FLASHBACK: The Break: Becker faces possible prison time

Former world No. 7 Nicole Vaidisova won her first match on the WTA tour in four years at the Miami Open by defeating Timea Babos, 6-1, 7-6 (4). On Friday, she lost to world No. 3 Simona Halep, 6-4, 2-6, 6-1. The 25-year-old began playing again last September on the

Andy Murray won the first ATP clay-court title of his career a few days ago in Munich. Just why it took Murray so long to sharpen up his game on clay is an interesting issue that’s difficult to resolve, but the very question supports the idea that the 27-year-old, recently

Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova shared many a stage throughout their friendly, yet highly documented rivalry, and this week they shared yet an additional moment in the spotlight with another woman who ranks high on the power index, Oprah Winfrey. The two former World No. 1s appeared on the media

LONDON -- Maria Sharapova took quite a shot at Serena Williams -- and it was nowhere near a tennis court. At her pre-Wimbledon news conference Saturday, Sharapova was asked about a recent Rolling Stone article where the author surmised that critical comments directed at an unnamed player by Williams were

LONDON (AP) — Try as they might, the reporters grilling Novak Djokovic couldn't get the three-time Wimbledon champion to criticize John McEnroe for comparing him to Tiger Woods. McEnroe, himself a three-time champion at the All England Club, said on the BBC that Djokovic was "distracted" and the person who

ROME (AP) Running out of room and with ticket demand soaring, local organizers want to move the Italian Open from its historic Foro Italico venue to a new location near Rome's main airport. ''We can't fit in here anymore,'' Italian tennis federation president Angelo Binaghi said Sunday. ''The hunger for

Following Boris Becker’s love life has become something of a spectator sport in Germany. The tennis legend, now a pop culture icon in his homeland, has never shied away from his ladies’ man reputation, having been involved in several high-profile relationships – and spectacular break-ups – over the years. This

MELBOURNE, Australia(AP) Justine Henin is making her Grand Slam comeback with a new perspective on life and tennis. The seven-time Grand Slam champion stunned the tennis world in May 2008 by announcing her retirement while ranked No. 1, saying she had lost her passion for the sport. Fast forward to

“When I was growing up I would go to tennis and people would come up to my parents and they would ridicule them and say she’s a girl from Hyderabad, you think she is going to play Wimbledon? But obviously my parents didn’t care.”—Sania Mirza, to NDTV, while discussing the

Love means zero when you're keeping score in tennis, but that doesn't mean it's not a major, and valuable, part of life on tour. Is there anything more romantic than traveling the world together while chasing your dreams? Tennis couples have been forming for as long as the game has

For the second time in two years, Anastasia Potapova was completely alone. The first time was at 2024 Roland Garros, following a split with longtime coach Igor Andreev. “I felt inside of my head that I was doing something wrong with my tennis,” Potapova told me last fall in Wuhan.

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LONDON (AP)—Maria Sharapova reached up and flicked an over-the-shoulder backhand volley for a winner to wrap up a close-as-can-be first set. About an hour later, she just as easily swatted away questions from reporters hungry for more juice in her feud with Serena Williams. ''I've said everything that I wanted

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Former tennis player Ilie Nastase was arrested twice in the space of six hours in his native Romania on Friday, first on suspicion of driving a car while drunk and refusing to take a breathalyzer test, and then for going through a red light on a

LUBBOCK, Texas -- Margaret Osborne duPont, the winner of more than 30 Grand Slam singles and doubles titles spanning three decades, has died, She was 94. DuPont died late Wednesday in El Paso while in hospice care, Mary Skinner of VNA Hospice said Thursday. Other details were not released. DuPont

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) Alex Bogomolov Jr. is making the most of his belated arrival in the limelight. After a mostly mediocre career, the 28-year-old put together the best results of his life last season, rising from outside the top 100 to No. 33 in the rankings to be voted by

What is it about a Grand Slam event that brings out the feisty retorts and more or less trash talk among tennis pros? Unless they've been living under a grass-court tarp lately, all followers of the sport know that Serena Williams remarked to a Rolling Stone reporter about the sordid

NEW YORK(AP) Bob and Mike Bryan were doubly disappointed this week. The top-ranked Americans were upset in the semifinals of the U.S. Open on Wednesday, falling 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (6) to the No. 4 seeds, Lukas Dlouhy and Leander Paes. A day earlier, they had planned to release their new

Entering the Monte Carlo Country Club on this day in 1991, 34-year-old Bjorn Borg had not played an ATP Tour match in nearly seven years. Borg’s last two decades had been polar opposites. The ‘70s was all about ascent, the tale of a quiet boy from Sweden who had won