KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. (AP) — Danielle Collins' favorite player, for as long as she can remember, has been Venus Williams. Clearly, she wasn't star-struck when facing her idol. Collins got the biggest win of her pro career Wednesday night, shocking the eighth-seeded Williams 6-2, 6-3 in the Miami Open quarterfinals.

LONDON (AP) Her game in high gear, history in the offing, Serena Williams is perfectly content to let everyone else talk about what a victory in the Wimbledon final would mean. A ''Serena Slam'' of four consecutive major titles. The third leg of a calendar-year Grand Slam. A 21st major

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. (AP) Marinko Matosevic ousted No. 2 seed John Isner 6-4, 6-4 in the first round of the Delray Beach Open on Tuesday. Marinko Matosevic had never beaten Isner in three previous meetings, all in 2014. The 29-year-old Isner, a semifinalist in Delray the past three years, struggled

PARIS (AP) Roger Federer finally cracked under the unrelenting serve of John Inser, losing 7-6 (3), 3-6, 7-6 (5) to the 13th-seeded American in the third round of the Paris Masters on Thursday. The 17-time Grand Slam champion looked like he might grind out a win, saving all six break

PRAGUE (AP) Defending champion Czech Republic clinched its fourth Fed Cup title in five years after Karolina Pliskova and Barbora Strycova won the decisive doubles Sunday against the Russian pair of Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Elena Vesnina. The Czechs rallied to a 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 victory to take the best-of-five series

PARIS (AP) It will be a fourth straight day on court for Novak Djokovic when he faces Dominic Thiem in the French Open semifinals Friday. At least he gets a change of scenery, because the top-seeded Serb plays on neighboring Court Suzanne Lenglen rather than Court Philippe Chatrier, the main

This Australian Open belonged to Roger Federer and Serena Williams, both of whom won the tournament and further cemented their statuses as the greatest players of all time. But Rafael Nadal, who lost a five-set heartbreaker to Federer in the final, came away a winner, too. No, he didn’t take

KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. (AP) — Roger Federer's season of resurgence took another thrilling turn Friday night when he won a three-tiebreaker semifinal against Nick Kyrgios at the Miami Open. Federer failed to convert two match points in the second-set tiebreaker but finished off the flashy, unpredictable Kyrgios an hour later,

LONDON (AP) — Never count out Roger Federer. Seems obvious, right? Especially after he won his record-breaking eighth Wimbledon championship and second Grand Slam title of this resurgent season. There have been times, though, when folks wondered whether he was done winning major tournaments. He was getting older. He went

A peculiarly scorching sun had its way with the Wimbledon grass over this fortnight. But the sun also sets. Here, our ongoing roundup of passing shots from SW19, a curated much-ado-about-everything – if a bit less manicured than the Wimble-lawns themselves. See No. 6. 5 With Novak Djokovic and Andy

ROME (AP) — Fabio Fognini got the Italian Open crowd fired up with a 6-4, 1-6, 6-3 win over sixth-seeded Dominic Thiem to reach the third round Wednesday. Italy's top player came out wearing a black shirt with a red lightning bolt design down his chest and he was energized

After Jack Sock crashed out of the men’s singles draw at Wimbledon in the first round in spectacular fashion, he immediately left the tournament grounds without speaking to the press. If the next place he popped up would’ve been the closest airport to head stateside, it wouldn’t have been too

On Thursday, Roger Federer took to social media to make a surprise announcement: he he underwent arthroscopic knee surgery a day earlier. “My right knee has been bothering me for a little while,” Federer wrote on Twitter. “I hoped it would go away, but after an examination, and discussion with

Just over a year ago, Kei Nishikori was the No. 7 seed at the US Open. He'd reach the third round and that would be the last time he competed until this month, marking a full year of inactivity. On Sunday, unseeded at Roland Garros, he won a rollercoaster first-round

Coco Gauff vs. Emma Navarro This is a 2024 rubber match between the two young Americans. Gauff won 6-3, 6-1 when they met on hard courts in Auckland in January; Navarro turned that around completely when they played again at Wimbledon, 6-4, 6-3. For Gauff, their third meeting will function

Coco Gauff is on the upswing in the final weeks of what's been an up-and-down 2024, and the American says one of the world's best basketball players taught her a valuable lesson that's helped keep her season's results perspective. On the heels of Gauff winning her second career WTA 1000

2024, by the Numbers - 56-14: Overall win-loss record - 18-1: Grand Slam win-loss record (AO 🏆, RG QF, W DNP, USO 🏆) - 4: Titles (Australian Open, Cincinnati, US Open, Wuhan) - 2: Runner-ups (Madrid, Rome) - 1: Year-end ranking The Story of the Season Aryna Sabalenka being the

Before each day's play in Melbourne, we'll preview three must-see matches. Amanda Anisimova vs. Emma Raducanu Call this the “I can’t believe they’re still so young” bowl. Raducanu and Anisimova are 22 and 23, respectively, but each has already had a career’s worth of highs, lows, injuries, burnout periods and

Jannik Sinner stormed into a second straight Australian Open semifinal, the defending champ making quick work of home favorite Alex de Minaur, 6-3, 6-2, 6-1. The world No. 1 recovered well from the physical challenges that threatened to hamper his progress in the fourth round, needing just one hour and

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