNP Paribas Open on Sunday, dropping just two games against Irina-Camelia Begu, and is yet to drop a set in the California

PARIS (AP) — No. 1-ranked Iga Swiatek reached her second French Open final and extended her winning streak to 34 matches by beating No. 20 Daria Kasatkina 6-2, 6-1 on a sunny, breezy afternoon Thursday. Their semifinal was even at 2-all after 20 minutes, before Swiatek used her heavy forehand,

FLASHBACK: Vekic credits a fourth-round run in Rome with helping her prepare for Roland Garros.

Next week, the first Grand Slam of the year will begin. For many players, the Australian Open is a time to gauge where they are at after a busy offseason. Many Australian players are looking to claim the title or at least make a deep run in front of their

BASEL, Switzerland (AP) — Kei Nishikori ended Juan Martin del Potro's long winning run at the Swiss Indoors, edging their quarterfinal 7-5, 6-4 on Friday. Top-seeded Stan Wawrinka's long underachieving run in Basel continued when the U.S. Open champion lost 6-2, 5-7, 6-1 to 72nd-ranked qualifier Mischa Zverev of Germany.

WATCH: Colombia's Camila Osorio speaks during the trophy presentation after her run to the final in Tenerife.

Sometimes the way to turn a match around is very simple, at least according to Simona Halep. “I knew I had to change my tactics,” Halep said after her whiplash-inducing 0-6, 6-3, 6-1 win over Rogers Cup defending champion Agnieszka Radwanska on Friday in Toronto. “So I just kept the

WATCH: Zhu Lin's 2023 surge began with a quarterfinal run in Auckland in January, where she beat Venus Williams.

1. Ann Li Champion, Tenerife Ladies Open In a strong performance, Ann Li won the Tenerife Ladies Open in Spain. Only dropping one set in the first round during the week, the American earned the title in fairly dominating fashion. Li defeated Camila Osorio, 6-1, 6-4, in the final, earning