How well do you know the Australian Open, which is scheduled to begin at Melbourne Park on Monday morning (Sunday night EST)? Try this AP quiz about the year's first Grand Slam tennis tournament: ___ 1st Round: Novak Djokovic is back in Australia to pursue a 10th championship there and

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) Novak Djokovic has a new goal for the year. He calls it the Djoker Slam. The No. 1-ranked player has one thing missing from his fast-growing collection of 11 Grand Slam trophies. ''The French Open. It's the one I never won,'' Djokovic said early Monday, after winning

NEW YORK (AP) — A game from the end of his bid for what would have been the first calendar-year Grand Slam in men's tennis since 1969, Novak Djokovic covered his face with a towel, hiding his tears during a changeover. For 27 Grand Slam matches in 2021, on hard

Former Top 5 player Mark Philippoussis, who lost to Roger Federer in the Swiss’ maiden Grand Slam title run at Wimbledon ten years ago, says the 32-year-old still has great things left in him. “There’s no way Roger Federer is finished,” Philippoussis told reporters ahead of the Statoil Masters Tennis,

Shortly after the draw for the U.S. Open set up Serena Williams' path to completing a Grand Slam, she offered her own analysis. ''It's not anything simple or easy to go through,'' Williams said. Actually, judging by her head-to-head records against many possible opponents, it might be. Still, there are

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) -- Eugenie Bouchard's quest to match her stellar 2014 record in Grand Slam tournaments started on a positive note when she beat Anna-Lena Friedsam of Germany 6-2, 6-4 Monday in the first round of the Australian Open. Bouchard, who advanced to the semifinals at three majors last

With her 6-2, 5-7, 6-4 victory over Karolina Muchova in the final of Roland Garros on Saturday, Iga Swiatek not only lifted the Coupe Suzanne Lenglen for the third time in her career (2020, 2022 and 2023), but it was also the fourth overall Grand Slam title of her career,

WASHINGTON (AP)—Tennis great Rod Laver wants to make something perfectly clear: If Rafael Nadal wins this month’s Australian Open for a fourth major title in a row, it would be “a great effort”—but not a Grand Slam. That’s because a true Grand Slam is winning the Australian Open, French Open,

Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal both hit big milestones at Roland Garros on Wednesday, with Djokovic reaching his 40th career Grand Slam semifinal and Nadal moving into his 35th. They’re second and third on the men’s all-time list for most career Grand Slam semifinal appearances after, of course, Roger Federer.

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) Novak Djokovic says Grand Slam trophies and the No. 1 ranking are no longer his priorities. The top-ranked Serb, who has won 12 major titles, said after a light training session in Belgrade on Friday that he felt emotionally drained after winning the French Open in June

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) After all the advice that Steffi Graf gave her, Angelique Kerber was able to return a favor to the retired champion on Saturday. Graf's record of 22 Grand Slam singles titles in the Open era is intact - for now - after Kerber staged a stunning upset

PARIS (AP) Novak Djokovic wanted to relish the moment, rightly so. For more than a decade, he tried to win the French Open, the lone Grand Slam title missing from his collection, coming close but never quite sealing the deal. Three losses in the final. Four more in the semifinals.

NEW YORK -- Bob and Mike Bryan came into last year's U.S. Open without a title in their previous four Grand Slam tournaments -- an eternity by their standards. Now they've won four straight. The twins figure the margin between those two streaks is slim. "It's been going our way.

Serena Williams heads to Wimbledon halfway to a Grand Slam. If it were up to her, no one would notice. Williams prefers to downplay her chances of becoming the first tennis player in more than a quarter-century to win all four major tournaments - Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, U.S.

PARIS (AP) Martina Hingis and Leander Paes each completed a career Grand Slam in mixed doubles by winning the French Open final against Sania Mirza and Ivan Dodig 4-6, 6-4, 10-8 on Friday. It was the 10th mixed doubles title at a major for India's Paes, the fifth for Switzerland's

It wasn’t easy—he dropped the first set—but Novak Djokovic bounced back to reach the semifinals of Wimbledon on Tuesday, defeating Andrey Rublev in the quarterfinals, 4-6, 6-1, 6-4, 6-3. Djokovic now achieves a big milestone: he's through to his 46th Grand Slam semifinal, tying Roger Federer’s all-time men’s record. MOST

LONDON (AP) Rod Laver figured Novak Djokovic might very well be the player, and this might very well be the year, that would finally end his distinction as the last man to win a calendar-year Grand Slam. ''It's a tough road,'' Laver said Saturday in a telephone interview with The

NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. Open tennis tournament (all times local): 11:10 p.m. Novak Djokovic still has his Grand Slam chance. Pushed to a fifth set by Alexander Zverev, the top-seeded Djokovic won it 6-2 to advance to Sunday's U.S. Open final. Djokovic will play No.

The new tennis season is just four days away, and we're counting down to first serve with 10 burning questions. Seventh: It hasn't been easy for anyone in the ATP to break through in this era, with Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray hoarding Grand Slam titles.

NEW YORK (AP) — Retired tennis player James Blake is slamming New York City for not firing a police officer who tackled him in a case of mistaken identity. Police officer James Frascatore was docked five days of vacation time for smashing Blake to the ground outside a hotel in