Roger Federer isn’t just one of the most accomplished players in tennis history, he’s also one of the most charitable—and on Monday he’ll be in the Bay Area for Match For Africa 5: Silicon Valley, which will be shown live on Tennis Channel at 10:30 pm EST. The exhibition event—which

Over the last few years several all-time greats have called time on their professional tennis careers, and we’ve given them a statistical send-off, counting down some of their most incredible records that may never be broken. We did it for Serena Williams, Roger Federer and most recently Andy Murray. And

The third match on the third day of PPA The Masters saw Eugenie Bouchard pulling off her second consecutive three-game comeback of the women’s singles bracket. After losing the first game in 11 minutes to No. 2 seed and former collegiate tennis player Brooke Buckner, Bouchard was able to level

PARIS (AP)—French Open champion Li Na retired with a sore back against Tsvetana Pironkova in the second set of her opening match Tuesday at the Open GDF Suez. Third-seeded Li took a medical timeout while trailing 7-6 (5), 3-2 to have her lower back massaged and played a few more

TOKYO(AP) Maria Sharapova recovered from a slow start Wednesday to advance to the quarterfinals of the Toray Pan Pacific Open with a 2-6, 6-2, 6-2 win over compatriot Alisa Kleybanova. The former top-ranked Russian, who has been struggling since returning from a 10-month injury layoff, will face Iveta Benesova of

LONDON(AP) Defending champion Russia, Italy and the Czech Republic advanced to the semifinals of the Fed Cup on Sunday, all completing their wins in reverse singles. Russia, which has won four of the last five Fed Cup titles, routed China 5-0 with Anna Chakvetadze and Alisa Kleybanova both winning before

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates(AP) Seventh-seeded Svetlana Kuznetsova was upset by fellow Russian Elena Vesnina in three sets Monday at the Dubai Tennis Championship, which has come under scrutiny for refusing to grant a visa to Israeli player Shahar Peer. While the tournament continues, WTA chief Larry Scott said the lucrative

MILAN (AP) The Williams sisters want to defend their Olympic doubles title in London next summer. Serena Williams said Friday that she and sister Venus are eager to go for their third Olympic gold together after victories at the 2000 Sydney and 2008 Beijing Games. First up, the sisters will

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By now, fans know what to expect from Nick Kyrgios: the unexpected. On Tuesday, the Aussie showed his home crowd how to hit a tweener serve, struck a tweener mid-rally and ended it all with a beer on the court. His straight-set win over Liam Broady was a cause for

MADRID (AP) — Two-time Madrid Open champion Simona Halep and second-ranked Paula Badosa will meet in the tournament's second round after opening with victories on Thursday. Halep beat Zhang Shuai 6-2, 6-3 and Badosa defeated Veronika Kudermetova 6-3, 6-0. It will be the first time Halep and Badosa meet. "I

Rafael Nadal’s continued quest for the calendar-year Grand Slam is on. Meeting with press in Mallorca Friday, Nadal reiterated the word “positive” when describing his week of training and status of his left foot. And with it, the 22-time major champion expects to head to the United Kingdom after the

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It was already a breakthrough week in Hamburg for Lorenzo Musetti, as he made it through to the first ATP final of his career, but things got even sweeter for the 20-year-old Italian on Sunday afternoon as he won a two-hour, 46-minute thriller against Carlos Alcaraz, 6-4, 6-7 (6), 6-4,

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Top-ranked Novak Djokovic and No. 2-ranked Carlos Alcaraz each took on respective countrymen on Friday at a pair of events. Only one managed to pass the challenge. A plethora of missed opportunities and an opponent who came out firing resulted in Djokovic suffering his second straight early exit on clay

Frenchman Gaël Monfils is the eighth and final player to announce his participation for the latest UTS tournament, to be played 21 to 23 July in Los Angeles, which stages this revolutionary tennis competition for the first time. Monfils rounds out a cast of the most spectacular players in men's

Novak Djokovic defeated Croatian qualifier Borna Gojo in the fourth round of the US Open on Sunday night, 6-2, 7-5, 6-4, for his 85th career win at the last Grand Slam tournament of the year. Having already been the only player with 80 or more wins at all four majors,

Every tennis player is looking to reach their maximum potential. All the talent they possess, skills they’ve honed, and hard yards they put into being their absolute best lie in wait as they take the tennis court for a match. But all too often that same talent fails to emerge