Andy Murray complains about the ATP ranking system and seems to support Rafael Nadal’s belief that the tour should use a two-year ranking to protect standout players who become injured. Players who are injured for six months or more can use a protected ranking to enter tournaments, but that does

Rafael Nadal has once again criticized the stricter version of the time-violation rule that was implemented last year. Nadal was twice called for a time violation during his third-round match in Monte Carlo against Teimuraz Gabashvili, and shook his finger at umpire Pascal Maria after being called when serving at

TORONTO (AP) After waiting out a lengthy rain delay, Germany's Sabine Lisicki defeated Venus Williams 6-0, 6-3 Monday night in their first-round match at the Rogers Cup. ''I really had an off day,'' Williams said. ''It was definitely a long wait and tough to not warm up. My opponent and

PARIS (AP) As the first 17-year-old American man in the French Open since Michael Chang won the 1989 title, Frances Tiafoe learned a valuable lesson from a straight-set loss in his Grand Slam debut. ''I need,'' Tiafoe said with a chuckle, ''to get a lot better.'' Tiafoe, from College Park,

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

NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) — Steve Johnson continued his long road back and success this year by capturing the Hall of Fame Open on Sunday. The 28-year-old American defeated Ramkumar Ramanathan, of India, 7-5, 3-6, 6-2, on Newport's grass court for his fourth career ATP title and second this season. When

Taylor Townsend has had a stellar doubles career, collecting seven tour-level titles—including her first Grand Slam title at Wimbledon just a few weeks ago—and breaking into the Top 10 last year. But she’s a very dangerous singles player as well, and on Friday afternoon she made a major breakthrough in

World No. 1 Jannik Sinner has defeated Daniil Medvedev, 6-2, 1-6, 6-1, 6-4, to not only reach the semifinals of the US Open for the first time in his career, but to achieve a major first. Having already been to at least the semifinals of the Australian Open, Roland Garros

Where to Watch 🖥️📱 Click here for live coverage on TennisChannel.com (United States only; start time not before 1:00 p.m. ET on March 24) The winner of this match will play either No. 9 seed Zheng Qinwen or American Ashlyn Krueger in the quarterfinals. 👉 Click here for the complete

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP)—Jurgen Melzer, playing with a broken big toe on his right foot, upset top-seeded John Isner 6-3, 7-6 (6) on Friday in the quarterfinals of the Regions Morgan Keegan Championships. The Austrian who broke his toe Feb. 16 in his hotel room has won three straight matches at

NEW YORK (AP)—Venus Williams struggled with her serve. She kept tugging at her dress. Every bit as big a nuisance was her opponent, Shahar Peer. On a Sunday afternoon in which No. 2 Kim Clijsters cruised to her victory at the U.S. Open, third-seeded Williams never looked quite comfortable in

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On Day 4 at Roland Garros, Steve Tignor meandered through the schedule and wrote about the matches and moments that caught his eye. When the schedule was made for Wednesday at Roland Garros, some of us pointed to the closing contest in Court Suzanne Lenglen, between Benoit Paire and Pierre-Hugues

In 2009, Rafael Nadal won his first hard-court major at the Australian Open. He sealed it with a five-set win over Roger Federer, the career rival he also defeated in the Roland Garros and Wimbledon finals the previous year. The capstone of this sequence of events demanded that we ask

by Pete Bodo LONDON—Petra Kvitova was about to toss the ball to serve at 3-1, 40-love in the fifth game of the first set today at Wimbledon when an alarm went off in Centre Court, causing her to pull up momentarily. Both the source of and reason for the siren

PARIS(AP) American qualifier Michael Yani's French Open debut lasted one match. It felt like about two or three. Yani lost to Lukas Lacko of Slovakia 4-6, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (4), 6-7 (5), 12-10 in a marathon that began Sunday and finished Monday, covering 4 hours, 56 minutes of playing time.

There’s well-documented tension between world No. 40 Nick Kyrgios and world No. 4 Rafael Nadal. The Spaniard has made it clear, at times, that he doesn’t believe the Australian has respect for himself, the fans or the sport. Kyrgios, meanwhile, has noted that he and Nadal are extremely different as

WATCH: Alcaraz and Ruud faced off for a rematch of their Miami Open final, where Alcaraz triumphed in straight sets.

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World No. 91 Danka Kovinic of Montenegro cruised past No.28-ranked Ons Jabeur in Charleston on Saturday, 6-3, 6-2, to move through to the biggest final of her career at the WTA 500 event. She had won only three games the only other time they played, at an ITF event in