Former No. 1 Juan Carlos Ferrero will coach fellow Spaniard Nicolas Almagro on a part-time basis next season. Ferrero, who retired after losing to Almagro in Valencia in late October, reportedly told the media during the Davis Cup final that he does not want to travel full-time, but that he

SHENZHEN, China (AP) — Former world No. 1 and two-time Grand Slam champion Garbine Muguruza had a 6-1, 7-6 (2) win over American Shelby Rogers to advance to the quarterfinals of Shenzhen Open on Wednesday. Muguruza will play Zarina Diyas in the quarterfinals after the Kazakhstan player defeated Anna Blinkova

Kim Clijsters has reached the No. 1 ranking for the fourth time with a 6-3, 6-0 wipeout of Jelena Dokic in the quarterfinals of the Paris Indoors. The reigning U.S. and Australian Open champion passed the Slam-less Caroline Wozniacki for the top spot. Clijsters has been No. 1 three times

NEW YORK (AP) — Two-time champion Venus Williams will be back at the U.S. Open after being given a wild card Wednesday into the Grand Slam tournament. The 41-year-old Williams has won seven major titles, including victories at Flushing Meadows in 2000 and 2001. But with her current WTA ranking

Darren Cahill has ruled out becoming Andy Murray's full-time coach, but has left open the possibility of working with Murray on a partial basis. "...it depends what he wants, if he's looking to add a consultant or a part-time coach or a full-time coach," Cahill said on ESPN, while doing

TURIN, Italy (AP) — Novak Djokovic beat Stefanos Tsitsipas for the ninth straight time by 6-4, 7-6 (4) in the players' opening match at the ATP Finals on Monday. Djokovic has beaten Tsitsipas in his third straight tournament following wins in Astana, Kazakhstan and at the Paris Masters. "All the

[Another of the TennisWorld Literary All-Stars has stepped up to write a guest post. Man, this is becoming TW's very own version of a Prose Slam! Here are some thoughts on time travel and Robby Ginepri from world renowned host and author Andrew Friedman] Though I hadn’t seen him play

To the surprise of no one, Roger Federer is one of the cover stars for TIME Magazine's TIME 100: The Most Influential People issue. Federer's friend and Match for Africa teammate, Bill Gates, pens a short essay about the Swiss.

STATELINE, Nev. (AP) — Three-time champion Mark Mulder made a 30-foot eagle putt on the par-5 16th hole Saturday and scored 25 points to take a three-point lead in the American Century Championship. Mulder, the former major league pitcher who won the event three straight times from 2015-17, received six

Mornin'. It was a final few would have predicted, what with Rafael Nadal and Andy Roddick (a four-time champion at the venue) in the mix, but the title at Queens Club will be decided between Andy Murray and Jo-Wifried Tsonga. What, are we seeing stirrings of champion fever in Tsonga

This weekend at the Cincinnati Open, four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka will play a qualifying match at a WTA tournament for the first time in six years. The former world No. 1, in the midst of a comeback season after her 2023 maternity leave, will play Anna Blinkova on

Is your body ready for the rigors of a tournament? Our three-week survival guide will have you primed to compete. Summer is tournament time. So whether it’s your club’s memberguest or the USTA regionals, you’re going to be playing more tennis than you’re used to—hopefully, anyway—in a short amount of

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Nobody has ever been better at this end of the Australian Open than Novak Djokovic, the 10-time champion. Every time he's won a quarterfinal at Melbourne Park—as he did against Taylor Fritz on Tuesday—he's gone on to win the title. The odds are usually stacked against

LONDON—This year marks the 125th anniversary of the grass-court tournament at Queen’s Club. Its name has changed several times, but its reputation for predicting Wimbledon champions hasn’t. In the race to make the transition from clay to grass in limited time, this year’s event has—as per tradition—a strong field, bracketed

Justine Henin on how she spent her time off the circuit: "I was spending a few hours a day focused on [rehabbing] my elbow. Then I've been working quite a lot in my academies. I was in China before coming here. In Belgium, I did spend a lot of time

PARIS (AP) Nine-time French Open champion Rafael Nadal pulled out of the Grand Slam tournament on Friday, citing an injury to his left wrist. ''A very tough moment, because you ... wait for these two weeks for the whole year,'' said a glum-looking Nadal, who announced his withdrawal the day

AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — Unseeded Ugo Humbert will play fifth-seeded Benoit Paire in an all-French final of the ASB Classic. Humbert beat fourth seed and two-time champion John Isner, 7-6 (5), 6-4, on Friday to reach his first career final. Paire later beat sixth-seeded Hubert Hurkacz of Poland, 6-4,

A player never forgets their first tour title. You can say that again for Nuno Borges, who at 27, has joined the club as an ATP champion after getting the better of a legendary competitor. On Sunday, Borges denied Rafael Nadal’s Bastad title bid to write his own magical ending

PARIS—No matter how many times this American comes here, the city remains something of an alternate universe. Everything is the same in the big picture, but the little things all seem to be turned on their heads. For instance, it’s a whoosh of tires, rather than a Brooklyn-style screech of