NEW YORK (AP) -- David Ferrer needed a mid-match pedicure of sorts. He seemed bothered when his opponent got a mid-game medical timeout. He was down a break in the fifth set. In the end, though, the indefatigable Spaniard was barely better, as he usually is when matches go the

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — One point away from her first Grand Slam title, Aryna Sabalenka faulted. And then she faulted again. She grimaced. She yelled and turned her back to the court. She wiggled her shoulders and exhaled. Clearly, this business of winning the Australian Open was not bound to

At the start of the this year’s US Open, just three men in the draw knew what it took to win seven matches and attain Grand Slam glory: Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray and Marin Cilic. With fellow former champions Rafael Nadal and Stan Wawrinka opting not to make the trip

WATCH—Roger Federer on Laver Cup success and US Open shortcomings: The third and final day of the Laver Cup is upon us, and while it was always going to matter—it is impossible to amass the 13 points needed to clinch the trophy over the first two days—it's shaping up to

Pic by Pete Bodo It wasn't so much that Novak Djokovic lost to Andy Murray at the Western and Southern Open in Cincinnati; it was the way he lost the final. There he was, listless and fatigued right from the get-go, struggling with his footwork and strokes, committing tactical errors—none

BIRMINGHAM, England—It’s a classic confrontation of youth and experience in the AEGON Classic final, as 16-year-old Donna Vekic takes on 30-year-old Daniela Hantuchova. The photos chosen to illustrate today’s programme encapsulate the projected narrative; while both players are in the same posture, the de rigeur fist-pump-to-box, Vekic’s sometimes severe face

INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP) Novak Djokovic and Victoria Azarenka rolled to easy victories in the BNP Paribas Open on Sunday, with the top-ranked Serb collecting his record fifth title and Azarenka winning for the second time to get back into the world's top 10. Djokovic beat Milos Raonic 6-2, 6-0

NEW YORK (AP) Venus Williams is back in a Grand Slam semifinal. The year will end without an American man being able to make the same claim. Stanislas Wawrinka beat Sam Querrey in five sets Tuesday to put two Swiss men in a major quarterfinal for the first time in

SYDNEY (AP) — Former No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki's streak of not advancing past the quarterfinals in her past seven Sydney Internationals was extended in stifling heat on Wednesday. In temperatures reaching 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) for much of the match, Wozniacki lost 7-5, 6-7 (6), 6-4 to Barbora

WASHINGTON (AP)—Third-seeded Fernando Verdasco fended off two match points and narrowly avoided a second-round upset at the Legg Mason Classic on Tuesday, while Mardy Fish extended the longest winning streak of his career to 11 matches. Second-seeded Andy Roddick had little trouble in his opening match, beating Serbian qualifier Grega

SYDNEY (AP)—Juan Martin del Potro’s comeback from injury briefly stalled with his 6-2, 7-5 loss to Germany’s Florian Mayer in the second round of the Sydney International on Wednesday. After beating Feliciano Lopez in his comeback match in the first round Monday, the 2009 U.S. Open champion lost to the

Dedicated Ana Ivanovic fans are by necessity an anxious lot, because their heroine personifies the essentially meek and amenable young lady trapped in the body of a competitive athlete. The contrast is especially sharp when the pleasant girl from Serbia is thrown into the ring with someone as stone-cold aggressive

LILLE, France (AP) — France and Serbia are level at 1-1 in their Davis Cup semifinal after Jo-Wilfried Tsonga dispatched 22-year-old debutant Laslo Djere in straight sets on Friday following Lucas Pouille's shock defeat in the opening singles match. Belgium and Australia are also tied 1-1 after the opening rubbers

When we talk about matches featuring John Isner, we typically talk about how difficult he makes life for his opponents. They don’t get many chances to break, or even to get ahead in his service games, so they can’t afford to waste them. But this equation also works in reverse:

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) A medical emergency overshadowed matches on adjoining courts at the Australian Open when Nigel Sears, who is Ana Ivanovic's coach and Andy Murray's father-in-law, was rushed to a hospital while both of their third-round matches were in progress. Four-time finalist Murray beat No. 32 Joao Sousa 6-2,

NEW YORK—Fresh in the moment, staggered and delighted upon having reached the US Open final the first time she’d played the tournament, Bianca Andreescu could likely relate to these words written by her fellow Canadian native, author Saul Bellow: “Only the present is real—the here-and-now. Seize the day.” This was

“Anything can happen”: We hear those words a lot in sports, but they haven’t come true very often in tennis in recent years. This season, in which the Top 4 men split the four majors and the Top 3 women did the same, was the least chaotic in recent memory.

Why, after 77 years, would it be easy? Future generations of British sports fans who look back at clips of the 2013 men’s final at Wimbledon will see a cloudless 80-degree day, a Royal Box with a beaming prime minister in the front row, a straight-set scoreline and that rarest

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — It was difficult for Ash Barty to imagine that a trip to her first Wimbledon final was just around the corner when she stopped playing at last month's French Open with a hip injury. Or even when she was two points from being pushed to a

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