NEW YORK—Quiet, please. Those two words from the chair umpire’s mouth on Thursday night were fruitless when Americans Sloane Stephens and Venus Williams clashed in the first semifinal of the evening. With a home-nation champion already guaranteed, partying could be expected. Stephens would end up the queen of the first

SINGAPORE (AP) — Dominka Cibulkova put on a stunning show of unflappable tennis to upset top-ranked Angelique Kerber 6-3, 6-4 to win the WTA Finals title on Sunday. The seventh-seeded Cibulkova, making her debut at the WTA Finals this week, picked the right match to win against Kerber during the

A few hours after one sentimental favorite lost in the first round, another one won—and wrote his name into the history books. Gael Monfils defeated Thiago Seyboth Wild at Roland Garros on Monday night, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, for his 122nd career win at a Grand Slam, breaking the all-time

NEW YORK (AP) Garbine Muguruza can't imagine taking off much more than two weeks, let alone nearly two years. So much has happened to the young Spaniard in the last few months since she beat Serena Williams to win her first major title at the French Open. Yet now that

Trivia: Sebastian Korda’s trying to become the first American man to reach the quarterfinals here since 2003. Who did it then? Welcome to Week 2! Three Grand Slam champions—Rafael Nadal, Simona Halep and Dominic Thiem—are all on a packed line-up on Chatrier today as the first spots in the quarterfinals

At 6-5 in the second set of his quarterfinal against Andy Murray on Friday night, Roger Federer hit a return, charged the net, and put away a forehand volley to make the score 30-30. He punctuated the winning play, which left him two points from the match, with a little

TURIN, Italy (AP) — Defending champion Daniil Medvedev clinched his place in the ATP Finals semifinals after beating 2018 champ Alexander Zverev on Tuesday to make it two wins out of two in Turin. Late entrant Jannik Sinner could join him after storming past Hubert Hurkacz in straight sets in

May 9 1930 — Gallant Fox, ridden by Earl Sande, wins the Preakness Stakes by three-quarters of a length over Crack Brigade. Gallant Fox becomes the only Triple Crown winner to win the Preakness a week before the Kentucky Derby. 1932 — Burgoo King, ridden by Eugene James, withstands a

NEW YORK—With the exception of the Paris Masters, which gave us a maiden Masters champion (David Ferrer) and ATP finalist (Jerzy Janowicz), it’s been an extremely predictable 2012 season in men’s tennis. Every tournament of significance has been won by Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, or Andy Murray, and

NEW YORK—Two weeks before the U.S. Open, at the Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati, heralded doubles star Martina Hingis and her partner CoCo Vandeweghe received a bye and two walkovers before playing their first match of the tournament in the semifinals. Novak Djokovic’s path to the final four in

With a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Alexandr Dolgopolov, Juan Martin del Potro is the first man into the semifinals of Madrid. I thought Dolopolov might pull off the upset today, as his game seems ideally poised to take advantage of the quick, slippery blue clay. He has a super-aggressive style

On a blustery afternoon, wind gusts blew bits of copper-colored dirt into the players' eyes, prompted one fan to fashion a scarf into a surgeon's mask for protection, and swept service tosses askew like runaway balloons. Unruly conditions transformed a lunch-time battle between Grand Slam champions Venus Williams and Samantha

WATCH —Match point from Tsitsipas over Anderson in Toronto:

LONDON (AP) Novak Djokovic is developing a nasty habit of playing Grand Slam matches over two days. He thinks his latest carried-over contest won't have any effect on him in the Wimbledon quarterfinals Wednesday. The defending champion and No. 1 seed at the All England Club will be competing for

Martina Hingis and Jana Novotna battled for the 1997 Wimbledon singles title. A dominant junior on the world stage, Martina Hingis made a near-seamless transition to the professional ranks. Finishing the 1996 season ranked in the top 10 as a 16-year-old, the Swiss’ 1997 campaign got off to a flawless

Breakthroughs don’t come much bigger than Aslan Karatsev’s run at the 2021 Australian Open. The 114th-ranked Russian came through qualifying to make his Grand Slam debut, and hasn't stopped. After stunning No. 8 seed Diego Schwartzman in the third round, 6-3, 6-3, 6-3, and No. 20 seed Felix Auger-Aliassime in

Iga Swiatek vs. Jelena Ostapenko “For sure, I think, yeah, she plays well against me,” Swiatek said after her last meeting with Ostapenko, at the 2023 US Open. It wasn’t a statement that really needed to be made. A few minutes earlier, Ostapenko had run her record against Swiatek to

There are many compelling matches on the schedule in Rome on Saturday, but the one I’m focused on is Naomi Osaka’s meeting with Marie Bouzkova. Osaka has had a strange season—she looked practically unbeatable to start the year, before injuries started to pile up. But she’s healthy right now, and

NEW YORK (AP) The Latest on the U.S. Open (all times local): 12:15 p.m. Novak Djokovic's right elbow was treated by a trainer in the third set of an otherwise matter-of-fact 6-2, 6-1, 6-4 victory over Kyle Edmund on Sunday night that put the defending champion in the U.S. Open

SHANGHAI (AP) Both feeling refreshed and recharged, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray each won in straight sets Thursday to reach the quarterfinals at the Shanghai Masters. The top-ranked Djokovic was broken once in a 6-4, 6-4 victory over Vasek Pospisil, improving his record at the tournament to 26-3. Murray was