NEW YORK (AP) Let others wonder whether Denmark's Caroline Wozniacki merits the No. 1 seeding at the U.S. Open, the first time she's been awarded the top spot at a Grand Slam tournament. She harbors no doubts. `Pressure is when you're put on the spot and you don't feel like

LOS ANGELES (AP) Teenager Ryan Harrison continued his recent run of strong play by beating fellow American Michael Russell 6-3, 6-4 on Wednesday to reach the quarterfinals at the Farmers Classic. Yen-Hsun Lu of Taiwan had the day's biggest upset, defeating No. 3 seed Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus 6-3, 6-4

The last major of the year—well, actually, the decade—is in the books. Doubles Take looks back at the action at the US Open. POWER PLAYERS At Wimbledon this year, Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah made history when they became the first Colombians to capture a men’s Grand Slam doubles

Each day during the French Open, we'll preview—and predict the winner of—three of the most compelling women's matches. (4) Petra Kvitova vs. Varvara Lepchenko —Head to Head: Kvitova leads 1-0 One of the feel-good stories of the tournament, Lepchenko calls herself "a fighter in tennis and in life", and displayed

And you said February is a slow tennis month? Here’s a roundup of the best and worst of an eventful 29 days: Head of the Class Roger Federer was great in February, Victoria Azarenka followed her Australian Open title with another win, but John Isner deserves top honors. The hard-serving

Whether it’s interviewing for a job, sitting for a big exam or playing for the tournament trophy, worries about screwing up can prevent us from performing at our best. But what if there was a simple technique you could adopt that would help ensure that you sail, rather than fail,

As the ATP heads into its home stretch at its latest Masters event in Shanghai, a recent Masters champion is far away from China—but not from tournament competition. Ranked 210th in the world after a prolonged slump and injury, Jack Sock’s latest stop on his comeback trail is the Northbay

One negative about Olympic tennis: It can be hard to keep up. You have singles, you have doubles, you have men, you have women, and starting today you had men and women together. Plus, two out of three setters on the men’s side don’t give you a chance to drift

In his post-match presser yesterday, Rafael Nadal was asked if he felt Federer was getting better on clay. He took the question head-on, much like he took Djokovic, gored him, and with one toss of his powerful neck, tossed him out of the tournament. He replied:

After a year or two of debate, the WTA finally crossed the Riyadh Rubicon this week, when it brought its year-end championships to the Saudi city. As usual, Coco Gauff described both sides of the argument well in her pre-tournament press conference. “I would be lying to you if I

When you see a great action movie, you pray for a sequel—even if you know it won’t be as good as the original. Wimbledon has gotten its share of sequels over the years: who can forget the 2011 follow-up to John Isner-Nicolas Mahut, or when Garbiñe Muguruza and Angelique Kerber

INDIAN WELLS, CALIF.—A sure sign that the walls might be a little too thin at your hotel: You can hear someone in the next room snoring. That’s the sound I went to bed to last night; this morning I woke up to a husband and wife, one of whom was

If you’ve ever had doubts about the sagacity of coaching legend and soldier of self-promotion Nick Bollettieri, consider the comments he made concerning two volatile American players, Ryan Harrison and Donald Young, at the very beginnings of their careers. Asked about Young’s future when he was 16 and the No.

Recently I wrote a post about the dozens of immortal names that tennis had given to the world. I came up with a quick list of them off the top of my head; right in the middle of it, like the keystone of the whole operation, was “Jack Kramer.” It’s

SAN DIEGO, Calif.—By her own admission, Melanie Oudin has had a lifetime of learning over the last year. The 19-year-old from Marietta, Georgia has learned that constant travel is hard, that she doesn’t like Europe or Asia, that it’s tough to have a bull’s-eye on your back all the time

The most flattering way to describe Sabine Lisicki’s upset of top-seeded and generally omnipotent Serena Williams is also the most accurate. It was one of those tennis rarities, the “shocking upset” that can’t be taken for “shocking” by anyone with two eyes in his or her head. And it was

What do you get when you give the pros a couple of months off from competition, and let them stay in one place and practice for a few weeks? A crisper, higher quality of tennis. The year’s first major, the Australian Open, has produced more than its share of classic

Six days of watching matches, spying on practice sessions, and slumping in press conferences tends to get a reporter caught up in an occasional story line of dubious significance. I can safely say that one of the major themes of this week will not be written into the tennis-history books.

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Wimbledon returned Monday after being called off in 2020 because of the pandemic, and so much felt rather familiar at the All England Club, from the rain that disrupted the schedule to the victory for Novak Djokovic. Much like the delays to competition around the grounds

*95582970 by Pete Bodo A fella feels a little bit like Don Quixote, but without even the good company of a sidekick like Fernando Gonzalez, writing about Fed Cup. It's an exercise comparable to shouting into the void. Hoping to get noticed and hit upon in a deli by George