It’s possible, if Serena Williams goes on to reassert her dominance over the rest of the summer, and caps it with a title in New York, that we’ll look back on her 7-5, 6-0 win over Andrea Petkovic on Saturday as the day she turned her season around. In her

Before each day of play at Roland Garros, we'll preview and predict three must-see matches. These two have played once, but it’s hardly a result that’s going to mean much on Wednesday. Eight years ago, in a Challenger in Bogota, a 19-year-old Bellucci beat a 17-year-old Nishikori in three sets.

TORONTO (AP)—Marion Bartoli was the major casualty in Monday’s first-round action at the WTA’s Rogers Cup, losing in straight sets to qualifier Galina Voskoboeva. The ninth-seeded Frenchwoman struggled with her serve throughout the match, giving away four double-fault points, while her Kazakh opponent capitalized on her opportunities by winning four

Kevin Anderson can enjoy his off-season more than ever after capping off a breakthrough season after 11 years on tour. While 2017 was big for the 32-year-old as he reached his first Slam final, these past 12 months have been even memorable. The South African began 2018 with a final

As the world turns its eye to Paris for the French Open, Baseline and Tennis.com partnered with Sinclair stations to get us in the mood for Roland Garros. Both sites will showcase a French food recipe from eight of the top French restaurants from around the country.

Despite reaching the final round last month at Berlin's WTA 500 event and earlier this year doing the same in Adelaide, it's been somewhat of a lackluster season for Belinda Bencic. However, underneath the sizzling sun in Tokyo the Swiss player is peaking and revealing a higher level of play

PARIS -- Two-time major champion Lleyton Hewitt isn't sure whether he'll return to the French Open. If he doesn't, his last match at Roland Garros will be a tough one to get over. In a back-and-forth first-round match against 15th-seeded Gilles Simon of France, Hewitt wasted a two-set lead, then

GENEVA -- Australian Open champion Stanislas Wawrinka acknowledges that Switzerland has its best chance in years to win a first Davis Cup title. "We all know that we have a good opportunity, especially since Roger is playing and I am playing," Wawrinka said on Tuesday, ahead of a home quarterfinal

Here, Daily Spin readers, is the latest installment in our periodic Friday Fourhand series, another quartet of the latest, sometimes-greatest tennis headlines. 1] DON'T PITY THE (RED)FOO Oddly, or perhaps not, the LMFAO frontman and songwriter is [reportedly coaching a junior player in Ayaka Okuno. His young charge hails from

It was just one of those matches. One of those thrilling matches in which both players put everything on the line, clawed for each and every point, because they knew that each one could make the difference in the end. Just one of those matches. In what was easily the

PARIS—Rafael Nadal has won the French Open nine times, and during the next two weeks he could reach 100 match wins at Roland Garros. The 30-year-old Spaniard has played some tremendous matches over the years at the French Open, but he puts a win against Novak Djokovic at the top

Can Daniil Medvedev end a title drought going on 17 months? If the 2021 US Open champion wants a shot at doing just that, he’ll first need to figure out how to get past Carlos Alcaraz. “I think for me, and I think I'm not the only one to say

ISTANBUL—Rivalries are created when two players close in ability meet on a consistent basis in big matches with the outcome largely uncertain before the start, which we haven’t been able to say about Victoria Azarenka and Maria Sharapova for some time. Dating back to 2010, Azarenka has won six of

Christmas for adults is largely a remembered holiday. Every year at this time we’re reminded of the magical sound that the word had for us as kids, the feverish sense of anticipation we felt as it approach, our uncontrollable 5:00 A.M dash downstairs to the tree, against our parents’ pointless

WATCH–A look at the ATP rankings this week:

When it comes to individual sports, there’s nothing like team play to bring out the best in America’s opponents. This weekend we got a good look at the phenomenon in both tennis and golf. First, there was the Ryder Cup (it was easier to see, certainly, than the Davis Cup,

NEW YORK—“Downs and downs and downs and downs.” That’s what a disappointed Serena Williams, speaking to her team in Arthur Ashe Stadium on Saturday night, said her career mostly consisted of these days. She was exaggerating, of course, but her frustration at losing her fourth straight Grand Slam final was

WATCH: Auger-Aliassime extended his winning streak to six in a row after winning his first title in Rotterdam last week.

Top men's seed Rafael Nadal saw his Australian Open title defense come crashing down Wednesday, with a mid-match injury hampering the 22-time major champion in an eventual 6-4, 6-4, 7-5 second-round defeat to Mackenzie McDonald. After the 27-year-old American regained his break advantage for 4-3 in set two, Nadal pulled

It was another action-packed day at Roland Garros, with some players battling through their fourth-rounder, and others cruising into the quarterfinals. Without further adieu, the three takeaways from Day 9: 1. Nishikori overcomes Paire in topsy-turvy clash Kei Nishikori improved his five-set record to 23-6 after holding off home favorite