WASHINGTON (AP) — Svetlana Kuznetsova won her second title at the Citi Open, and first at any WTA tournament in two years, by erasing four match points to beat Donna Vekic 4-6, 7-6 (7), 6-2 on Sunday. The No. 7 seed Vekic was one point from victory four times in

For the first time since 2015, two of the ATP's most skilled players, Kei Nishikori and David Goffin, will face off in a fantastic second-round clash from Dubai. After missing most of 2020 due to a shoulder injury, Nishikori is slowly but surely building momentum, as showcased in his Rotterdam

How does one go about ending the 21-match win streak of the top-ranked player in the world? Yulia Putintseva made it sound pretty simple. “I was just focused on playing fast, and not giving her any time, and that worked, and that’s pretty much it,” the 29-year-old, 35th-ranked Moscow native

Roger Federer says that the time taken in between points is being violated and that officials do not properly enforce it enough. At the Grand Slams, The ITF allows 20 seconds between points, while the ATP allows 25 at its tournaments. "I do believe the officials could be a bit

Following her three-set rally in the first round of the French Open, Serena Williams stated, "This isn't the Serena I have been practicing with or that I see every day." On Thursday at Roland Garros, that 'other' Serena showed up. Williams defeated qualifier Kurumi Nara, 6-3, 6-2, blasting 36 winners

LONDON -- Former champion Maria Sharapova saved six match points before falling to Angelique Kerber in the fourth round at Wimbledon on Tuesday, ending her bid to win a second title at the All England Club a decade after her first. Sharapova, a five-time major champion, saved one match point

Hubert Hurkacz’s run to the Miami Open championship will go down as one of those rough and unforgettable paths to victory. The man from Poland’s last five wins were particularly notable; none easy versus formidable opponents Denis Shapovalov, Milos Raonic, Stefanos Tsitsipas, Andrey Rublev and, in the finals, Jannik Sinner.

NEW YORK—Trudging through the thick air on Court 11, a sweat-soaked Jack Sock plopped into his court-side seat and began chomping on a banana. At that point, it looked like smelling salts might be a better option for the depleted American. Surrendering serve three times and managing just 10 points

Rafael Nadal responded to Roger Federer's comments that the time taken in between points is being violated and that officials do not properly enforce it enough. At the Grand Slams, the ITF allows 20 seconds between points, while the ATP allows 25 seconds. Federer said on Wednesday that, "I'm not

Andy Murray can breathe a little easier now. The former world No. 1 finally got himself into the win column Tuesday, after beginning his 2024 season by losing four matches. He certainly needed it for more reasons than one, as Murray is defending finalist points from his run last year

Roger Federer has been selected as the European athlete of the year for the fifth time. Federer received 135 points from the eighteen European news agencies participating in the vote, with Formula 1 champ Jensen Button coming in second with 81 points. After winning for four straight years between 2004

He stomped his racquet in frustration as if it was a pesky bug. At one point, he slammed something against his bench, drawing boos from the crowd. After two sets, he had won a paltry 26 percent of second-serve points and was broken seven times. It was a gloomy day

Fabio Fognini is within reach of entering the Top 10 for the first time in his career following his triumph at the Monte Carlo Masters. The 31-year-old Italian is up to a career-high No. 12 with 2, 840 points in the rankings—that's 240 points behind current No. 10 John Isner.

NEW YORK (AP) Serena Williams got into another argument with a U.S. Open official, this time after losing a game because she yelled out during a point during Sunday's final. Down one set and facing a break point in the first game of the second, Williams hit a forehand and

On a day when Rafael Nadal looked largely unlike the confident, commanding clay-courter we've watched for so long, it was fitting that the five-time French Open champ lost one of the best points he played. That was the third point of the third-set tiebreaker, with Nadal already up 2-0 and

Stanislas Wawrinka, who has reached the ATP World Tour Finals for the first time, tells ESPN.com that one of the reasons he has been so successful this year is because he has been playing the big points better. “When I get into those points, I am not so nervous,” he

Your goal in doubles should always be to get both players into the net. The team that has both players at the net wins the point 85 percent of the time. The moment both players are at net, it changes the whole dynamic of the point, giving the net team

We’ve all seen that certain points, at not obviously crucial times, can have an outsized impact on the outcome of a match. We had one such point in today’s final in Madrid, in which a spectacularly determined and focused Rafael Nadal collected his fifth win in seven finals this year—this

Top-ranked Novak Djokovic and No. 2-ranked Carlos Alcaraz each took on respective countrymen on Friday at a pair of events. Only one managed to pass the challenge. A plethora of missed opportunities and an opponent who came out firing resulted in Djokovic suffering his second straight early exit on clay

Two-time defending champion Venus Williams pulls out of Dubai with the same groin injury that she sustained at the Australian Open. No. 6 Williams will lose 900 ranking points from the event and also has 280 points on the line the next week in Acapulco. Missing that event could cost