All year long the WTA asked its players to take the Frame Challenge, a simple-looking yet very challenge task of bouncing a ball on a racquet frame. The results varied wildly, but after a year, the Top 10 were announced with Alize Cornet trouncing the field with a whopping 236.

Ana Ivanovic is officially a mother. The 30-year-old welcomed a baby boy with husband Bastian Schweinsteiger. The former world No. 1 confirmed the news on Sunday.

At the Premier WTA event in Tokyo, Victoria Azarenka scored a notable win to advance to the quarterfinals. The Belarusian ousted Ashleigh Barty in straight sets, 6-4, 6-2. Barty had just beating her US Open doubles champion partner CoCo Vandeweghe in the previous round. It's the 29-year-old Azarenka's first event

One of the many free-entry Smithsonian Museums in Washington, D.C., the Air and Space Museum is a place where visitors can see visually stunning feats of aeronautical engineering, while learning about the past, present, and future of aerospace. The museum is also a center for research into the history and

Hailey Baptiste is only 17-years-old and is looking to turn pro this year. Earlier this year, the American rallied past seven opponents to claim her first title at an ITF 25K in Plantation, Fla. In the final, she posted a straight-set win over world No. 272 Anna Bondor.

When Serena Williams got married to her now-husband Alexis Ohanian last November, it was a wedding that was fit for royalty. Despite the fairytale day, it may not come close to her friend Meghan Markle's wedding to Prince Harry on May 19.

A couple of major WTA stars were missing at the start of Indian Wells (namely last year's finalists Victoria Azarenka and Serena Williams), but none have been missed quite as much as Petra Kvitova. The Czech suffered severe tendon and nerve injuries to her left hand and fingers in December

Novak Djokovic has shared a day, or at least a few moments, in the life of a world No. 1 tennis star. After his disappointing performance in Shanghai (which included the destruction of a racquet and shirt), he's showing fans a different side of himself. "Morning jog, feeding off that

The offseason has come early for Serena Williams but her one-year-old daughter may not have gotten the memo. Alexis Olympia Ohanian, Jr. is staying extremely busy.

A top-knotted Pierre-Hugues Herbert got knotted up internally in Bercy, and then externalized that. Playing alongside compatriot Nicolas Mahut in defense of their 2019 Paris Masters title, Herbert lodged a forehand just behind the baseline against Marcelo Arevalo and Matwe Middelkoop.

Roger Federer is again the holder of the RF logo that has been associated with his clothing for most of his career. Federer has not used the logo on his shirts since switching clothing companies two years ago, when he began wearing Uniqlo in an agreement rumored at $30 million

BASTAD, Sweden (AP) -- Mona Barthel of Germany reached her second quarterfinals of the year when she beat qualifier Gabriela Dabrowski of Canada 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 at the Swedish Open on Thursday. Barthel, chasing her third WTA title, will face Kaia Kanepi for the first time on Friday. The Estonian

Well, your Spin keeper thought this was the photo of the week, the day and night when the lights went out in Montreal. (Kudos to you if you get the pop-culture reference there.) Turns out that was just a dimly-lit warmup act for the main event: Jelena Jankovic breaking a

TIANJIN, China (AP) -- Top-seeded Jelena Jankovic was upset by Zheng Saisai of China 6-3, 6-3 in the second round of the Tianjin Open on Thursday. The 112th-ranked Zheng converted five of nine break points against Jankovic to notch her first career win over a Top 20 player. Hometown favorite

MOSCOW (AP)—U.S. Open champion Marin Cilic reached the quarterfinals of the Kremlin Cup after grinding out a 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 victory over Russian wild card entrant Evgeny Donskoy on Wednesday. The second-seeded Croatian struggled at times on his way to victory in 1 hour 52 minutes, his first match of

MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) —Top-seeded defending champion Ana Ivanovic of Serbia advanced to the Monterrey Open semifinals Friday night, beating Kristina Mladenovic of France 6-3, 6-2. On Saturday in the hard-court event at Club Sonoma, Ivanovic will face third-seeded Caroline Garcia of France. Garcia, the runner-up last week in the Mexico

PARIS (AP) The Tennis Integrity Unit says French player Constant Lestienne has been banned for seven months for gambling on matches, with half of the sentence suspended. The 24-year-old Lestienne has also been fined $10,000 after admitting to the charges of betting on tennis. The TIU, which investigated Lestienne in

PRAGUE (AP) — Tomas Berdych says he won't return to Melbourne next month to play for the Czech Republic in the first round of Davis Cup against Australia. Berdych, who helped the country win the 2012-13 Davis Cup titles, announced his decision after beating Ryan Harrison 6-3, 7-6 (6), 6-2

BIEL, Switzerland (AP) — Former U.S. Open runner-up Roberta Vinci lost on the opening day of the first Biel Ladies Open on Monday. The fourth-seeded Italian, now ranked No. 35, lost to 58th-ranked Kristyna Pliskova of the Czech Republic 6-4, 6-4. Their first-round match opened the main draw on the

MONTREAL (AP) — Serena Williams has pulled out of next week's Rogers Cup hard-court tournament, citing personal reasons. The tournament announced Williams' withdrawal on Saturday. The 23-time Grand Slam champion is coming off the most lopsided defeat of her career, a 6-1, 6-0 loss to Johanna Konta in San Jose,