NUREMBERG, Germany (AP) — Swedish player Johanna Larsson won her first WTA singles title in three years by beating Alison Riske of the United States 7-6 (4), 6-4 in the final of the Nuremberg Cup on Saturday. Her only other career singles victory was on home soil at Bastad in

Acapulco has quickly become one of the biggest events in the month of February and it’s easy to why. Set in a relaxed resort city with the hotel and courts just minutes from the Pacific Ocean, the players have flocked south. There's also big points at play in the mixed

LONDON—The Sunday before Wimbledon is usually a fine time to walk between the green rectangles at the All England Club and smell the freshly cut grass and newly laid down lime, before both of them get their annual two-week trampling. But as anyone following the game for the last couple

WIMBLEDON, England (AP)—French Open champion Li Na squandered two match points and lost in the second round of Wimbledon on Thursday to German wild card Sabine Lisicki, the biggest upset of the tournament so far. The 62nd-ranked Lisicki erased both match points with service winners in the ninth game of

For the first time since 2004, two U.S. women will contest a WTA final on American soil, when Serena Williams and CoCo Vandeweghe face off at the Bank of the West Classic in Stanford, California. Williams, 30, has never lost to an American player younger than her. Vandeweghe, 20, is

Aryna Sabalenka was in blistering form in her first match as No. 1 on the WTA rankings on Sunday, cooling off a red-hot Sofia Kenin in her opening match at the WTA 1000 event in Beijing, 6-1, 6-2. The 25-year-old is playing her first tournament since rising to the top

World No. 1 Ashleigh Barty was in trouble early on in both sets but bounced back each time, moving past Ekaterina Alexandrova, 6-2, 6-4, and into the fourth round of the Australian Open on Saturday night. Alexandrova had been one of the players to watch coming in, scoring wins over

As recently as a week ago, Novak Djokovic’s burning desire to claim an Olympic gold medal in singles, the only honor of distinction in the sport that has eluded him, seemed to border on the unrealistic. After all, Djokovic is 37. He is still recovering from knee surgery for an

For years now, dark and turbulent skies have swirled over the U.S. Open, and not just because the traditional men’s Sunday final has been rained out for five consecutive years. Players have complained about a range of issues, including prize money, the Super Saturday format, and even the staccato scheduling

Serena Williams became the oldest player, at 31 years and four months, to claim the WTA’s No. 1 ranking today, and she couldn’t have done it in more fitting fashion. As she has so many times in the past, Serena battled her opponent, her own mistakes, her physical troubles—a bad

It’s hard to say what a tennis exhibition means. You’re not getting, say, anything like the final of Wimbledon, if only because the people paying for the matches aren’t interested in who wins. They’re interested in having the players put on a show. A 6-0 set in an exhibition isn’t

by Pete Bodo Caroline Wozniacki is sorely in need of a Stefan Edberg moment. Edberg was a player of an entirely different class than Wozniacki has been, but he also struggled early in his career before finding what his lifelong coach and mentor Tony Pikard described as, "that fire in

The WTA Championships does represent a lost opportunity. Its stands aren’t full and its players aren’t the ones we would ideally like to see. A few of them, namely Jelena Jankovic and Elena Dementieva, don’t even seem to want to be there themselves. But maybe it’s just me, maybe I’m

There was a writer—I won’t name him lest it set off your pretense detector—who said that there are only so many facial types in the world. You run across the same genres everywhere you go. Something similar might be said for tennis players. Everyone swings a little differently, but there

Novak Djokovic moved through to the milestone 75th Masters 1000 semifinal of his career on Friday night with a 6-0, 6-4 victory over American Taylor Fritz in the quarterfinals in Cincinnati. He already holds the record for most Masters 1000 titles (38) and finals (56), and he’s now closing in

Alexander Zverev has ended the breakthrough run of Nicolas Jarry, 6-4, 7-5, to capture the title in Rome for the second time in his career, having first won it as a 20-year-old back in 2017. Jarry was playing the first Masters 1000 final of his career, and was actually the

Consider Amanda Anisimova well and truly back. The resurgent American stunned No.. 2 Aryna Sabalenka in Saturday's quarterfinals at the National Bank Open in Toronto 6-4, 6-2 to reach a WTA 1000-level semifinal for the first time. The 22-year-old, who took a sabbatical from the tour in 2023 to focus

In recent years, Bercy has been the odd Masters out. It comes 11 months into the season, and it follows not just the U.S. Open, but the Asian swing that sends the players to the other side of the world just a few weeks earlier. Worse, it's staged just before

SHANGHAI (AP)—Andy Roddick rallied to beat Lu Yen-Hsun of Taiwan 6-2, 3-6, 6-2 Monday in the first round of the Shanghai Masters. The 10th-seeded Roddick won the first set easily, but Lu picked up his game in the second, rushing the net repeatedly and hitting 15 winners to eight for

To wind up 2014, I’m reposting 14 articles I liked from this past season. I’ll put up one each day until January 5, when the new season begins. Today, a look back at the secret, not so savory, history of the Foro Italico. Time has its way with buildings. It