WATCH: Marie Bouzkova advances after Coco Gauff retires during their 2022 Cincinnati first round match

It can be argued that no piece of equipment embodies modern tennis more than the Babolat Pure Drive. With its stiff, chunky beam tailor-made to produce heavy groundies and massive serves, the racquet has become synonymous with baseline aggression. Its legend started 30 years ago. After producing strings for more

On Monday night in Madrid, Carlos Alcaraz attended the Laureus World Sports Awards to fulfill a special role. The two-time major winner was on hand to present the Laureus World Sports Breakthrough of the Year award 12 months after winning it. The 2024 honor ultimately went to Real Madrid midfielder

Before each day's play at the 2019 US Open, we'll preview three must-see matches. I’ll start by saying that I’ve picked Gauff to lose both her first two matches here, so I’m obviously prone to underestimating what a 15-year-old can do at the pro level. But this will be a

Before each day’s play at the U.S. Open, Steve Tignor will preview and predict three must-see matches. Head to head: Halep leads 3-1 The signs point to a Halep win in this day-opening match on Ashe. She’s ranked No. 3; Safarova is No. 44. Halep has won their last three

LONDON (AP) — First there was one of the longest doubles finals in Wimbledon history. And then there was one of the shortest. The men's final was the first match on Centre Court following the women's singles championship Saturday. Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo beat Oliver Marach and Mate Pavic

Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, and Roger Federer are all vying to end their careers with the most majors ever for a male player, and they’re all going to be in the hunt for another at Roland Garros. Could this year’s French Open reshape men’s tennis history? This week, we give

Former world No. 1 Andy Murray formally announced Monday his intent to return to tennis, set to join forces with Feliciano Lopez on the doubles court at The Queen’s Club in London. “It’s been my most successful tournament overall. I’m not yet ready to return to the singles court, but

The women's Australian Open is over, and with the dust settled, let's appreciate our two final WTA stars, Jennifer Brady and Naomi Osaka, for all they have said along the way. Here's their best quote roundup from the Happy Slam, which wrapped up with Osaka's 6-4, 6-3 win on Saturday.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) Caroline Wozniacki entered the Connecticut Open as a wild card, hoping a tournament she has won four times would help her tune up for the U.S. Open. Instead, the former top-ranked player from Denmark saw her struggles continue in a 7-5, 6-2 first-round loss to Jelena

SINGAPORE (AP) — Svetlana Kuznetsova became the first player to reach the last four of the WTA Finals after sealing her second round-robin victory this week, beating Karolina Pliskova on Wednesday. Kuznetsova fell to the ground, smiling, after securing a 3-6, 6-2, 7-6 (6) win on a fourth match point.

NEW YORK (AP) Sure, Monica Puig would have loved another week between the Olympics and the U.S. Open to ''come down from the high'' of becoming Puerto Rico's first gold medalist. Then again, that's not how the tennis calendar works. Puig realizes that if she wants to climb back to

Teenage sensation Amanda Anisimova overpowered defending French Open champion Simona Halep in the quarterfinals on Thursday, claiming a 6-2, 6-4 victory over the third seed. Anisimova is bidding to become the first American woman other than three-time champion Serena Williams to win the Roland Garros title since Jennifer Capriati in

THE BREAK: Zverev back on practice court

Iga Swiatek made working with a sports psychologist trendy when she won Roland Garros last fall. She even had her mental coach Daria Abramowicz with her in Paris. Sitting in her hotel room in Australia this month, Swiatek discussed how Abramowicz often uses Mikaela Shiffrin as a reference of competitive

WATCH: Previewing a changing of the guard on Tennis Channel Live

At last year’s inaugural ATP Cup, Novak Djokovic clinched a semifinal berth with a thrilling 4-6, 6-1, 7-6 (4) victory over Denis Shapovalov. Thanks to an incredible week of tennis from Dusan Lajovic, who won four of his six singles matches, including a 6-4, 6-2 victory over Felix Auger-Aliassime, Djokovic

Much like the women’s final, the men’s title match will feature two very good players who, after sputtering out of the gates in 2018, few expected to make season-changing turnarounds in Miami. The 32-year-old Isner and the 20-year-old Zverev are players from different generations, but they have a long history

Before each day's play at Flushing Meadows, we'll preview and predict three must-see matches. Here’s one of the more surprising head-to-heads: Williams and Bencic have played three times, and Venus has won all six sets—6-1, 6-2, 6-4, 6-1, 6-3, 6-1. It’s true that Bencic is still a teenager, and that

Rafael Nadal's honeymoon might have been short-lived after his October 19 wedding, but he wasn't having it with a question about a supposed post-wedding slump in terms of on-court results. The question came from reporter Ubaldo Scanagatta, previously infamous in 2019 for falling asleep during one of Nadal's Australian Open