How do you know when someone is playing really well? You start to get just a little sick of hearing from the TV commentators about how good they are, how brilliant they are, how perfect they are. It happened for me with Roger Federer many years ago, and it began

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP)—Andy Murray, Kim Clijsters and Vera Zvonareva found themselves in familiar territory late in a Grand Slam tournament on Wednesday. Murray beat unseeded Alexandr Dolgopolov 7-5, 6-3, 6-7 (3), 6-3 at the Australian Open to advance to the semifinals and a possible match against Rafael Nadal, the player

NEW YORK—The toughest seat on Day 1 of the 2017 US Open wasn’t for Maria Sharapova’s night match against No. 2 seed Simona Halep in Arthur Ashe Stadium. It wasn’t for Denis Shapovalov’s US Open debut against Daniil Medvedev on Court 7, though there wasn’t empty space to be found

WATCH: Harris scored the biggest win of his career earlier this summer over Rafael Nadal.

Only a select handful of players stand a chance of beating Roger Federer, the all-time Grand Slam singles champion, with the sort of stylish, versatile tennis he has come to personify. John Isner is not one of those players, and to his good fortune he knows it. Thus, he was

PARIS (AP) In ''Narcos,'' the television drama based on the life and crimes of Pablo Escobar, the now long-dead Colombian cocaine trafficker is shown making a roaring bonfire of banknotes to keep his family warm while they are on the run. This waste in a country with grinding poverty comes

WATCH: Ukraine's top athlete Elina Svitolina vows not play Russian or Belarusian athletes until tennis' governing bodies take appropriate action.

WATCH: Medvedev will take a winning streak up north to Montréal after winning the title in Los Cabos.

Championship Point: Novak Djokovic makes history in Melbourne

The last shot that Rafael Nadal hit in his 6-1, 6-0, 6-3 win over Mackenzie McDonald on Wednesday looked like it was going to sail wide. Instead, it dropped just inside the sideline for a winner. That’s what Nadal’s shots tend to do at Roland Garros. The Spaniard and the

FLASHBACK: Ahead of Wimbledon, Frances Tiafoe won his first grass-court title in Stuttgart to break the Top 10.

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The subject line of an email I received from the USTA this morning couldn’t have felt more appropriate for the first working day of 2021. “Where American Tennis Players are Competing,” it read. It turns out there are a lot of them in action this week. Twelve U.S. men are

The 2020 (RE)Open tour continued on Saturday, with Day 2 of the UTR Pro Match Series in West Palm Beach, Fla. For a primer on the event—the first broadcast in the United States since the COVID-19 shutdown to feature top-ranked, world-class athletes—click here. To watch Day 1's matches on demand,

Upon arriving in Melbourne, Veronika Kudermetova had plenty to be happy about with her start to the New Year. The 23-year-old was coming off her first WTA final at the 500-level event in Abu Dhabi, where she scored her third Top 5 win over Elina Svitolina among her five victories

Novak Djokovic’s final preparations for 2024 Roladn Garros suffered a setback when he bowed out of the Gonet Geneva Open in the semifinals, losing to Tomas Machac, 6-4, 0-6, 6-1. "I think I have no reaction right now, was just fighting for every ball," Machac said on court after reaching

On Wednesday, Dominic Thiem became the first Austrian to reach the semifinals of the US Open. It took the No. 2 seed two hours and four minutes to subdue scrappy Australian Alex de Minaur, 6-1, 6-2, 6-4, in a match that was heavily in Thiem’s control -- until it almost

Manolo Orantes has always been a ghost in my tennis-watching memories. I started to understand tennis just as the Spaniard was disappearing from the top of the sport, or at least from the finals of Grand Slams. My earliest memory of hearing his name came during the 1977 U.S. Open

Frances Tiafoe clenched his fists, slapped his heart, lifted his arms to the sky, skipped across the court, slapped five with his team in the stands and, as he said later, used “a lot of bad language.” Then he raised the roof a few more times for good measure. It

MELBOURNE—It was the groin injury heard round the country, a dramatic act of surrender on prime-time television. TOMIC BOMBS That's how the local Herald-Sun headlined its Bernard Tomic story today. To hear the paper describe it, Bernie stopping may have been more exciting than Bernie playing. “Tomic last night spectacularly