NEW YORK—When Serena Williams plays Maria Sharapova, it’s an occasion, it’s must-see tennis, it’s a spectacle. The only thing it isn’t is much of a match. That went double, or maybe triple, for their 22nd meeting, in the first round at the US Open on Monday night. Arthur Ashe Stadium

Sometime in the middle of February, when the coronavirus was beginning to spread outside China, the talk of canceling sporting events began. Big events. Olympic events. Unthinkable events. My mind started to tick forward, week by week, month by month, through the tennis calendar. Every possibility seemed more unreal than

Rafael Nadal says he will go into the Madrid Masters with a lot more confidence than his first two clay events of the season. Though he fell in the semifinals at both Monte Carlo and Barcelona, Nadal was positive about his improvement since returning from a knee injury at Indian

Severin Luthi, Roger Federer’s co-coach along with Stefan Edberg, says the 17-time Grand Slam champion should have little trouble bouncing back from his loss to Novak Djokovic in the U.S. Open final. “I saw how motivated he was following the defeat in the final of Wimbledon, and began to train

Howdy, everyone. A busy day for me at the Tennis magazine office today, followed by early evening drinks with Andy Roddick. I'll have a full report on that tomorrow.

It's a busy week for the pros, even for the ones not playing Fed Cup or a tournament. 1 Gael Monfils and Elina Svitolina

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Talk about surprises among the Top 10—the only one bigger than Richard Gasquet may be his countryman Tsonga. As 2015 began, it seemed that the oft-injured Frenchman was in permanent decline. His ranking had drifted from No. 6 in 2011 to No. 8 in 2012 to No. 10 in 2013

• DC1118 by Jackie Roe, TW Social Director Evening, TWibe! How is everyone doing? Counting down the hours until the start of the WTFs? For those of you in London, Jewell has arranged a small WTF TW gathering on Sunday evening; please stop by if you can! Here are the

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Novak Djokovic held a practice session on Tuesday, a day after he left immigration detention, focusing on defending his Australian Open title even while he still faces the prospect of deportation because he's not vaccinated against COVID-19. The top-ranked tennis star hit the show courts of

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WATCH: Top seed Novak Djokovic will aim for a much shorter match against Holger Rune on Tuesday evening.

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NEW YORK—Naomi Osaka made her highly anticipated return to the US Open for the first time since 2022 on Tuesday, and there was no way the two-time champion was going to fly under the radar. The former world No. 1 was covered from head to toe in true “maximalist” style

It took a pandemic to stop Novak Djokovic this year. Before COVID-19 paused the sport, the Serbian won all 18 of his matches, led his country to the inaugural ATP Cup and collected a record-extending eighth Australian Open title. Ten of his victories were against Top 20 players, including Rafael

Hi all. Here's your Crisis Center for the evening session at Melbourne Park. Please stick to talking about tennis until the day's matches are over. Afterwards it's OK to go mildly off-topic. -- Rosangel Valenti

UPDATE: Trungelliti won his first-round match. From the Associated Press: The road trip was worth it for Marco Trungelliti, the "lucky loser" who drove for about 9 hours with his brother, mother and grandmother from Barcelona to Paris in order to get into the French Open — and then won

Sam Stosur has extended her contract with coach David Taylor, even though she did not win a title this year and failed to reach a Grand Slam final after winning the 2011 U.S. Open. "I'm absolutely happy with what I've got in place and how it all works," Stosur told

On Stuttgart, it was not just another day in the office for the No. 2 seeded team of Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares. On a day that saw the top singles seed Roger Federer ousted by veteran Tommy Haas, nothing was out of the question, not even a marathon with