Andy Murray is leaving Indian Wells with some question marks about his confidence after faltering in the third set of his fourth-round loss to Milos Raonic. Murray broke early in the third set, but then lost the next four games in a 6-4, 5-7, 6-3 defeat. "I mean, to get

Caroline Wozniacki will attend the Masters golf tournament next week to watch her boyfriend Rory McIlroy. But although she'll be walking the course, the Dane says she wants to be recognized as the tennis player that she is. “I hope people see me as more than just Rory’s girlfriend,” she

Eugenie Bouchard is not looking to take the long way to the top, trying to defy the recent tendency for players to do well at an older age. Some players in their teens and early twenties are now prepared to wait a few years for their best results. "Yeah, I

Eugenie Bouchard says her new coach Sam Sumyk is "exactly what I was looking for" as she prepared to play their first tournament together in Antwerp. Bouchard, who stopped working with Nick Saviano during the off-season, began working with Sumyk following the Australian Open. Her trainer knew that Sumyk was

Serena Williams' father says he won't return to Indian Wells, Calif., the site of a tournament his daughter has skipped since 2001, when their family was booed — and subjected to racial epithets, according to his new book. "I would never go back," Richard Williams said in a telephone interview.

This Wimbledon victory is the ''most special'' of his Grand Slams, says Novak Djokovic. The top-seeded Serbian had match point in the fourth set against Roger Federer before eventually capturing the title in five sets. ''But, you know, I could have easily lost my concentration in the fifth and just

Li Na says that she was thrilled when she found out that she was on the cover of the TIME 100 list. Li was one of seven covers for the TIME magazine issue that highlights the one hundred most influential people in the world. "I was so excited,” Li told

After defeating world No. 9 Richard Gasquet and world No. 10 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga to win Marseille, Ernests Gulbis is on the verge of cracking the Top 20 for the first time, but says that is not good enough. "My long-term goal in tennis isn't to be Top 20. It's to

Sloane's not stressing. The 26-year-old has had an inconsistent start to the season, but says she's turning it around. Stephens had not won back-to-back matches since the Australian Open until she reached the Charleston quarterfinals, falling to eventual champion Madison Keys. "I think when I played in Charleston, things started

Robin Soderling, who has been sidelined for nearly two years due to mononucleosis, tells USA Today that he is not ready to come back to the tour, but he will eventually return. “I don’t want to go back to the tour and not feel 100 percent fit,” said the 28-year-old,

Wimbledon champion Marion Bartoli says that while she could not have won her first Grand Slam without the help of her father and coach Walter, learning self-reliance was vital to her major breakthrough. “I needed to take more responsibility in practice and when playing matches,” she said at the Rogers

Grigor Dimitrov says having fun away from the court has helped him find his game. The Bulgarian, who won the Brisbane International in the first week of the season, cited an unlikely source for his high level of play to start the year. "I'm the kind of guy that I

LONDON (AP)—The first question at the first formal news conference of the first full day of Andy Murray's new life as Wimbledon champion concerned the buzz building in Britain about whether knighthood awaits. Murray sighed and rested his chin on his left hand. "I don't really know,'' he said Monday.

Serena Williams says she is not putting herself under any additional pressure at the U.S. Open after three early-round losses at this year’s Grand Slam tournaments. Asked about winning a major this season, Williams said, "I'm not even thinking of it anymore. I haven't even been able to get to

HIGHLIGHTS: Andy Murray defeats James Duckworth

Australian Open tournament director Craig Tiley and Shanghai tournament director Charles Smith come out in favor of faster surfaces. Tiley told The New York Times that in general courts have become too slow. “I think it has gone too much one way and the tournaments need to correct it,” he

Novak Djokovic’s 2022 obviously didn’t get off to an ideal start. He couldn’t play the Australian Open, or even stay in the country. He couldn’t play in Indian Wells or Miami. When he finally did get out on court, in Monte Carlo and Belgrade, he wasn’t ready. The 34-year-old, who

Andy Roddick, the last American man to win the U.S. Open when he took the title in 2003, says he will not attend the tournament this year. Roddick retired at the U.S. Open last season. “I don't know that I’ll ever be the guy who needs to go to a

LONDON—Novak Djokovic found some members of the partisan British crowd "unfair" during his match against Kyle Edmund, with an officiating error also going against the Serb during this third-round win. "It was a Davis Cup-like atmosphere. I expected them to support Kyle, obviously. But at times they were slightly unfair

The Rally returns today, with a discussion between freelance tennis writer Kamakshi Tandon and I on the 2016 season that just was. Below is the first of three parts. Hi Kamakshi, We’ve done it. We’ve made it all the way to another offseason. Or off-month, anyway. That’s still a ridiculously