In her first match since capturing her maiden Grand Slam on clay at Roland Garros, Ashleigh Barty successfully opened her quest for the grass-court Birmingham Open. On Wednesday, the second-seeded Aussie rolled past Donna Vekic, 6-3, 6-4. "I think it was probably as smooth as it could have gone. I

Novak Djokovic (ATP No. 1, UTR No. 1) vs. Daniil Medvedev (ATP No. 14, UTR No. 5) Medvedev has posted strong results on faster courts, but this week we've learned that he can also play great tennis on clay. He lost just five games in his first two matches, then

INTERVIEW: The defending Indian Wells champion, Paula Badosa, after her quarterfinal win

Before each day's play Down Under, TENNIS.com editor Ed McGrogan will pick his three must-see matches. Janko Tipsarevic vs. Fernando Verdasco [9] (Hisense Arena, second match)—Tipsarevic leads head-to-head 2-1 Fabulous second-rounder. Tipsarevic beat Verdasco here in 2008, also in round two. The Serb proved to me last season that

Lesson No. 1 for Novak Djokovic's opponents in the first two rounds of the Australian Open has to be: Don't break the Serb's serve. Both Paolo Lorenzi and Santiago Giraldo scored early breaks against Djokovic and were then dusted. The No. 1-seed reeled off 17 straight games against Lorenzi and

The editors and writers of TENNIS.com preview Saturday's Wimbledon ladies' final—and offer their picks. (3) Agnieszka Radwanska vs. (6) Serena Williams —Head to Head: Williams leads 2-0 What Radwanska must do to winHope Serena is missing her first serve. Williams is coming off a record-setting 24-ace semifinal performance and

It’s redemption time at the Olympics. Yesterday Novak Djokovic turned around a weak Wimbledon performance with a strong win; today it was Kim Clijsters’ turn to do the same. Clijsters, who is retiring after this summer, made her final exit from Wimbledon in feeble fashion, losing 1 and 1 to

Across the last two weeks of December, Baseline will dish out awards for the greatest acts of 2018.

​The precocious, wildly quotable Naomi Osaka upended the WTA field in Indian Wells this past week, and has already enjoyed the upset of a lifetime over Serena Williams in Miami. Despite her penchant for good-natured truth-telling, and for pausing with refreshing awkwardness at times as she talks, ​Osaka was hardly

The past week was a slowdown from the excitement of the US Open. Only a few WTA events were held while no ATP events were played. On top of that, no woman player in the Top 25 made ranking moves as many of them are taking time to recover from

MONTREAL, Canada—Did this match feel familiar? To Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal fans, it should have. It was in Canada three years ago that Federer, fresh off his first Wimbledon final defeat, was stunned by Gilles Simon in the opening round of the Rogers Cup. Nadal fans might recall a

Lesson No. 1 for Novak Djokovic's opponents in the first two rounds of the Australian Open has to be: Don't break the Serb's serve. Both Paolo Lorenzi and Santiago Giraldo scored early breaks against Djokovic and were then dusted. The No. 1-seed reeled off 17 straight games against Lorenzi and

DOHA (AP) -- Two-time champion Victoria Azarenka beat Angelique Kerber 6-0, 6-3 in the first round of the Qatar Total Open on Monday. The Belarusian, who won in 2012 and 2013, was forced to withdraw last year due to a foot inflammation. Returning to Doha as a wild card entrant,

You may have seen Serena Williams dust off Svetlana Kuznetsova on Friday at the Italian Open in Rome. It was her most decisive win in 12 matches against her sometimes-rival, who has beaten her twice at major events and once this year. The victory came by a 6-0, 6-2 score.

Rafael Nadal has pulled out of Wimbledon with a left wrist injury, he announced on social media on Thursday. "I'm sad to announce that after talking to my doctors, and receiving the results of my last medical revision, I won't be able to play at Wimbledon this year," Nadal wrote

Su-Wei Hsieh and Amanda Anisimova met in a surprise matchup at the Japan Women’s Open. For much of the 2010s, Su-Wei Hsieh had carved out a place among the best in women’s doubles, reaching the top of the rankings in that discipline in 2014. In 2018, though, she began to

Jessica Pegula will look to win the National Bank Open for the second year in a row on Monday, Aug. 12. Last year, Pegula ended up winning the event in Montreal. This year, the 30-year-old will have to do so in Toronto. However, despite the change in venue, Pegula has

PARIS (AP) A day after the tournament began, the French Open is really about to get started. The opening day at Roland Garros featured 32 matches on eight courts, with three seeded players already falling by the wayside. But on Monday interest is expected to really pick up with Novak

WATCH: Ons Jabeur beat Emma Raducanu in the women's exhibition at the Mubadala World Tennis Championship.

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Emma Navarro beat Katerina Siniakova 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 Thursday night, her 14th win of the year, to advance to the quarterfinals of the Cymbiotika San Diego Open. It marked the No. 3 seed's second win over the Czech in a matter of weeks, having also prevailed