MELBOURNE, Australia(AP) Serena Williams has beaten China's Peng Shuai in straight sets to advance to the fourth round of the Australian Open. Williams, who won the singles titles at Melbourne Park in 2003, 2005 and 2007, beat Peng 6-1, 6-4 to start off Saturday's play at Rod Laver Arena. Peng

WIMBLEDON, England(AP) Top-ranked Dinara Safina is a step closer to her first Grand Slam title after beating Rossana de Los Rios of Paraguay 6-3, 7-5 in the second round at Wimbledon. The 23-year-old Russian never faced a break point Thursday and took the first set with a hard forehand down

MIAMI (AP) Melanie Oudin defeated Julia Goerges of Germany 7-5, 6-3 in the first round of the Sony Ericsson Open on Tuesday. Oudin led 5-2, but allowed Goerges to pull even before winning the first set. American wildcard Madison Keys, a 16-year-old ranked No. 421, took Patty Schnyder of Switzerland

LONDON (AP) The Latest from Wimbledon (all times local): 9:23 p.m. Tomas Berdych's fourth-round match against Jiri Vesely at Wimbledon was suspended by darkness at two sets each. Berdych, the 2010 runner-up at Wimbledon, had five match points in the fourth set, but Vesely forced the tiebreaker and evened the

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) Roger Federer swatted a stray ball toward a ball girl but misjudged the distance, and his leisurely lob bounced past her and over the backstop into a photo pit, drawing titters from the Wimbledon crowd. Federer's first-round match was a laugher. Aside from the errant lob, he

PARIS(AP) Defending champion Ana Ivanovic was most certainly not herself Sunday at the French Open. The exact cause remains a bit of a mystery. Ivanovic was eliminated at Roland Garros in the fourth round, losing to ninth-seeded Victoria Azarenka of Belarus 6-2, 6-3. `I started really well, and I felt

LONDON (AP) — The Latest from Wimbledon (all times local): 9:20 p.m. After losing in the first round at both Queen's and Eastbourne, Frances Tiafoe is loving it at Wimbledon. The 19-year-old Washington native defeated Robin Haase 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (5), 7-5 in the first round at the All England

STRASBOURG, France (AP) Tamira Paszek overcame a second-set blip to beat Alberta Brianti of Italy 6-4, 0-6, 6-4 in the first round of the Strasbourg International on Monday. The eighth-seeded Austrian player constantly pressured Brianti's serve but could only convert four of her 15 breakpoint chances and dropped her own

VINA DEL MAR, Chile (AP)—Eighth-seeded Federico Delbonis of Argentina defeated Uruguay's Pablo Cuevas 6-3, 6-4 on Tuesday to reach the second round of the Royal Guard Open in Chile. Paolo Lorenzi of Italy also advanced, beating Colombia's Alejandro Gonzalez 6-2, 6-1. The top four seeded players, who received byes into

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PARIS -- Sloane Stephens of the United States reached the French Open's fourth round for the second consecutive year with a 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-3 victory Saturday over 92nd-ranked Marina Erakovic, who was penalized a point in the third set for getting coached. The 17th-seeded Stephens won the last three

Serena Williams, who will try to win her fifth consecutive Grand Slam title at the U.S. Open, acknowledges that she is facing a difficult draw. In her quarter of the bracket, the world No. 1 could face fellow Americans Sloane Stephens or CoCo Vandeweghe in the third round, Madison Keys

NEW YORK (AP) Andy Murray needed an hour, 10 minutes to win his first set, then only seven minutes more than that to win the next two in advancing to the second round of the U.S. Open with a 7-6 (5), 6-2, 6-3 victory over Somdev Devvarman. Murray, in search

ISTANBUL (AP) Second-seeded Elina Svitolina of Ukraine was beaten 6-1, 6-3 by Magdalena Rybarikova of Slovakia in the first round of the Istanbul Cup on Monday. Rybarikova took advantage of a far more effective service game, winning 70 percent of her first serves, compared to 41 percent for Svitolina. Svitolina

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) Top-seeded Caroline Wozniacki will face Gisela Dulko of Argentina in the first round of the Australian Open, while 2010 finalist Justine Henin has drawn a qualifier. In the tournament draw on Friday, fourth-seeded Venus Williams was placed in the top half with Wozniacki. Williams will play Sarah

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) Roger Federer wasted no time in reaching the third round at Wimbledon, beating Adrian Mannarino of France 6-2, 6-3, 6-2 Thursday. The players were kept waiting in the locker room by the two preceding matches on Centre Court that both went the distance, but a dominant display

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AP)—Defending champion Roger Federer cruised into the second round of the ABN AMRO tournament on Wednesday, beating Grega Zemlja 6-3, 6-1. Federer, a two-time winner at the indoor hard court tournament, had taken a two-week break after losing a grueling five-set semifinal to Andy Murray at the Australian

AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) Russian star Maria Sharapova beat Italy's Alberta Brianti 6-2, 6-3 on Monday to advance to the second round in the ASB Classic. Sharapova was scheduled to play Spain's Carla Suarez Navarro, but fifth-seeded Anastasija Sevastova's late withdrawal because of illness led to a reshuffle of the

PARIS(AP) Andy Roddick's longest run at the French Open has ended with a 6-4, 6-2, 6-3 loss to Gael Monfils of France in the fourth round. The sixth-seeded Roddick was the last U.S. man left in the tournament. He was outplayed pretty much throughout by the 11th-seeded Monfils. Monday's match

A number of nations got set to do battle in the opening round of the 2015 Davis Cup. In 2014, Switzerland—led by Roger Federer and Stan Wawrinka—won its first Davis Cup title by defeating France in the final of the international team competition. Starting the week after the Australian Open,