BUENOS AIRES, Argentina(AP) Former French Open champions Carlos Moya and Gaston Gaudio failed to survive the first round of the Copa Telmex on Tuesday. The fourth-seeded Moya, the Buenos Aires champion in 2003 and 2006, lost to 108th-ranked Argentine qualifier Maximo Gonzalez 6-4, 6-4. Gonzalez led 4-0 in the first

WASHINGTON (AP) — A prisoner suspected of stabbing Larry Nassar at a federal penitentiary in Florida said the disgraced former sports doctor provoked the attack by making a lewd comment while they were watching a Wimbledon tennis match on TV, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.

Jelena Jankovic has hired Henner Nehles, a former UNLV standout player from Germany, as her new coach, TENNIS.com has learned. Former No. 1 Jankovic has also severed ties with her agency, IMG, and is now being managed by the Las Vegas-based Linda Long, who once was an executive with Puma

Tennis players are some of the most stylish sports personas in the world and in Bejinig, that was still the truth. Rafael Nadal, Alexander Zverev, and Juan Martin Del Potro modeled some local fashion, but it was Grigor Dimitrov who stole the show.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Elena Rybakina, the 2022 Wimbledon champion, said Saturday she disagrees with the WTA Tour’s decision to provisionally suspend her longtime coach, Stefano Vukov, and reiterated that she never made a complaint about him. “I always said that he never mistreated me,” Rybakina said at a news

David Ferrer has announced he has decided to stop coaching Alexander Zverev, saying the "moment was not right" to extend the partnership. The pair began working together a little before the US Open, where Zverev reached his first Grand Slam final. But Ferrer said he decided not to renew their

Aryna Sabalenka is off to a winning start this season, having not lost since Roland Garros. The Belarusian made it past a tight first set to take out Polona Hercog, 7-6 (5), 6-2, in her Abu Dhabi opener. This year, there is a noticeable change in her coaching box. Her

Alexander Zverev beat Stan Wawrinka, 6-3, 7-6 (1), in the quarterfinals of the Paris Masters in Bercy on Friday. It was his 11th straight victory with new coach David Ferrer, and it set him up for a high-profile semifinal against Rafael Nadal on Saturday. Left unsaid in that good on-court

FLASHBACK: Highlights from Ferro's 2021 triumph in Palermo when the WTA Tour reopened

WATCH: Wawrinka scored his 60th career Top 10 win over Casper Ruud in Basel this week.

MOSCOW (AP) Former top-ranked player Dinara Safina has retired from tennis, according to her brother Marat Safin. Safin told Russian sports agency R-Sport on Friday that the 25-year-old Safina considers her decision ``as a next step in her life.'' In May, Safina took an indefinite break from tennis in hopes

Tito Vazquez, whose contract as Argentine Davis Cup captain was not renewed after his team’s final-round loss to Spain, takes issue with one of his players, David Nalbandian, whom he has had problems with in the past. "I didn’t see Nalbandian as a positive leader, but I was willing to

COLUMBIA, S.C.(AP) Chuck Kriese has sat in the Wimbledon coach's box, battled swarms of mosquitoes in his home and carefully sidestepped pythons in his first year of molding Southeast Asian tennis in Thailand. Through it all the former longtime Clemson tennis coach has managed to keep his sense of purpose,

Dominika Cibulkova is being coached by Zelkjo Krajan, reports tennisreporters.net. Until last month, Krajan was coaching Dinara Safina.

MOSCOW (AP) Marat Safin says former top-ranked tennis player Dinara Safina, his younger sister, has retired from tennis. Safin told the Russian sports agency R-Sport that the 25-year-old Safina considers her decision ``as a next step in her life.'' Safin is a two-time Grand Slam tournament winner now retired. Safina

PATTAYA, Thailand (AP)—Former tennis star Paradorn Srichaphan beginning a new career as a motorcycle racer. The 31-year-old Thai was once ranked No. 9 and was Asia's top player. He retired this year after a chronic wrist injury kept him off the tour for three years. He plans to remain involved

When James Blake retired from tennis in 2013, he did what thousands of other ex-Ivy Leaguers before him have done: he thought about going into banking. Blake was 33 instead of 23, and his two years at Harvard were long behind him. Unlike most Wall Street wannabes, though, he had

PERTH, Australia (AP) — Former tennis great and now Christian pastor Margaret Court says she will stop using Qantas "where possible" in protest over the Australian airline's promotion of same-sex marriage. "I am disappointed that Qantas has become an active promoter for same-sex marriage," Perth resident Court said in the

's-HERTOGENBOSCH, Netherlands (AP) -- Benjamin Becker of Germany reached his first ATP semifinals in almost 2 1/2 years when he beat the equally desperate Vasek Pospisil of Canada 6-7 (3), 7-6 (5), 6-4 at the rainy Topshelf Open on Thursday. Becker, who won his late ATP title here in 2009,

Roger Federer finds himself the subject of much speculation following his withdrawal from the final of the ATP World Tour Finals with a back injury. Federer had played a long three-setter with Swiss compatriot Stan Wawrinka the night before, and has the Davis Cup final to play this week alongside