The length of this year's men's semifinals led to disruptions at Wimbledon, but players largely played down concerns about the scheduling. The six-hour, 36-minute semifinal between Kevin Anderson and John Isner was the longest semifinal played at the tournament, and the third longest match on record. It was followed by

Throughout the Rogers Cup tournaments in Montreal (ATP) and Toronto (WTA), we'll preview the upcoming days' must-see matches. Elina Svitolina [5] vs. Caroline Wozniacki [6] Here she is again. Wozniacki will play her sixth final of 2017 in Toronto; can she finally win one? With a 46-15 record and a

World No. 1 Ashleigh Barty rallied from a break down at 2-1 in the second set to beat Germany’s Laura Siegemund, 6-0, 7-5, in her opening match at the WTA 500 event in Stuttgart on Wednesday. While Barty was playing her first-ever match in Stuttgart, Siegemund has had a love

PARIS (AP) — Just a few months after thinking she might never play tennis again, Petra Martic is through to the fourth round of the French Open. Martic was sidelined for 10 months with a back injury shortly after she lost at Wimbledon qualifying last year. It was initially thought

A few hours after one sentimental favorite lost in the first round, another one won—and wrote his name into the history books. Gael Monfils defeated Thiago Seyboth Wild at Roland Garros on Monday night, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, for his 122nd career win at a Grand Slam, breaking the all-time

MADRID (AP) — Rafael Nadal left Madrid feeling better about his fitness than he did when he arrived, and is now planning to play in Rome while continuing his preparations for Roland Garros. Nadal lost in straight sets to the 31st-ranked Jiri Lehecka in the fourth round at Madrid on

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Second-seeded Karolina Pliskova and third-seeded Dominika Cibulkova both lost their opening matches at the Dubai Tennis Championships on Tuesday. Plikova fell 6-2, 6-4 to Kristina Mladenovic, while Cibulkova lost 6-2, 4-6, 6-2 to Ekaterina Makarova in the second round after both had received byes.

Irina Falconi is living it up in one of the most beautiful tour stops this week, Indian Wells. The American just returned stateside from Kuala Lumpur, where she was the only player to take a set off of eventual champion Ashleigh Barty. Falconi is back in the Top 100 and

World No. 10 Andrey Rublev held off a spirited challenge from Denis Shapovalov, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, to get within one win of his fourth ATP title of the year at the 500-level event in St. Petersburg, Russia. Shapovalov had won the pair’s last two meetings in straight sets and things

At the start of his third-round Roland Garros match against Germany's Jan-Lennard Struff on Saturday, Alex de Minaur had one goal in mind: become the first Australian man to reach the fourth round at the clay-court major in 17 years. By the end of it, the No. 11 seed had

This year marks the 50th anniversary of TENNIS Magazine's founding in 1965. To commemorate the occasion, we'll look back each Thursday at one of the 50 moments that have defined the last half-century in our sport. “It reminds me of those Vegas windstorms, the kind that begin with a faint,

Denis Shapovalov, 18-year-old Canadian, seems to have had a revelation in Montreal this week. “Yeah, tennis,” the 2016 Wimbledon junior champion said after saving four match points to beat Rogerio Dutra Silva in his opener. “It’s more than just going for the shots. You have to have really good defense.

It reminds me of those Vegas windstorms, the kind that begin with a faint, ominous rustling of leaves, and ultimately turn into high-pitched, gale-force, three-day blows.” This was how Andre Agassi described what it was like to begin hearing a soon-to-be-infamous three-word slogan shouted at him by fans in the

For the last few weeks we’ve been hearing a lot about Andy Murray’s clay-court game. He claimed he had a chance at the French Open title. He said he was going to make a bigger push on the surface this year. He brought coach Ivan Lendl with him to Monte

MATCH POINT: Jabeur finishes off Muguruza

In hockey, a two-goal lead is often referred to as the most dangerous lead in the sport. The team in front can become too comfortable, and lose the urgency it might feel if it led by just one goal. After Wednesday's round-robin match at the ATP Finals between Rafael Nadal

STOCKHOLM (AP)—Roger Federer beat Germany’s Florian Mayer 6-4, 6-3 to win the Stockholm Open on Sunday, and match Pete Sampras’ total of 64 career titles. “It’s amazing that I’m there where Pete’s ended his career on,” Federer said. “You never know when it’s your last one, that’s why you want

DOHA, Qatar (AP)—Jo-Wilfried Tsonga shrugged off a slow start to down Gael Monfils 7-5, 6-3 in an all-French final at the Qatar Open on Saturday and lift his preparations for the Australian Open. The sixth-ranked Tsonga, who reached the final when Roger Federer withdrew injured, fell behind 3-1 then found

MONACO (AP)—Jo-Wilfried Tsonga celebrated his 27th birthday by saving all six break points in a 6-2, 6-4 win Tuesday against Philipp Kohlschreiber to reach the third round of the Monte Carlo Masters. Andy Murray started his clay-court season in style by beating Viktor Troicki 6-0, 6-3. Tsonga, who was serenaded

NEW YORK—With the exception of the Paris Masters, which gave us a maiden Masters champion (David Ferrer) and ATP finalist (Jerzy Janowicz), it’s been an extremely predictable 2012 season in men’s tennis. Every tournament of significance has been won by Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, or Andy Murray, and