PARIS (AP)—Serena Williams thinks her best years may still be ahead of her at the age of 31. She overcame stubborn resistance from defending champion Maria Sharapova in the French Open final Saturday to clinch her 16th Grand Slam title, beating the Russian 6-4, 6-4 and extending her own winning

LONDON (AP)—As loss after loss after loss piles up for Arantxa Rus - a record-equaling 17 in a row after her quick Wimbledon exit - at least give the Dutch tennis player credit for this: She's not giving up. The 156th-ranked Rus was beaten 6-4, 6-2 Tuesday by Russia's Olga

NEW YORK—Andy Murray had Rafael Nadal right where he wanted him—well off the court and lunging for the ball, like a harried commuter trying to leap onto the 7 train before the subway doors slammed shut. Stabbing a one-handed stretch backhand from outside the doubles alley, Nadal spun, sprinted to

ISTANBUL, Turkey—Lefthanders have a played a significant role in the history of tennis: Think Connors, McEnroe, Navratilova, Seles, and Nadal. The two most accomplished lefties on the WTA these days, Petra Kvitova and Angelique Kerber, faced off for the final semifinal spot in the WTA Championships on Friday night in

If Petra Kvitova’s design, in coming from the Olympics and playing Montreal, Cincinnati, and New Haven back-to-back-to-back, was to ensure that she didn’t repeat last year’s embarrassing first-round exit from the U.S. Open, then she can count that as a mission accomplished. The world No. 5 is now in the

The odds will surely be shortening on Tomas Berdych making a deep run at Roland Garros, but nobody in their right mind would bet against Rafael Nadal there, or today in Rome, after a sublime 6-4, 7-5 victory over the Czech in which Rafa struck 34 winners for just 10

Roger Federer wasn't as dominant during today's quarterfinal as he was in his two previous matches at the Paris Masters, but then the game and gritty Juan Monaco put up much more resistance than did the over-manned Adrian Mannarino in the second round and the somewhat sketchy Richard Gasquet in

“The better one will win,” said Jelena Jankovic two days ago. In this fourth-round match between two players tied—and, too often, tied down—by the top ranking, the better one was Caroline Wozniacki. The current No. 1 and top seed beat the former No. 1 and 13th seed, 6-0, 7-5, in

ZADAR, Croatia (AP) Marin Cilic held his nerve to beat big-hitting Lucas Pouille 6-1, 7-6 (4), 2-6, 6-2 and draw Croatia level against France at 1-1 in their Davis Cup semifinal on Friday. Earlier, Richard Gasquet won the opening tie against Borna Coric in straight sets to heap the pressure

SINGAPORE—Simona Halep, who lost to Maria Sharapova in their round-robin match at the WTA Finals, says the five-time Grand Slam champion always plays her best against her. Sharapova is now 6-0 against Halep. In 2014, the Russian won their matches at Roland Garros, Cincinnati, and Madrid. At the WTA Finals,

Last week she tied seventh place, and this week it’s all hers. Iga Swiatek has passed Ashleigh Barty for seventh-most weeks at No. 1 in WTA rankings history, this being her 122nd at the top spot. Official WTA rankings began on November 3rd, 1975. MOST CAREER WEEKS AS WTA NO.

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — If Nick Kyrgios was attempting to prove his match fitness after 18 months off the tour due to wrist and knee injuries, he did a good job on Tuesday, albeit in a losing cause at the Brisbane International. In a match that lasted 2 hours, 27

Naomi Osaka fell in her first match since the Australian Open on Wednesday, losing 6-4, 6-4 to Camila Osorio in the first round of the BNP Paribas Open. Champion at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden in 2018, Osaka had been off the court since retiring in Melbourne due to a

There's nothing like Paris in the springtime, they say. As these 10 epics—the 10 most memorable French Open matches of the Open Era—show, there's also nothing quite as stirring or sensation as tennis in Paris at this time of year. Williams has had few true rivals outside of her own

WIMBLEDON, England—We don’t tend to take stock of the movers and shakers at a Grand Slam tournament until the end of its first week, not its first round. But with Rafael Nadal losing his opener, an audible needed to be called. (And while I’m bandying non-tennis terminology, I wish I

PARIS—Contrast has always been a precious commodity in tennis, and we got a good dose of it on Court 1 today when Sloane Stephens met Marina Erakovic in a third-round match. Here was Stephens in a fashionable visor, playing an opponent donning a boring baseball cap. A tight-fitting, hip-hugging, flourescent

PARIS (AP) The Latest from the French Open: 9:40 p.m. Timea Bacsinszky's concentration was not affected by Serena Williams' signs of discomfort in their French Open semifinal. Bacsinszky, a Swiss player seeded 23rd, led by 6-4 and a break. Then, she lost 10 straight games as the top-ranked American lined

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) Andy Murray shook of some rust and overcame some big returns from Mikhail Kukushkin for a 5-7, 6-3, 6-2 win at the Brisbane International Tuesday night in his first singles match since late November. The top-seeded Scot lost the first four games before he rallied to beat

VIENNA (AP)— Top-seeded Juan Martin del Potro and qualifier Grega Zemlja advanced to the final of the Erste Bank Open on Saturday. Del Potro, a runner-up last year, defeated Gilles Muller of Luxembourg 7-6 (4), 7-6 (5) to reach his fourth final of the year, while Zemlja rallied to stun

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The Latest at the Australian Open on Friday (all times local): 5:45 p.m. Rafael Nadal stayed on track for a men's-record 21st Grand Slam singles title when he beat Matteo Berrettini 6-3, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 in the Australian Open semifinals. Nadal was dominant throughout the first