Skipping over Venus’ first round is quite easy to do, especially when given a true gem as in her second round match against 40-year old Kimiko Date-Krumm. Edging her veteran opponent, Venus came out the victor 6-7(6), 6-3, 8-6. Next up on Friday for the No. 23 seed is Maria-Jose

Casper Ruud is having fun being a part of a team again—even if it’s not always sunshine and roses, as he revealed in a hilarious Laver Cup press conference on Thursday. Ruud and more have been taking in the atmosphere in Vancouver, Canada as a part of Team Europe, where

On Monday, Nov. 13, Andrey Rublev will take on Daniil Medvedev in round-robin play at the Nitto ATP Finals. This has been a head-to-head series that has been dominated by Medvedev, who is 7-2 in nine career meetings with one of his childhood friends. Rublev also hasn’t won a set

MALAGA, Spain (AP) — Jannik Sinner saved three match points before ending Novak Djokovic’s streak of 21 straight wins in Davis Cup singles matches, 6-2, 2-6, 7-5, to pull Italy level at 1-1 with Serbia in their semifinal showdown on Saturday. Sinner’s win avenged his loss to Djokovic for the

On Monday, Adrian Mannarino rose to a career-high No. 19 ranking before taking the court for his first-round match at the Australian Open. By the end of his duel with 2014 champion Stan Wawrinka, the No. 20 seed came out on the winning end of yet another grueling Grand Slam

A quick look at the U.S. Open : LOOKAHEAD TO MONDAY Venus Williams is the only American player with a major singles title to her name in the men's or women's fields and will open her tournament on Day 1 in Arthur Ashe Stadium against Viktoria Kuzmova of Slovakia, a

With the cancellation of the 2020 BNP Paribas Open, Tennis Channel is re-airing matches from previous Indian Wells tournaments. This match can be seen on Wednesday at 5:30 PM ET/2:30 PM PT. If there’s one thing we’ve learned about Sofia Kenin over the past year, it’s that she is one

On the heels of his Tokyo victory, Novak Djokovic picked up where he left off to cruise past Denis Shapovalov, 6-3, 6-3 in the Shanghai second round on Wednesday. He now leads the young Canadian 3-0. “It's nice to be back. And also, it feels very good to play as

After literally starting over from scratch in terms of his ranking, Jack Sock has fought his way back on to the game’s big stage. True, the No. 192 next to his name is a far cry from his one-time height of No. 8, but for his recent efforts on the

I've seen Alejandro Falla at his best. In 2010 I watched the lefty outplay Roger Federer on the king's turf, Wimbledon's Centre Court, for two sets and parts of another. He actually served for the colossal upset, only to get broken, drop a tiebreaker, and lose the fifth set 6-0.

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP)—The U.S. Davis Cup team is still considered the favorite against Chile despite playing on a clay surface in the first-round Davis Cup series. The Americans feature No. 8 Andy Roddick, No. 32 John Isner and the top-ranked doubles team of Bob and Mike Bryan. Jim Courier, a

STANFORD, Calif. (AP)—Marion Bartoli was in trouble when her father came out of the stands to give her a few words of advice. The talk from her coach did her some good. Bartoli won 11 consecutive games to beat Mallory Burdette of Stanford University, 7-5, 6-0, in the second round

When Rafael Nadal wins a tennis match in just over an hour (literally—60 minutes, four seconds) you know it was less of a contest and more of a drubbing. That was certainly the case today in an untroubled, 6-1, 6-1 victory over Mikhail Kukushkin to reach the quarterfinals of Monte

PARIS (AP)—Robin Soderling of Sweden won his first Masters 1000 title Sunday by beating Gael Monfils of France 6-1, 7-6 (1) in the Paris Masters final. The fourth-seeded Swede hit a forehand volley on match point, then fell to the ground on his back to celebrate the most prestigious of

As a 20-year-old, Novak Djokovic reached his first career Grand Slam final at the US Open in 2007. Anyone who happened to watch his second-round match against Radek Stepanek couldn’t be too surprised. After all, if he was capable of surviving a battle like that in the early stages, anything

NEW YORK–As a reward for finally getting a win, Jack Sock will play a marquee night match inside Louis Armstrong Stadium on Wednesday night. The world No. 18 entered his home Grand Slam on an eight-match losing streak. He stopped the ski on Monday against Guido Andreozzi with a straight-set

After competing in Charleston, West Virginia and Kentucky, Ajla Tomljanovic is well adjusted to the sport's new climate. On Thursday, ahead of Cincinnati beginning in New York, she talked about the fan-less environment and how she's gotten back into the swing of things. "I've already experienced it and honestly we've

Maria Sharapova and Victoria Azarenka faced each other in a final for the third time in 2012 in Stuttgart, Germany. Through March 2012, it appeared as if Azarenka was running away from the rest of the pack on the WTA Tour as the world No. 1 had claimed four titles

Great servers have great tosses. When Feliciano Lopez is serving well, he lifts the ball into the air—and then the sphere seemingly waits for him to hit it. It makes his first serves, which can reach speeds over 140 m.p.h., look even more imposing. From stasis to speed in a

Mornin.' Just wanted to give you all a place to gather to call today's matches on another of those weeks much like the ones following the Australian Open. After the tribes gathered for a pair of rendezvous at Indian Wells and Miami, the tours have again gone their separate wayssplitting