BEIJING (AP) — Former top-ranked players Venus Williams and Simona Halep both lost in the second round of the China Open on Monday. Williams lost 3-6, 6-3, 7-5 to ninth-seeded Belinda Bencic of Switzerland, who saved two match points in the final set to outlast the seven-time Grand Slam champion

Over the past few years, Jack Sock lost some heartbreakers against Milos Raonic, but he finally snapped his losing streak against the Canadian, topping him in a third-set tiebreaker in Shanghai in the third round (after saving two match points). That win also marked a milestone for Sock as he

Court Report: Federer and Djokovic advance, with a potential quarterfinal meeting in sight

LONDON (AP) The last Wimbledon singles contest of 2002 champion Lleyton Hewitt's career was a back-and-forth, 4-hour tussle in which he saved three match points before finally succumbing 11-9 in the fifth set. He might have lost. He did not go gently. Felt fitting. Even to Hewitt himself. ''Pretty much

It has taken him eight trips to the semifinals, but finally, Denis Shapovalov has earned a place in an ATP final. The 20-year-old beat qualifier Yuichi Sugita in Stockholm on Saturday, 7-5, 6-2. He lost in the semifinals seven times before reaching the milestone, including three times this year (Chengdu,

Christina McHale, who lost to Mirjana Lucic-Baroni, 6-3, 6-0, in the first round of Brisbane International, is experiencing shoulder discomfort. The 22-year-old reached a career-high No. 24 ranking in 2012, but experienced a number of injuries and has struggled over the past year. She is currently ranked No. 52. "It

The last spots in the second week are up for grabs today. Five major champions are among the players in action: one man (Novak Djokovic) and four women (Sofia Kenin, Petra Kvitova, Garbine Muguruza and Jelena Ostapenko). Djokovic has only lost 10 games in his first two rounds. It’s the

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Australian tennis player Bernard Tomic was fined his full prize money of 45,000 pounds ($56,500) at Wimbledon on Thursday for not meeting "the required professional standards" in his first-round loss. Tomic, a quarterfinalist in 2011, lost to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-2, 6-1, 6-4 on Tuesday — a

INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP) — Kim Clijsters lost in three sets in her first-round match Thursday at the BNP Paribas Open. She was beaten 6-1, 2-6, 6-2 by Katerina Siniakova, a three-time major doubles champion from Czech Republic. Siniakova teamed with countrywoman Barbora Krejcikova to win a gold medal in

Sam Querrey admits that he lost some motivation in 2013, partly because he and his fiancée, Emily McPherson, broke up during the summer. "Mentally I don't think I was all there,” he told USA Today about his second-round loss to Adrian Mannarino at the U.S. Open. "I'm no longer engaged.

METZ, France -- Second-seeded Gilles Simon beat two-time defending champion Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-4, 6-3 on Sunday to win the all-French Open de Moselle final for his first title of the year. Simon had not faced a single break point in the previous two matches but lost his serve once in

The Bulgarian lost control in a 6-7 (5), 7-6 (4), 6-0 loss, which ended with a game penalty. (AP Photo) In the Istanbul final on Sunday things started off pretty well for Grigor Dimitrov. Playing against No. 87-ranked Diego Schwartzman, Dimitrov went up a set and 5-2, appearing well on

Belgian Davis Cup captain Johan Van Herck says David Goffin’s failure to serve out the match in his five-set defeat to Serbia’s Victor Troicki essentially killed his country's chances of winning. Goffin lost a two-set lead in the opening match of the tie, which Serbia went on to sweep, 3-0.

ANTWERP, Belgium (AP) -- Top-seeded Eugenie Bouchard of Canada and second-seeded Angelique Kerber of Germany lost in the second round of the Diamond Games on Thursday. Bouchard double-faulted nine times in a 4-6, 6-1, 6-2 defeat to Germany's Mona Barthel, while qualifier Francesca Schiavone - a former French Open champion

NEW YORK—Rafael Nadal says he is still making progress despite his five-set defeat at the U.S. Open. Nadal, who had never previously lost a match from two sets up at a major, fell to Fabio Fognini after leading their third-rounder by two sets and break. It was his third defeat

BERLIN (AP) — Americans Jessica Pegula and Madison Keys lost to Victoria Azarenka and Liudmila Samsonova in the quarterfinals of the German Open on Friday. Pegula, who beat the fourth-seeded Karolína Plíšková for the fourth time this year on Thursday, was unable to follow up against the seventh-seeded Azarenka, losing

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — Three-time major champion Stan Wawrinka's rebuilt knee couldn't quite carry him to the title in Rotterdam on Sunday. Wawrinka lost his first final since his comeback a year ago from left knee surgeries, succumbing 6-3, 1-6, 6-2 to Gael Monfils of France at the ABN AMRO

Gilles Cervara was introduced to a brand-new world in his teenage years. At age 15, he saw a friend playing tennis and was immediately hooked, ready to dive into the game wholeheartedly. Dedicated but late to the party, Cervara was unable to make up for lost time as a competitive

PARIS (AP) — Two-time Grand Slam champion Simona Halep said she had a panic attack while leading her second-round match that she eventually lost at the French Open on Thursday. The 2018 Roland Garros winner said she "lost it" and couldn't regain focus while playing 19-year-old Qinwen Zheng, who won