Novak Djokovic spent return games squinting at the sun, trying to read John Isner’s 130 M.P.H. serves blurring toward him. One point from forcing a third-set tiebreaker, Djokovic finally blinked. A resourceful Isner showed some timely defense and exploited a Djokovic double fault and backhand error to earn his lone

PARIS (AP) -- Poor Nicolas Mahut. Probably was deflating enough that he lost his first-round match at the French Open. Then the Frenchman went to his news conference. That began with this curious exchange with a reporter, according to the official transcript, which wound up making the rounds on Twitter:

So the news comes over just as I’m turning off the coffee maker and getting ready to hop in the car taking me to JFK (at long last!): Elena Dementieva, Anastasia Myskina, Venus Williams—they’re all out! Of the three, the loss by Myskina is one that surprises me most. Then

As many of you know, TW likes to help out anyone in the tennis community at-large, in any way we can. Hey, we're all in this together, right? Also, it's good to know what other tennis folks are up to, especially when they are no longer high on the radar

ROME -- Novak Djokovic is back on track after a right wrist injury sidelined him last week. And Serena Williams is cruising again, too, after being slowed by a left thigh problem. The second-ranked Djokovic overcame a stiff challenge from David Ferrer before grinding out a 7-5, 4-6, 6-3 win

“I feel a lot of urgency. I feel like it’s, you know, kinda the last hurrah here and next week to put together some results … Every match is a big match for me right now and I’ll take every one I can get.”—Sam Querrey, after he battled through five

Flying in yesterday I looked down at the suburbs of Paris as the Air France Airbus approached CDG airport. We were only a few thousand feet up by then, and it struck me how similar the landscape below looked to almost any other one in what can loosely be called

HIGHLIGHTS: Cam Norrie d. Nick Kyrgios, in the second round of last week's Atlanta Open.

Melbourne, Australia (AP)—Top-seeded Juan Martin del Potro outclassed defending champion Bernard Tomic 6-3, 6-1 Saturday in a 53-minute final of the Sydney International. Del Potro finished the match with his eighth ace and made only four unforced errors in securing his 18th career title and first in Sydney. He lost

LONDON (AP) -- On the first Wednesday at Wimbledon in 2013, Sergiy Stakhovsky shocked seven-time champion Roger Federer in the second round, then did ''like, 355 press conferences'' and proceeded to lose his next four Grand Slam matches. On the first Wednesday at Wimbledon in 2014, the 90th-ranked Stakhovsky pulled

NEW YORK (AP) -- Kei Nishikori could tell from all the messages on his phone that the fans back home in Japan were watching in the middle of the night. The 24-year-old stunned top-ranked Novak Djokovic 6-4, 1-6, 7-6 (4), 6-3 in stifling heat Saturday at the U.S. Open to

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) In one of his final media conferences as a player, Lleyton Hewitt told everyone on Saturday what they already knew - that's he's never lacked for motivation during a career which spanned three decades. And also no surprise that the motivation part is what he'll miss most

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova have confirmed their quarterfinal date at the Australian Open, each advancing in straight sets on Sunday to ensure a rematch in Melbourne Park between last year's finalists. Fifth-seeded Sharapova fired a career-high 21 aces and hit 58 winners in her 7-5, 7-5

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) Bruno Soares didn't have much down time between his Australian Open doubles championship matches. No worries, he won them both. On Sunday afternoon, he added the mixed doubles title with Elena Vesnina to the men's doubles championship he won with Jamie Murray. Vesnina and Soares won the

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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) Andy Murray now has another burden to bear, and it's not in Britain. The 27-year-old Scottish player earned the dubious distinction Sunday of becoming the only man in the Open Era to lose the Australian Open final four times. For years, Murray lived under the pressure of

LONDON (AP) John Isner could hardly believe it, either. What shaped up as another possible lengthy five-setter at Wimbledon for the winner of the longest match in tennis history - Isner and U.S. Open champion Marin Cilic resumed their suspended third-round match at 10-all in the final set Saturday -

WimbleSpin harbors this regal fortnight's latest off-court news. THE AFTERMATH CoCo Vandeweghe came out swinging against Maria Sharapova in their Wimbledon quarterfinal, ultimately succumbing 6-2 in the third set, but she wasn't done swinging afterward. The No. 47-ranked American told the press of what she perceived to be the 2004

In any line of work, labels and reputations are hard to shake. In tennis, Agnieszka Radwanska is the sport’s avant-garde artist, David Ferrer the untiring grinder and Gael Monfils the charismatic entertainer. What about world No. 12 Carla Suarez Navarro? She lacks a defined label, but is proof that even

source: APWF Novak Djokovic of Serbia, center, takes a selfie with officials after winning his men's singles match against Zhang Ze of China in the China Open tennis tournament at the National Tennis Stadium in Beijing, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) BEIJING (AP) Novak Djokovic extended his winning