A "devestated" Alex de Minaur pulled out of his anticipated quarterfinal match at Wimbledon against Novak Djokovic at Wimbledon on Wednesday due to a hip injury. The news won't come as a surprise to those who watched the end of the Aussie's 6-2, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 win over Arthur Fils

MARSEILLE, France (AP) -- Local favorite Gael Monfils maintained his perfect record against fourth-seeded Roberto Bautista Agut to reach the final of the Open 13 where he will meet fellow Frenchman Gilles Simon. The seventh-seeded Monfils, who also beat the Spaniard in the second round last week in Rotterdam, put

By Heidi Kim, TW Contributing Writer

Due to enormously—nay, absurdly—high interest, I am following up my comment on noodling for catfish (see my earlier post, "Party Like it’s 1999") with this link that will put to rest any feminist notions that noodlin’ is a pastime enjoyed only by good ole’ boys given to wearing “Too Drunk

I finally got to see Hingis hit the ball, live, in her match with Samantha Stosur last night. Stosur is a talented Aussie with an explosive all-court game and solid volley; she’s a little bit Lisa Raymond, a little bit Justine Henin-Hardenne and – it seemed to me – a

TOKYO -- Eighth-seeded Kei Nishikori of Japan beat Milos Raonic of Canada 7-6 (5), 3-6, 6-0 on Sunday to win the Japan Open. The 22-year-old Nishikori won his second career ATP tour title and first in more than four years. Nishikori, ranked No. 17, thrilled the home crowd by defeating

Who would have guessed just a few months ago that the biggest question on the women’s side would be whether Maria Sharapova could complete a career Grand Slam at this year's French Open? But Sharapova won the biggest clay-court title of her career at Rome a few weeks ago, then

LEIPZIG, Germany (AP) Belinda Bencic and Australian Open doubles champion Martina Hingis sent Switzerland to the Fed Cup semifinals with a 3-2 win over Germany on Sunday. The 18-year-old Bencic and Hingis, who won with Sania Mirza in Melbourne, converted four of their five break points to defeat Andrea Petkovic

Roger Federer's coach, Severin Luthi, says the 17-time Grand Slam champion has not been on a practice court since Wimbledon, but is working to rehabilitate his injuries. The world No. 3 announced this week that he would not play again this season, but plans to make a full comeback. Federer

TORONTO (AP) Novak Djokovic paused after accepting the Rogers Cup trophy for the fourth time, scanned the stands Sunday at York University's Aviva Centre and asked everyone in the crowd to hug the person beside them. A small chuckle circulated the capacity crowd and then Djokovic said he would lead

It’s been more than 35 years since Ronald Reagan stated, during his first inaugural address, “Those who say that we’re in a time when there are no heroes, they just don’t know where to look.” We discovered heroes in every state, starting with the determined 69-year-old who won a match

PARIS—John Isner, who has reached the third round at the French Open after topping Paolo Lorenzi, says that in the past few weeks he has stopped putting pressure on himself and started to play better. In the first four months of the season, the world No. 22 didn’t go deep

PARIS (AP) — According to his longtime coach, Rafael Nadal did not play very well in his French Open semifinal. Yet the nine-time Roland Garros champion dispatched up-and-coming Dominic Thiem 6-3, 6-4, 6-0 on Friday to reach his 10th final at the clay-court Grand Slam, extending his record for the

Dominic Thiem, who is playing in Washington, D.C., this week, says that he and his friend, Alexander Zverev, are still far away from the level of the Big Four, but they are starting to be more competitive against them. The 23-year-old Thiem has won eight titles, but he has not

Alexander Zverev is describing himself as "very confident" going into the U.S. Open, having won ATP events in Washington and Montreal leading up to the hard-court major. The 20-year-old German dropped his opening match in Cincinnati, but attributed the defeat partly to tiredness from his two successful weeks. "I mean,

Roger Federer is returning to the court for the first time since his quarterfinal defeat at the US Open, taking part in the inaugural Laver Cup competition. Federer is also helping with the organization of the event. Federer arrived in Prague for what he described as a "tennis party" with

NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) — Steve Johnson continued his long road back and success this year by capturing the Hall of Fame Open on Sunday. The 28-year-old American defeated Ramkumar Ramanathan, of India, 7-5, 3-6, 6-2, on Newport's grass court for his fourth career ATP title and second this season. When

On Tuesday, Andy Murray announced that the Paris Olympics would be the final tennis tournament of his career. To celebrate his legacy, we’re counting down five of his most amazing career stats, one a day, until the tournament begins on Saturday. So far, we’ve covered how he became the first

As the September/October issue of Tennis Industry magazine was ready to go to press, we learned the sad news that tennis industry legend Dennis Van der Meer passed away on July 27, after a lengthy illness. No one has had a bigger impact on recreational tennis and tennis coaches than

No. 3 seed Alexander Zverev denied France's Ugo Humbert a storybook ending to his week at the Rolex Paris Masters on Sunday with a 6-2, 6-2 championship victory at the Accor Arena. To claim his seventh career ATP Masters 1000 title, and first in Paris, Zverev was dominant in all