MADRID (AP) — For the third straight time this season, Rafael Nadal won't be fighting for a title on his favorite surface. Nadal's slump on clay continued on Saturday at the Madrid Open with a third consecutive semifinal elimination, adding to his worst start to the clay-court swing since 2015.

WATCH—Tennis Channel Live discusses the 2018 Laver Cup:

Venus Williams has been “back” for a while now. In 2015, she broke back into the Top 10 for the first time in five years. In 2016, she made it back to her first Wimbledon semifinal in seven years. And in January, she turned back the clock long enough to

Cilic's middle gear For the majority of his 12-year career, Marin Cilic has played in what you might call a low gear. Despite being a rangy and potentially powerful 6’6”, he has been content to kick his serve in and direct his shots from one corner to another without incurring

MATCH POINT: Koepfer secures comeback vs. Murray

By the time he reached the Monte Carlo final on Sunday, Fabio Fognini, it seemed, had already done the hard parts. The 31-year-old, who had entered 80 Masters 1000 events since 2006 without making the final of any of them, had started the week by rising from the near-dead against

This year has clearly been lacking in the on-court highlights department for Jelena Ostapenko, Venus Williams, Maria Sharapova and Eugenie Bouchard: Between the four of them, they’ve reached a total of seven quarterfinals in 2019. With Wimbledon, the site of some of their greatest successes, starting in a few days,

“We were perhaps wondering if she was looking a little tired down 1-3,” the WTA TV commentator said of Venus Williams early in the second set of her match with Garbiñe Muguruza on Thursday. “But back she comes!” Two days ago, after Venus’s last win over a much younger opponent

No. 3 seed Naomi Osaka’s nightmare first round turned out to be a sweet dream as she dispatched three-time Australian Open quarterfinalist Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, 6-1, 6-2, to lead a trio of stars into into the second round in Melbourne. Osaka delighted the Rod Laver Arena crowd as she gamely answered

On Friday at the US Open, players began punching tickets to the second week of the tournament. Here's a snapshot of a few standout quotes from those moving one step closer to the title. Angelique Kerber, who lifted the trophy four years ago at Flushing Meadows, returned to week two

WATCH—Madison Keys, after her second-round win at Roland Garros:

A few minutes after her 6-1, 6-4 fourth-round win over Ekaterina Makarova on Monday, Johanna Konta was told the name of the woman she would be facing in the Australian Open quarterfinals. “Your next opponent is...” the on-court interviewer said, before lowering his voice ominously, “...Serena Williams.” The crowd in

WATCH: Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova after outlasting Elena Rybakina in three grueling sets at Roland Garros.

WATCH: Marin Cilic defeats Andrey Rublev in five sets in the 2022 Roland Garros quarterfinals

The men’s draw at Wimbledon produced some tantalizing first rounders, several of them involving some of the biggest names in the game. Here are five first-round men’s matches to keep an eye on: [2] Daniil Medvedev (RUS) vs Jan-Lennard Struff (GER) [Medvedev leads 3-1] Medvedev may have won the pair’s

The WTA’s summer hard-court season kicked off last week in Stanford and Washington, D.C., but this week something bigger begins: The summer of Serena and the Slam. After withdrawing from Stanford, Serena Williams will make her North American debut in Toronto. Here’s a look ahead at what she’ll face, and

After two days in Singapore, each of the elite eight women at the WTA Finals has played a match. So far, I’d divide them into two camps: The ready and the not. For Flavia Pennetta, the Finals may have come a couple of months too late. She says this will

We’ve been waiting for this one. The current No. 2 and 3 players in the world, Rafael Nadal and Andy Roddick, have somehow avoided facing each other since the Davis Cup final in December 2004. Each has pretty much resided in the Top 10 since then, but the American and

Tennis has been transformed over the last five decades by TV, money, technology, equipment, fashion and politics. But through all of that, the players have remained at the heart of the game. As part of our golden anniversary celebration of the Open era, Tennis.com presents its list of 50 best

INDIAN WELLS, CALIF.—Was it just Thursday when I wrote that the one thing we knew about Andy Murray was that there would be no post-Australian Open swoon for him in 2012? Despite his 6-4, 6-2 opening-round loss to Guillermo Garcia-Lopez—the scores are as boggling as the loss itself—I don’t think