PARIS -- Serena Williams will begin her bid for a second French Open championship and 16th Grand Slam title overall by facing 83rd-ranked Anna Tatishvili in the first round. A year ago in Paris, Williams lost her opening match to 111th-ranked Virginie Razzano, the American's only first-round loss in 50

NUR-SULTAN, Kazakhstan (AP) — Top-seeded Aslan Karatsev and third-seeded Dusan Lajovic both lost their opening matches at the Astana Open on Thursday. Karatsev, who reached the Australian Open semifinals this year, lost to Finnish player Emil Ruusuvuori 7-6 (6), 6-4. Lajovic was eliminated by South Korean opponent Kwon Soon-woo 7-4,

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Defending champion Frances Tiafoe squandered an early lead and lost Tuesday to Britain's Daniel Evans in the first round of the Delray Beach Open, 3-6, 7-6 (1), 7-5. Tiafoe, seeded No. 3, lost his third match in a row. He won the first five games

Madison Keys, who lost to Sloane Stephens her Miami opener, 6-4, 6-2, says she is feeling more pressure after reaching the Australian Open semifinals. Down 6-4, 5-0 on the changeover, Keys began to cry heavily. “I just kind of let the emotions get to me,” she said. “It's like you're

Sam Groth and Nicole Gibbs are giving fans a behind-the-scenes look at the world of professional tennis all year long in My Tennis Life. To read more updates from Sam and Nicole, go to tennischannel.com. Hi everyone, My last week in Rome wasn't great on court. I lost in the

LONDON (AP) -- American Lauren Davis defeated 12th-seeded Flavia Pennetta of Italy 6-4, 7-6 (4) Wednesday to advance to the third round of Wimbledon, equaling her best performance of her 10 Grand Slam tournaments. The Ohio-born Davis, 20, lost in the first round of all four Grand Slam tournaments last

Lost in an array of Fed Cup results last year was one quirky little moment, which has since complied over 500,000 YouTube views. During the 2016 Group 1 Europe/Africa tie Israel and Estonia, a multi-stroke point played out that climaxed (or deescalated) with The Overhead Smash That Wasn't. On the

A rain-interrupted day at the Miami Open eventually gave way to sun, and for most of the favorites, victory. But not for fifth-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska, whose miserable start to the season continued in Key Biscayne. The world No. 8 lost to Mirjana Lucic-Baroni for the second time this season—and the

After Naomi Osaka turned 25 in mid-October, she took to Instagram to thank the legions of well-wishers who left her congratulatory birthday messages. Her own post concluded with the words, “I really don't know what I did to deserve it all. Love you and I’m sure I'll see you around.”

BRISBANE, Australia -- With the Australian Open just over a week away, Venus Williams and Sloane Stephens withdrew from warm-up tournaments on Sunday and another American, John Isner, could soon join them. Williams, who lost the final of the Auckland WTA tournament on Saturday, pulled out of the Hobart International,

To improve your ability to maneuver your racquet, try using a smaller grip. As I've aged and lost strength (I'm now 67), I have found it more and more difficult to manipulate the racquet as I'd like. When I was young, I used a 4 5/8 grip. Then I dropped

STUTTGART, Germany (AP) Zarina Diyas routed Germany's Fed Cup player and former Wimbledon runner-up Sabine Lisicki 6-0, 6-0 in the first round of the Porsche Grand Prix on Wednesday. Kazakhstan's top player had lost in the first round of her previous two tournaments, but brushed aside Lisicki in 64 minutes

Grigor Dimitrov snapped his streak of five straight first-round exits with a victory over Bjorn Fratangelo in his Wimbledon opener. The Bulgarian had not won a match since beating Ivo Karlovic in the Istanbul Open semifinals. In the final against Diego Schwartzman, which he lost in three sets, the 25-year-old

The doubles team of Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis has now surpassed the winning streak of Gigi Fernandez and Natasha Zvereva, who won 28 straight in 1994. Mirza and Hingis beat Raluca Olaru and Yaroslava Shvedova in Sydney for their record-setting 29th straight victory. The Indian and Swiss haven’t lost

Mirjana Lucic-Baroni upset world No. 3 Simona Halep in the second round of Roland Garros, a week after a monumental collapse in Strasbourg. The 33-year-old led Madison Keys by a set and 5-0 but lost the match, 4-6, 7-6 (3) 7-6 (0). “I would like that nobody saw the result,

PARIS - May 28, 2017 - Angelique Kerber, who lost in the first round of the French Open against Ekaterina Makarova, said that she can't find her footing on clay. The world No. 1 has fallen in the opening round of Stuttgart, Rome, and now the French Open. She has

NEW YORK (AP) -- Former champion Samantha Stosur is out at the U.S. Open. The 24th-seeded Australian lost to Kaia Kanepi 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (8) in the second round Thursday. Stosur, who won the 2011 U.S. Open title, holds the distinction as the last woman to beat Serena Williams at

Madison Keys lost the first eight games of her Mutua Madrid Open quarterfinal Tuesday. Her opponent, Ons Jabeur, was coming off a comprehensive win over Jelena Ostapenko that also included an opening bagel set. When Keys finally got on the scoreboard, she raised her arms in triumph. The moment foreshadowed

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Nick Kyrgios lost his cool, then a point, then a game and then the match. The all-too-familiar trend that has often overshadowed the super-popular, super-talented and super-perplexing Australian's career path continued Tuesday at the Miami Open, where Kyrgios was ousted in the fourth round by

Eugenie Bouchard, who fell to Kristina Mladenovic at Birmingham, 6-3, 4-6, 6-0, has now lost 10 of her last 11 matches. When asked whether she was upset and angry, the world No. 11 said, “Every negative adjective you could think of. Just very, very frustrated. You just have to keep