AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — Venus Williams has withdrawn from the ASB Tennis Classic, her first tournament of 2017, due to an arm injury. Williams beat New Zealand wildcard Jade Lewis in a first-round match and was due to play Japan's Naomi Osaka in the second round later Wednesday but

NEW YORK (AP) — Hyeon Chung has pulled out of this month's New York Open because of the blister injury that forced him to retire from his semifinal loss to Roger Federer in the Australian Open. The 21-year-old Chung became the first Korean to reach the semifinals of a major,

SAO PAULO (AP) -- Top-seeded Feliciano Lopez has pulled out of this week's Brazil Open because of a right thigh injury. Tournament officials said Monday the 14th-ranked Spaniard was hurt in the final of the tournament in Ecuador on Sunday. He lost the final 6-2, 6-7 (5), 7-6 (5) to

Top-seeded Naomi Osaka is through to the second round of the Mutua Madrid Open after taking out Dominika Cibulkova, 6-2, 7-6 (6), on Sunday. It was her first main-draw win at the Premier Mandatory event. Last month, Osaka withdrew from the semifinals of Stuttgart with an abdominal injury and told

NEW YORK (AP) — His voice choking, Andy Murray unexpectedly announced Saturday that he was withdrawing from the U.S. Open because of a hip injury, adding to the lengthy list of top players who will miss the year's last Grand Slam tournament. Murray was seeded No. 2 at Flushing Meadows,

NOTTINGHAM, England (AP) Caroline Wozniacki lost in her second match since coming back from injury, falling to Anett Kontaveit of Estonia 6-7 (5), 6-3, 7-5 Wednesday at the Nottingham Open. The former top-ranked player from Denmark, seeded third, was playing at a tournament for the first time since rolling her

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — Simona Halep withdrew from the St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy on Friday because of a knee injury, the same issue that she blamed for her opening-round loss at the Australian Open. The fourth-ranked Romanian had said she was pain-free after her win over Ana Konjuh this

LONDON (AP) Rafael Nadal pulled out of the Queen's Club grass-court tournament that serves as a tuneup for Wimbledon, citing the left wrist injury that cut his French Open short. Nadal, a 14-time Grand Slam champion, withdrew from Queen's Club on Wednesday. He won that event in 2008, when he

WATCH: Saville was only a game into her Tokyo encounter with Osaka when the injury occurred.

INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP) — Serena Williams withdrew from the BNP Paribas Open that begins Wednesday because of a left knee injury, leaving the desert tournament without the world's top-ranked women's player. The withdrawal also cost Williams a chance to retain her top ranking. Angelique Kerber, a two-time semifinalist and

Naomi Osaka says the shoulder injury that led to her withdrawal from the WTA Finals should only require rest to heal. Osaka told press at the event, in Shenzhen, that she began experiencing the problem at Beijing, and had avoided practicing her serving. (A clip of Osaka's practice in Shenzhen

BEIJING (AP) — Top-ranked Simona Halep retired Sunday from her first-round match at the China Open. Halep lost the first set, 6-1, to Tunisia's Ons Jabeur before retiring with a back injury that she also had problems with at last week's Wuhan Open. It's the fourth straight loss for the

Speaking about Serena Williams' foot injury, Kim Clijsters confirmed that it was indeed serious. "I obviously saw her injury, but I didn't get the explanation," said Clijsters. "I saw the injury, so it's not something that she's making up or that it's a small cut or anything." Asked whether injury

SYDNEY (AP) -- Juan Martin Del Potro launched his comeback from a serious wrist injury with a convincing 6-3, 7-6 (4) win over Sergiy Stakhovsky in the first round of the Sydney International on Tuesday. The former U.S. Open champion is ranked No. 338 after undergoing surgery on his left

PARIS (AP) — Top-ranked Rafael Nadal is slated to make his comeback from a knee injury at the Paris Masters next week. Organizers said the 17-time Grand Slam Champion arrived in Paris on Friday. The Spaniard has a bye to the second round in Paris, where he will face either

MADRID (AP) — Rafael Nadal will play the Madrid Open after recovering from a rib injury that sidelined him for a month, the Spaniard said Tuesday. Nadal had been recovering from a stress fracture he sustained while playing at Indian Wells in March. His loss to American Taylor Fritz in

TORONTO (AP) — Naomi Osaka's recent struggles continued Tuesday with an early exit at the National Bank Open. The four-time Grand Slam champion retired from her first-round match with a back injury. She was trailing 7-6 (4), 3-0 against Estonia's Kaia Kanepi when she withdrew from the contest. "I felt

Maria Sharapova has withdrawn from Doha with an ongoing left arm injury. "Unfortunately, I will not be able to play the Qatar Total Open because of my left forearm injury,” she said in a statement. Sharapova first sustained the injury in Wuhan, where she was returning from a wrist injury,

BASEL, Switzerland (AP) — Top-ranked Rafael Nadal has withdrawn from the Swiss Indoors next week, denying fans a possible final against Roger Federer. Nadal says he's taking medical advice to protect "over stressing of the (right) knee." He says the injury affected him last week in Shanghai, where he lost

Victoria Azarenka is in doubt for Miami after experiencing more foot problems while losing her opening match to American Lauren Davis, 6-0, 7-6 (2) at Indian Wells. Asked about playing Miami, which begins in 10 days, Azarenka replied, "I don't know. "It's tough to say, because, you know, this problem