MELBOURNE—The draw ceremony for the first Grand Slam tournament of 2018 was held in Melbourne on Thursday night, and from compelling opening-round matches to potential blockbusters in the second week, storylines are already emerging. In no particular order, here are ten things to watch for in this year’s Australian Open

In the two-plus days since Andrey Rublev’s disqualification in Dubai during the third set of his semifinal match against Alexander Bublik, debate has continously simmered in the tennis world about the incident and its aftermath. Many players came forward with their opinions—Alejandro Davidovich Fokina and Daria Kasatkina were among those

ROME, Italy—The clay swing was once a stressful time for Naomi Osaka, enough to cause a mental health crisis on the eve of 2021 Roland Garros. That stress has seemingly melted away for the new mom, who put on a serene performance to weather a drama-filled day at the Internazionali

World No. 1 Novak Djokovic survived an opening set scare against a surging Casper Ruud in the semifinals of Rome on Sunday afternoon, fighting off double set point with the Norwegian serving for the set at 5-4, 40-15, eventually moving though to the final of the Masters 1000 event, 7-5,

At Queen’s Club in June, following a routine defeat to Felix Auger-Aliassime, fellow rising star Stefanos Tsitsipas expressed, “It's upsetting obviously that he's better than me. I have to accept that he's better than me. I might never beat him, but if I think that way, just need to wait,

Sunday’s men’s final in Rome was a battle of the recently resurrected. Alexander Zverev and Nicolas Jarry are two good clay-courters who were having strangely bad clay-court seasons coming into this tournament. Zverev was a four-time Masters 1000 champion on dirt, and a three-time semifinalist at Roland Garros; Jarry had

Roger Federer has made his fair share of history throughout his illustrious career. After finding himself down early to an inpsired Kei Nishikori in his Wimbledon quarterfinal on Wednesday, the second-seeded 37-year-old rallied past the No. 8 seed, 4-6, 6-1, 6-4, 6-4, to add two more milestones to his resume:

One-hundred and five days. That’s how long Lucas Pouille had to wait for his next Tour-level victory after reaching his first Grand Slam semifinal at the 2019 Australian Open. This past Tuesday, Pouille toppled 13th seed Borna Coric, 6-3, 7-5, to win their first-round encounter at the Mutua Madrid Open,

WATCH: Sinner won his first ATP 500 title in three grueling sets over McDonald at the Citi Open on Sunday.

Alex de Minaur needed a gimmick. He needed a weapon. He needed something extra. At 25, the Australian found himself stuck in the middle—of Grand Slam tournaments, that is. After reaching the quarterfinals at the US Open in 2020, he had never been back. Five times he scrapped his way

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NEW YORK—The greats raise their games, they say, but not many raise them as suddenly and thoroughly—and thrillingly—as Rafael Nadal did over the last two sets of his 6-3, 3-6, 6-1, 6-2 win over Marin Cilic on Monday night. By the end of the second set, Cilic had a slight

Daniil Medvedev slammed his racquet to the court and stared at his player box, as if to say: this can’t actually be happening, can it? You could forgive Medvedev for asking, and for panicking. A few minutes earlier, the 23-year-old Russian had been cruising to a final-round victory over David

You know a match was a good one when the soundtrack to its highlight reel mostly consists of the commentators blurting out things like “Oh!” and “Whoa!” and “Uh-huh!” and, when they just can’t believe it anymore, “Oh, come on!” That’s what we hear from Leif Shiras and his broadcasting

We all know it’s tough to play against a brick wall. But what about a brick wall that’s really far away? You can’t hit through it, and you can’t hit around it, either. That’s essentially what Reilly Opelka faced when he went up against Daniil Medvedev in the final of

WATCH—Highlights from Novak Djokovic's win over Borna Coric in Shanghai:

The tank, after many months of turning, has finally set up and taken aim. Can you smell the fear from the rest of the ATP? The tank I’m talking about, of course, is Juan Martin del Potro. That’s what his game reminds me of: something slow-moving, but merciless, machine-like, deadly

“These kind of matches have a little bit of everything always, no?” Rafael Nadal said after his 7-5, 1-6, 6-3 win over Novak Djokovic in the Rome final on Sunday. “You play against one of the best players and normally you gonna suffer, no?” Rafa’s right, his 57th match against

INDIAN WELLS, Calif (AP) — Leylah Fernandez outlasted ninth-seeded Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 5-7, 6-3, 6-4 to reach the third round of the BNP Paribas Open on Sunday night. Fernandez, the U.S. Open runner-up, fought off a break point in the eighth game of the third set for a 5-3 lead. Pavlyuchenkova

JOHNS CREEK, Ga. (AP)—After losing a second-set tiebreaker, Andy Roddick needed some confidence. His two opponents, Rajeev Ram and the stifling Georgia heat, were bearing down. “The first game of the third, I was down a couple of break points,” Roddick said. “If he breaks the first game of the