A star-studded field will descend on Vancouver this week for the Laver Cup, a team event that began in 2017 and will see its sixth edition take place in the beautiful west coast Canadian city this year. From which teams and players have had the most success to some of

Simona Halep and Elise Mertens will face off for the Qatar Total Open title in Doha on Saturday after battling to three-set semifinal victories at the WTA Premier-level tournament on Friday. Halep was the first to advance, rallying from 4-1 down in the third set—and fighting off three points to

MADRID (AP) — Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal both played singles and doubles on Friday, but only the Spaniard was able to lead his team into the last four at the Davis Cup Finals. Nadal guided Spain to a 2-1 comeback victory over Argentina, while Djokovic couldn’t prevent Serbia from

Below is a revised version of our story about Rafael Nadal's win over Fabio Fognini, reflecting our ongoing quest to tell the story of tennis as accurately as possible. You’ve likely heard the phrase that history is written by the winners. But there are times when the story is best

MONACO -- Rafael Nadal edged Grigor Dimitrov 6-2, 2-6, 6-4 Friday to win his 45th straight match at the Monte Carlo Masters and reach the semifinals. Top-ranked Novak Djokovic had less trouble with Jarkko Nieminen, beating the Finnish veteran 6-4, 6-3. Djokovic won despite a balky right ankle, which the

INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP) — Roger Federer defeated Rafael Nadal 6-2, 6-3 at the BNP Paribas Open on Wednesday in a fourth-round match that saw the longtime rivals meeting much earlier in a tournament than usual. Federer broke Nadal four times in advancing to the quarterfinals in 68 minutes. Although

INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP) Australian Open champion Angelique Kerber dropped out of the BNP Paribas Open on Saturday and two other top-seeded women also exited in the second round at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden. The second-seeded Kerber, from Germany, lost 7-5, 7-5 to Denisa Allertova of the Czech Republic

INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP) — Milos Raonic made sure Miomir Kecmanovic's good luck finally ran out at the BNP Paribas Open. Raonic beat the 19-year-old Serb 6-3, 6-4 on Thursday to reach the semifinals and improve to 19-4 at Indian Wells since 2014. Raonic fired 13 aces against no double

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,

WIMBLEDON, England (AP)—Novak Djokovic is tough to beat at Wimbledon, indoors or out. Playing the day's first Centre Court match Friday under the retractable roof, defending champion Djokovic rallied past Radek Stepanek 4-6, 6-2, 6-2, 6-2. When a drizzle delayed the start of the third round, tournament officials decided Djokovic's

INDIAN WELLS, CALIF.—The first highly-anticipated matchup of the 2012 BNP Paribas Open, between Roger Federer and Milos Raonic, lived up both to its billing and its expected result. Federer has been sick, and Raonic is coming off a recent title in San Jose, but the 30-year-old future Hall-of-Famer reminded us

INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP) -- Defending champion Novak Djokovic dispatched Marcos Baghdatis 6-1, 6-3 in 59 minutes to reach the third round of the BNP Paribas Open on Saturday night, improving his record to 8-0 against the Cypriot. Djokovic hasn't lost a set to Baghdatis in their last three meetings

Peter Bodo continues his year-end awards—12 in all, for 2012—with the year's Biggest Disappointments. You can see rest of his selections as well as the upcoming awards at the end of this article.

WIMBLEDON, England (AP)—Venus and Serena Williams were both eliminated in the fourth round of Wimbledon on Monday, the first time in five years that neither sister will play in the quarterfinals at the All England Club. Defending champion and four-time winner Serena was the first to go, beaten 6-3, 7-6

NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. Open tennis tournament (all times local): 12:20 a.m. Rafael Nadal was cut on the bridge of his nose when his racket bounced off the court and smacked him in the face during the fourth set of his second-round match at the

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Rafael Nadal bowed his head during changeovers and rested his elbows on his knees, the very picture of resignation. What already was a poor start to 2023, following a year marred by all manner of health issues, reached a low point at the Australian Open on

“These kind of mistakes can happen,” Rafael Nadal said after his 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (4), 6-2 loss to Novak Djokovic at Roland Garros on Friday. “But if you want to win, you can’t make these mistakes.” Nadal made an uncharacteristically high number of mistakes—55—in a match that, otherwise, was played

Angelique Kerber had a word for what happened in Rod Laver Arena on Saturday night. “It’s really crazy,” she told the audience in the stadium. “It just sounds so crazy,” she said to Chris Evert in the ESPN booth a few minutes later. “I have so many emotions, it’s like

Watching Dominic Thiem win the Barcelona Open over this past weekend, what struck me above all else was his match-playing maturity and his unmistakable comfort out on the red clay. The earnest Austrian pulled off a rare feat in the semifinals, toppling Rafael Nadal without losing his serve across two

If you watched the women’s doubles semifinals of the Olympic Games on Friday, you saw an ecstatic Sara Errani of Italy drop to the red-clay court in disbelief when she and Jasmine Pasolini won match point against Czechia’s Karolina Muchova and Linda Noskova. To borrow a familiar analogy, it looked