WATCH: Swiatek meets the press after reaching her second major final at Roland Garros.

For a while there, it seemed as if Bianca Andreescu was never going to lose again. The Toronto and US Open champion carried a double-digit winning streak into Beijing last week, but had her run stopped in the quarterfinals by Naomi Osaka, last year’s US Open winner who’s currently in

MONACO (AP) — Defending champion Rafael Nadal and top-ranked Novak Djokovic eased into the Monte Carlo Masters quarterfinals on Thursday, remaining on course to meet in the final of the clay-court tournament they've long dominated. The two rivals, who share 32 Grand Slam titles, could meet for a 54th time.

MELBOURNE—From the start, many signs pointed to a poor outcome for Kei Nishikori in his quarterfinal meeting with Novak Djokovic. As the two headed into this match, Nishikori had put in nearly 14 hours of court time, compared to just under 10 for Djokovic. Then came the matchup factor. These

Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez: It sounds a little like the Spanish equivalent of John James Smith Jones. You don't differentiate your name by originality, but by sheer volume. But if Martinez Sanchez isn’t an entirely original player, she is unique by today’s standards. The 27-year-old Barcelona resident does a lot

I’m guessing I’ve used this metaphor before—after 1,159 posts, it’s hard to remember for sure—but we’ve reached another post-crescendo point in the tennis season. The noisy summit of Flushing Meadows was followed by a moment of tour silence for Davis Cup. Now the first few scattered notes of the next

INDIAN WELLS, CALIF.—The second half of the day, with less sun. 3:15 Andrey Golubev has, however briefly, found a pattern that works against Novak Djokovic. Golubev is down a break, 2-4 in the first. Looser because he’s behind, he cracks a forehand crosscourt. Djokovic, looser because he’s ahead, cracks his

For this week’s trip to the YouTube archive, I’m revisiting a match that the winner, Roger Federer, has mentioned many times over the years. That’s because the loser that day, an 18-year-old named Andy Murray, made a strong impression on him, stronger than the 6-3, 7-5 score might have led

The fans watching through their Zoom apps at home were roaring for Andy Murray in Arthur Ashe Stadium on Tuesday. But the former No. 1 hardly seemed to notice as their faces flashed on the big screens next to him at courtside. Murray was too busy doing what he usually

INDIAN WELLS, CALIF.—Q: “Do you enjoy playing a player like him?” A: “No.” This terse answer was issued by Rafael Nadal during his press conference on Wednesday. He'd just been asked about his next opponent, Ivo Karlovic. His response, as you can see, was pretty definitive. Rafa doesn’t like playing

PARIS—Toni Nadal told his nephew Rafa that the key to being successful at tennis was enduring more than your opponent—getting one more ball, running one more meter, hitting one more winner, staying upright for one more minute. As a pro, Rafa would take that idea and apply his own, more

After a month of togetherness—or coexistence, however you want to put it—the men and women go their separate ways this week. While the guys get ready for Davis Cup—yes, Novak Djokovic has found his way to Boise, Idaho—the women are in Monterrey, Mexico, and Charleston, S.C. It’s a special week

Ever since its inception in 2000, the stretch of early-season clay-court ATP tournaments through Latin America colloquially known as the “Golden Swing” has had at least one current or former member of the world’s Top 10 emerge triumphant at an event. That’s far from the case in 2019. Wild cards,

As we saw Tuesday, the first week of the French Open is all about upsets. With that in mind, we're counting down the five most stunning Roland Garros results from Monday, May 28 through Friday, June 1. Some occured early in the tournament, some late, but all were surprises. No.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP)—Three-time defending champion Caroline Wozniacki kept her unbeaten streak at Yale alive, topping Francesca Schiavone 7-6 (2) 6-3 in the semifinals of the New Haven Open, the final WTA tuneup before next week’s U.S. Open. Wozniacki, who is now 16-0 during her four years at the tournament,

Each day during the French Open, we'll preview—and predict the winner of—three of the most compelling women's matches. (1) Victoria Azarenka vs. (15) Dominika Cibulkova —Head to Head: Wozniacki leads 7-1 The world No. 1 rallied from a 0-4 second-set hole, winning 12 of the final 14 games in a

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP)—U.S. Open top seed Caroline Wozniacki rallied from a break down in the third set to beat Elena Dementieva 1-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5) on Friday night, earning her third consecutive trip to the finals of the Pilot Pen tennis tournament. The tournament’s two-time defending champion is 12-0

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TORONTO (AP)—In a season full of talk about the parity in women’s tennis, unheralded Galina Voskoboeva became the latest to step up and prove that point. The 26-year-old from Kazakhstan, ranked just 135th in the world, beat fifth-seeded Maria Sharapova 6-3, 7-5 on Thursday at the Rogers Cup as two

It didn’t take long for the Australian Open—the so-called Happy Slam—to go from carnival to carnage. Ana Ivanovic, the No. 5 seed in the women’s draw, was eliminated before most players had even started their tournament. And pretty much every day after that, someone else of significance was inspiring an