When healthy, Bianca Andreescu has been a force to be reckoned with, evidenced by her meteoric rise into the Top 5 this season. But her debut Shiseido WTA Finals Shenzhen appearance will go down as an event to forget. The Canadian retired Wednesday with a left knee injury after losing

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese fans celebrated Naomi Osaka's Australian Open title on Saturday, saying her win will serve as an inspiration to future generations. Osaka beat Petra Kvitova 7-6 (2), 5-7, 6-4 to claim a second consecutive Grand Slam title. The 21-year-old Osaka also becomes the first tennis player from

At Roland Garros, Simona Halep was on a 17-match winning streak, she was the tournament favorite and the No. 1 seed. Iga Swiatek didn't seem to care about any of those stats as she only needed 70 minutes to dispatch the Romanian, 6-1, 6-2 on Sunday. It was night and

Professional tennis with fans will be given another shot at two events next month, with organizers saying they will be more careful about adhering to protocols than the troubled Adria Tour. The DraftKings All-American Team Cup will be played in Atlanta next week with plans for 450 spectators, while two

Before each day of play at Roland Garros, we'll preview and predict three must-see matches. “How’s Rafa look?” is the question of the week in the tennis world, and we’ll get our second answer on Thursday. We should also get a better answer. Rather than facing a teenage qualifier, as

Rafael Nadal and Fabio Fognini squared off for the third time in the 2015 Hamburg final. From 2005 to 2014, Rafael Nadal managed to win at least one of the first three Grand Slams of the year. That streak came to an end in a season where the Spaniard looked

MEMPHIS (AP)—Milos Raonic beat No. 2 seed Fernando Verdasco 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (5) on Wednesday night in the first round of the Regions Morgan Keegan Championships, his second victory over Verdasco in four days. Raonic, a 20-year-old Canadian and the fastest rising young star on the ATP Tour, beat Verdasco

Angelique Kerber and Karolina Pliskova went the distance in the 2016 US Open final. With the first Grand Slam title of her career at the 2016 Australian Open, along with runner-up finishes at Wimbledon and the Summer Olympics, Angelique Kerber was clearly the front-runner for player of the year by

Ana Ivanovic Mornin'. A quick housekeeping note: Those of you who want to kick back with a few drinks tonight are welcome to join us (meaning, whomever. . .) tonight at the Dublin House, an old-fashioned, old-school Irish bar on 79th St., just off Broadway, starting at 9 pm. Many

NEW YORK, NY -- The world’s top tennis players and chefs will serve-up a kickoff to the US Open at the 13th Annual BNP PARIBAS TASTE OF TENNIS, to benefit New York Junior Tennis & Learning. One of summer’s most anticipated New York nightlife events, BNP PARIBAS TASTE OF TENNIS

Nobody wants to lose their first Grand Slam match in straight sets, but it must be some consolation if that defeat comes at the hands of Roger Federer, even if he didn’t have to break much of a sweat. Pablo Carreno-Busta’s introduction to the big stage was short and not

In a moment delicately freighted with irony, the presenter of Sky Sports’ tennis coverage wondered anxiously aloud before the start of the Shanghai final this morning whether the pundits were overhyping Murray’s Asian achievements given the quality of his opposition—as if exaggeration and sensationalism are unheard of when it comes

SHANGHAI -- Defending champion Novak Djokovic advanced to the final of the Shanghai Masters on Saturday with a 6-2, 7-5 win over Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, putting him in position to win back-to-back titles in China for the second straight year. The top-seeded Serb extended his winning streak in China to 19

Portuguese wild card Rui Machado stretched, but couldn't extended Gimeno-Traver past two sets.

Maria Sharapova is bringing top-level tennis back to the Los Angeles area. The five-time Grand Slam title winner will host a sports-and-entertainment event in December at the UCLA Tennis Center, with participants such as 2003 U.S. Open champion Andy Roddick, 2014 U.S. Open runner-up Kei Nishikori of Japan, Americans Jack

Doubles Take is here with a look at the latest results on the clay leading up to the French Open.

The final chapter of the longtime rivalry between Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal was a 6-2, 7-6(5) win for Djokovic on Saturday in the third-place match of the Six Kings Slam in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Though not officially counted as the 61st all-time meeting between the two, the third-place affair

DUBAI—Are we getting closer to an Aryna Sabalenka signature line? The logo is already in place. The world No. 1 opened up about the latest tiger to join her ambush of jungle cats ahead of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships, helping to design the logo that popped up on

This week, we're highlighting our top five ATP players of the year. Last week, we revealed our Top 5 WTA list. Click here to read each selection.

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — The Latest on Wimbledon (all times local): 10 p.m. British duo Joe Salisbury and Harriet Dart reached the mixed doubles final at Wimbledon, denying Kveta Peschke a chance to become the oldest ever champion at the All England Club. Salisbury and Dart beat the Czech veteran