World No. 1 Rafael Nadal has high praise for 17-year-old Australian Thanasi Kokkinakis, whom he defeated 6-2, 6-4, 6-2 in the Australian Open second round. Kokkinakis reached the Australian Open and the U.S. Open junior finals last year. “There is now new generation that should come," Nadal said. "Kokkinakis is

The No. 1-ranked Serena Williams says that despite playing few tournaments this season, she has a chance to win Rome and the French Open once again. Williams is playing Rome this week after pulling out of Madrid due to an illness. The 34-year-old has only played three tournaments this season:

1 Despite originally planning to skip Madrid, Roger Federer has joined the field of stars for the Masters 1000 tournament next week. It’s a great chance for Federer to pick up some points, given the three-time Madrid champion lost in the opening round to Nick Kyrgios last year. Before this

Coco Gauff lost a tough one against her doubles partner, Jessica Pegula, in the quarterfinals of the National Bank Open, as she fell 6-2, 5-7, 7-5 in a match that lasted two hours and 24 minutes. Gauff had her chances to win that match, so she surely left Canada a

MADRID (AP) — Rafael Nadal is downplaying his chances in his much anticipated Madrid Open quarterfinal against Carlos Alcaraz — the youngster touted in Spain as his successor. The 35-year-old Nadal and the 19-year-old Alcaraz will meet Friday in a clash of generations that Spanish fans had been craving to

The men’s No. 1, 3, 4 and 6 seeds have survived and advanced into the Australian Open’s final Friday. Novak Djokovic (1) is the favorite, but the three others have all beaten him in top-tier matches. Jannik Sinner (4) did it in Davis Cup last year; Daniil Medvedev (3) did

Jasmine Paolini has a chance to do something very special on Saturday, May 17, when she’ll look to win her second 1000-level event in her home country. The Italian has already accomplished a lot in this sport, making two Grand Slam finals last year and earning a spot in the

CINCINNATI, Ohio—The last time we saw Novak Djokovic play a completed match in the United States, he ended it in tears. He had just lost the 2021 US Open final, and his chance at the Grand Slam, to Daniil Medvedev. But that bitter moment had its sweet side: In his

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Defending champion Aryna Sabalenka and U.S. Open winner Coco Gauff swept to commanding wins at the Australian Open on Friday to reach the fourth round. Second-seeded Sabalenka beat Lesia Tsurenko 6-0, 6-0 in 52 minutes while No. 4-seeded Gauff lost just two games in beating fellow

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The Latest on the Australian Open (all times local): 10:55 p.m. Rafael Nadal has beaten Aussie hope Nick Kyrgios in four sets to reach the quarterfinals at a Grand Slam tournament for the 41st time. The 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (6), 7-6 (4) win allowed Nadal to

Ever since the 2024 Australian Open draw was released, everybody has been looking forward to a potential semi-final showdown between Jannik Sinner and Novak Djokovic. These two played three times towards the end of the 2023 season, and the Italian won twice. Not many players have done that to Djokovic,

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Aryna Sabalenka has taken her Australian Open title defense all the way back to the championship match because she has applied a crucial lesson from her US Open final loss to Coco Gauff. She kept reminding herself the next point is often more important than the

In his trophy-ceremony speech at the Western & Southern Open last Sunday, Novak Djokovic said he hoped that he and the man he had just defeated, Carlos Alcaraz, could meet again in three weeks' time in New York, for the US Open title. Then an exhausted Djokovic laughed and said

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Novak Djokovic was so good, so relentless, so pretty much perfect, that Rafael Nadal never stood a chance. Djokovic reduced one of the greats of the game to merely another outclassed opponent — just a guy, really — and one so out of sorts that Nadal

Sebastian Korda backed up his win over two-time Australian Open finalist Daniil Medvedev by taking out his second successive Top 10 player early Sunday evening with a gripping finish—and a little superstition. "The towel got me through it," Korda joked during his on-court interview with Jim Courier. "Every time I

NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. Open tennis tournament (all times local): 11:58 p.m. Danielle Collins saved three set points in the tiebreaker to knock off Alizé Cornet 6-4, 7-6 (11-9) in a match between two players who had eliminated former U.S. Open champions. Collins defeated two-time

TIANJIN, China (AP) U.S. Open champion Flavia Pennetta lost in the first round of the Tianjin Open on Tuesday, hurting her chances of qualifying for the WTA Finals in Singapore. The top-seeded Italian lost to No. 414-ranked qualifier Lyudmyla Kichenok of Ukraine 6-3, 7-5. Pennetta is currently in the eighth

Following his win over Daniil Medvedev in the semifinals of the US Open, Dominic Thiem confessed that he didn’t like tiebreakers. But this evening, the 27-year-old Austrian navigated them well enough to earn the most intriguing of outcomes, a straight-sets nail-biter. Fighting off set points in each of the last

GRAPEVINE, Texas (AP) -- Third-seeded Roberta Vinci advanced to the Texas Open final Thursday, routing Bojana Jovanovski 6-0, 6-0. ''I played well. She played so-so,'' Vinci said. ''But 6-0, 6-0 is not easy. You have to stay focused every point, every game.'' Vinci, from Italy, will face second-seeded Jelena Jankovic

A smile creased Daniil Medvedev's face as he walked to the net in Rod Laver Arena at 3:39 a.m., finally a winner in the Australian Open's second round after five sets spread across nearly 4 1/2 hours in the third-latest finish in Grand Slam history. Zero chance Medvedev would have