WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) Hawaii will host Fed Cup matches for the first time when the United States faces Poland on Feb. 6-7. The U.S. Tennis Association announced Tuesday that the countries will have their 2016 first-round meeting in World Group II at Kailua Kona, Hawaii. The matches will be

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) Former US Open champion Juan Martin Del Potro will have surgery for the third time on his left wrist. Del Potro says Monday on Twitter that he will have surgery in the United States on Thursday on a chronic injury that is threatening his once-promising career.

It wasn’t so long ago that Mary Carillo, while commenting on U.S. television, could make the words “Uncle Toni” sound like something of a joke. What kind of tennis pro brought his uncle along to coach him at a Grand Slam? That would be Rafael Nadal, of course, a teenager

OSTEND, Belgium (AP) Belgium reached the Davis Cup semifinals for the first time since 1999 when Ruben Bemelmans and debutant Kimmer Coppejans won the doubles for an unbeatable 3-0 lead over Canada on Saturday. Bemelmans and his fifth different partner in Davis Cup, Coppejans, beat Daniel Nestor and Canada's own

LONDON (AP) — Karolina Pliskova will rise to No. 1 in the WTA rankings for the first time next week despite a second-round loss at Wimbledon — and no Grand Slam titles. Pliskova, a 25-year-old from the Czech Republic, was assured of moving up two places from No. 3 when

LONDON (AP) — Two-time champion Andy Murray pulled out of Wimbledon on Sunday because of a bad hip that has been a problem for about a year and was surgically repaired less than six months ago. The All England Club announced Murray's withdrawal a day before the grass-court Grand Slam

In their first ever meeting, Serena Williams and fellow American Alison Riske got acquainted over each other’s excellent grass-court games for three captivating sets. In the end, as you might expect, it was the 23-time Grand Slam singles champion, rather than the first-time Grand Slam quarterfinalist, who prevailed—6-4, 4-6, 6-3—to

KITZBUEHEL, Austria (AP) Paolo Lorenzi of Italy became the oldest first-time winner of an ATP event on Saturday after beating Nikoloz Basilashvili of Georgia 6-3, 6-4 in the Generali Open final. At 34 years and seven months, Lorenzi is one month older than Victor Estrella Burgos of the Dominican Republic

NEW YORK(AP) Dinara Safina is the first to admit that what she really needs is some time off. She got it, though hardly at a good time - eliminated in the third round of the U.S. Open after an ugly week's stay at Flushing Meadows. It included: -Three poorly played,

LONDON (AP) Two-time champion Rafael Nadal was seeded No. 10 for Wimbledon on Wednesday, his lowest seeding ever at the All England Club. The seeding means Nadal could face top contenders as early as the fourth round, and one of the top four seeded players in the quarterfinals. The All

I am absolutely fascinated by time travel, so is it a surprise that HG Wells’ classic movie “The Time Machine” is one by my favorites? The truth in tennis and many other sports, however, is that time travel is no fantasy at all. It is a crucial training method known

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Two-time Australian Open champion Victoria Azarenka made it back to the quarterfinals at Melbourne Park for the first time since 2016 by beating Zhu Lin 4-6, 6-1, 6-4 in a match that began late Sunday night and ended at nearly 2:20 a.m. on Monday. "I really

LONDON (AP) Just like old times. Used to be that a match involving Miss Williams vs. Miss Williams, as they like to say at the All England Club, was a regular occurrence at the latter stages of the most prestigious tennis tournaments in the world. During a span of eight

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — U.S. Tennis Association lead national coach Tom Gullikson is retiring from full-time coaching with the group's development program. The USTA announced Tuesday that Gullikson, a former professional player and U.S. Davis Cup captain, will leave the post on June 2. The USTA expects to hire

Lukas Rosol has complained that Rafael Nadal was allowed to take too much time between points during their second-round match at Wimbledon. Players are allowed 20 seconds between points at Grand Slams, though the rule appears less strictly enforced than at ATP matches. Nadal is known as one of the

Serena Williams wrote a stirring tribute to fellow four-time Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles for the 2021 Time 100. The annual list celebrates the most influential people of the year, and the combination of Biles’ athletic excellence and refreshing candor on mental health made her an obvious candidate. “What she

NEW YORK (AP) The U.S. Open closed its new, $150 million retractable roof atop Arthur Ashe Stadium during a match for the first time Wednesday night. The shutting of the cover resulted in a suspension of play of less than 7 1/2 minutes at 3-all in the second set of

Emma Raducanu is projected to drop out of the Top 100 on the WTA rankings for the first time since winning the 2021 US Open as a No. 150-ranked qualifier after pulling out of the Mutua Madrid Open. The current world No. 85 withdrew from the WTA 1000 event a

Jannik Sinner has beaten Novak Djokovic for the third time in a row, this time getting the better of the 24-time Grand Slam champion in the final of the Rolex Shanghai Masters on Sunday, 7-6 (4), 6-3. And with that, Sinner—who had won their last two meetings in the semifinals

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Top-seeded Jack Sock won a match for the first time this year Monday, beating qualifier John-Patrick Smith 6-4, 6-4 on the opening night of the Delray Beach Open. Sock, the highest-ranked American at No. 8, is attempting to become the first player to win consecutive