BEIJING (AP)—Top-seeded Novak Djokovic defeated David Ferrer of Spain 6-2, 6-4 on Monday to defend his China Open title and claim his second championship of the year heading into this week’s ATP Masters in Shanghai. In the women’s final, top-ranked Caroline Wozniacki beat No. 3 Vera Zvonareva 6-3, 3-6, 6-3.

When you have a big, lefty serve like Michael Llodra's, you can be a little like the spoiled child of rich parents. You know that no matter how much trouble you get into, you can get bailed out at the snap of a finger. However, you need to deploy that

Every morning of the French Open, we'll take a look back at a memorable match that occurred on that calendar day at Roland Garros. June 3, 2001: Gustavo Kuerten d. Michael Russell, 3-6, 4-6, 7-6 (3), 6-3, 6-1

NEW YORK—Andrea Petkovic busted out a new variation of the robot dance to celebrate her 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 win over China's Jie Zheng, but there was nothing mechanical about her performance. The No. 10 seed won the wildly fluctuating second-round match by doing what she needs to in order to

WATCH: Kostyuk and Badosa documented their flight from Abu Dhabi to Melbourne in January (Instagram/@kostyukmarta)

• Mahut By Jackie Roe, TW Social Director* (Like the photo? Has nothing to do with this post, but I couldn't resist.) Evening, TWibe! Just a week in and I’m already adjusted to writing down “2011.” Scary how quickly it happens. I hope everyone’s new year is off to an

• by Jackie Roe, TW Social Director* Hi, everyone! I’m keeping it simple this week, since we’ve all got the Open on the brain . . . First up, your official invite to our USO TW gathering: When: Sunday, 9/4. Let's set the start time as 9 PM, but night

Afandab2By TennisWorld Contributing Editor Andrew Burton Morning, all. Well, was that fun last night? James Blake and Rafael Nadal clearly studied the playbooks Andrew Friedman and I set out for them, and played one of the matches of the tournament. Out of 173 points played, Blake took 86 and Nadal

Mexico by Jackie Roe, TW Social Director Hi there, TWibe. Apologies for not posting last week—I figured you were all too occupied with the Fedal madness to notice anyhow. (Can you believe it’s only been a week since that match? Feels like ages ago. Being a tennis fan is

One of the more frustrating aspects of reading about tennis in the mainstream media is the way most reporters either ignore or don't have the mental firepower to write well about the way strategy and/or technique affects the outcome of tennis matches. Now that I think of it, television commentators

Howdy, Tribe. I've been struggling with the blogging software for a few hours and lost this post a little while ago (bummer), but thankfully it's an OT table-setter, so no earth-shattering content was lost. In fact, for most of this morning I was editing a Tennis Life piece for the

Good mornin'; everyone. It looks like Maria Sharapova got a welcome break from her struggles; her beatdown of Nadia Petrova at Stanford should help her confidence. She won 1-and-2, and made this trenchant observation afterward: “I was aggressive the whole way through. I didn’t have many letdowns and even when

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Two-time Wimbledon champion Andy Murray said Sunday "it's impossible" to know yet whether he will be able to compete at the grass-court Grand Slam tournament, even if he is "feeling better every day" as he recovers from surgery to remove a cyst from his spine. The

Every week Baseline will select a “Player of the Week.” That athlete may not always win the highest category tournament that week, but perform the best compared to their recent playing history.

While her Buffalo Bills have ended their 2021 season, Jessica Pegula is just starting her campaign Down Under and she's our guest this week on the TENNIS.com Podcast. The world No. 64 has been in modified quarantine for two weeks as she prepares for the Yarra Valley Classic WTA 500

Howdy, Tribe. I'm off today, trying to deal with what now appears to be a 48-plus attack of some kind of respiratory infection - you know when you don't just cough, but bark like a dog? That's what I've got, along with some other bizarre it-should-be-a-cold- but-it-ain't type symptoms. But

The baseline was the starting line as Roger Federer repeatedly charged forward in his Wimbledon return. Looking fit and playing fast, Federer operated like a man going places in overwhelming Paolo Lorenzi, 6-1, 6-1, 6-3, to roll into the second round. The first meeting between the Grand Slam king and

LONDON—Having already qualified for the semifinals, Rafael Nadal guaranteed himself the theoretically easier route through them by finishing at top of his group—ensuring that he will play the runner-up of Group B (either Roger Federer or Juan Martin del Potro) on Sunday, reserving any potential meeting with Novak Djokovic for

PARIS (AP) -- About a week after her engagement to two-time major golf champion Rory McIlroy was called off, Caroline Wozniacki exited the French Open in the first round. The 13th-seeded Wozniacki, a former No. 1 and the runner-up at the 2009 U.S. Open, lost 7-6 (5), 4-6, 6-2 on

NEW YORK (AP) Serena Williams swung through her service motion with no ball to hit. Waiting for her injured opponent to return to the court Monday night, Williams climbed out of her chair to keep her arm loose and her mind focused. No matter that the player on the other