NEW YORK (AP) -- Aside from one long, long game, Novak Djokovic kept things quick on a 90-degree afternoon at the U.S. Open on Friday. The defending champion at Flushing Meadows dropped a 24-point, 15-minute game early in the second set, a tiny blip along the way to wrapping up

ANTWERP, Belgium (AP) Third-seeded Andrea Petkovic of Germany advanced to the Diamond Games semifinals Friday after beating sixth-seeded Slovakian Dominika Cibulkova 7-6 (2), 6-0 in a scrappy match featuring 11 breaks of serve. Both players dropped serve four times each in a wobbly first set, but Petkovic tightened up her

The junior wanted to apologize after losing to an adult member of his club. “I’m sorry I played so badly,” said the junior. “I just wasn’t able to play my game today.” “Don’t you see? I helped take you there.” The junior had no idea what the adult was talking

Fans will soon be playing one of the most realistic-looking tennis video games out there, AO Tennis. Thanasi Kokkinakis got to be part of the process, lending his face and body movements to the game. "It does look like me," he said. "That is nuts!" The game will feature the

CANCUN, Mexico (AP) — Jessica Pegula improved to 48-0 in 2023 when winning the first set, grabbing 10 of the last 12 games to beat Elena Rybakina 7-5, 6-2 in the opening match of round-robin singles competition at the WTA Finals on a windy Sunday night. Neither woman had won

I’m calling it now: our truly, madly, deeply exhausting search for a Big Three successor is over. With his maiden Grand Slam victory at the US Open—and subsequent soccer video game-inspired celebration—Daniil Medvedev ascended above the cadre of Next Gen pretenders, and combined the best of his lofty predecessors, to

Three-time U.S. Open champion Kim Clijsters, who will contest her final tournament at Flushing Meadows, tells USOpen.org that the game is passing her 29-year-old body by. Clijsters has played sporadically this season due to injury. “(I am) too old to play the game that I want to play physically," she

Over the past few decades, no area of equipment has arguably had a bigger impact on pro tennis than polyester strings. Their unique properties allow users to swing with abandon to hit with shots with huge power and spin that remain under control. The downside is the stiff and unyielding

Buying a new racquet is a significant investment of time and treasure. With no shortage of worthy options available, it can be difficult to know where to begin. That’s why it pays to narrow the list to models suitable to your station in the game. Whether beginner, advanced or somewhere

ZipRecruiter Player Resume: Elena Rybakina

Strength and conditioning coach Francis Bougy has worked with plenty of athletes—both as part of former world No. 1 Victoria Azarenka’s full-time team and at the Patrick Mouratoglou Academy with the likes of Alizé Cornet, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Holger Rune, and Stefanos Tsitsipas—but his coaching philosophy translates from the elite to

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) Controversial tennis player Nick Kyrgios will be free to participate in an NBA celebrity game in February after being released from his contract with an ATP event in the Netherlands. Richard Krajicek, the 1996 Wimbledon champion and tournament director of the ANB Amro event in Rotterdam, posted

Karolina Pliskova may be one of the best tennis players in the world but her rock-paper-scissors game needs work. The Czech was challenged to a game with consequences during all-access media hour in Dubai and luck was not on her side.

An inscription in the temple of Apollo at Delphi in Greece says “Know thyself.” Although those words were written with spiritual matters in mind, they’re equally applicable to less lofty endeavors, including the improvement of your tennis game. While you probably feel that you already have a good handle on

Canadian Milos Raonic, who hit 32 aces to defeat John Millman and reach the third round of Wimbledon, says the game’s bigger players are starting to evolve—and serves are going to continue getting harder and harder. Going into the tournament, Raonic has 6,275 aces for the season. The Canadian has

Current Ranking: 10 W/L: 43-22 Titles: 1 (Munich) Grand Slam Record: 11-4 ATP Finals Appearances: Debut Best Result: N/A After winning three tournaments in 2022, including the Paris Masters to finish the season, expectations were high for Holger Rune in 2023. Perhaps unfairly so, for a player starting the year

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NEW YORK (AP) — Tennis star Genie Bouchard kept her side of a bet for a date after the Atlanta Falcons lost the lead at the Super Bowl. The Canadian player and now swimsuit model sat courtside at a Brooklyn Nets game Wednesday night with a University of Missouri student

MELBOURNE—World No. 2 Andy Murray and world No. 3 Roger Federer say they’ve tried a few things during the off-season that could help them against No. 1 Novak Djokovic, but both men know that they can’t focus on just one player. “This off-season maybe a little bit more,” said Murray