DELRAY BEACH, Fla. (AP)—Edouard Roger-Vasselin upset top-seeded John Isner after Ernests Gulbis knocked out second-seeded Tommy Haas on Saturday to set up an unlikely final in the Delray Beach International Championships. Roger-Vasselin beat Isner 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 in the late semifinal, fending off 21 aces. Isner but could never find

MASON, Ohio (AP) -- Novak Djokovic had a ragged start in the one tournament that has always eluded him. The top-ranked player beat Gilles Simon 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 in his opening match at the Western & Southern Open on Tuesday night. It's the only Masters series event he has never

PARIS (AP) — Rafael Nadal remains on track for an elusive Paris Masters title after beating Pablo Cuevas 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-3 to reach the quarterfinals on Thursday. He has not reached the final since losing to David Nalbandian in his first appearance 10 years ago. Nadal improved to 4-1

LONDON— There is no higher honor for a tennis player than winning Wimbledon. It is the sport’s preeminent tournament, the Kentucky Derby of our game, and a grass-court festival played out across an incomparable fortnight when observers from every spectrum of life seem to be paying attention. “The Championships” are

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) Kim Clijsters began the defense of her Australian Open title with a 7-5, 6-1 win over Portuguese qualifier Maria Joao Koehler on Monday, showing no signs of the hip problem that forced her to withdraw from a tuneup event. Clijsters broke Koehler's serve at love in the

KEY BISCAYNE, Fla.(AP) The hour was past midnight when Roger Federer found himself one big serve from salvaging a sloppy victory. He couldn't summon the shot he needed. ``It was almost impossible to get it past the other guy with the serve,'' Federer said. Slow conditions were one problem for

MASON, Ohio (AP) — Rafael Nadal and Karolina Pliskova — the No. 1 seeds in the Western & Southern Open — advanced with straight-set wins Wednesday, while the rest of their brackets suffered more top losses. Nadal sat out an hour-long rain delay and beat Richard Gasquet 6-3, 6-4 on

“It’s just so, so sad,” ESPN’s Cliff Drysdale said after watching Borna Coric and Stefanos Tsitsipas walk toward the net to tap racquets in a strangely silent Louis Armstrong Stadium a little after 1:00 in the morning on Saturday. It’s safe to say that this was the first time that

KEY BISCAYNE, Florida (AP)—With her dubious No. 1 ranking secure for at least three more weeks, Caroline Wozniacki’s taking a break. Her enforced vacation began Monday when she lost in the fourth round at the Sony Ericsson Open to Andrea Petkovic of Germany, 7-5, 3-6, 6-3. “I’m just going to

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP)—Li Na returned to the tournament that launched her onto the global stage last year, breezing to a 6-3, 6-1 win over Ksenia Pervak of Kazakhstan on Monday in the first round of the Australian Open. Li was a trailblazer for China last year, reaching a Grand Slam

With pleasing symmetry, the Nitto ATP Finals picked up where it left off. A year ago in London, Stefanos Tsitsipas won the title when he beat Dominic Thiem in a gem of a final, 6-7 (6), 6-2, 7-6 (4). Today, in the tournament’s first singles match, Thiem turned the tables.

LONDON -- Marion Bartoli of France eliminated the last U.S. player at Wimbledon on Tuesday, reaching her third Grand Slam semifinal by beating Sloane Stephens 6-4, 7-5 in a rain-interrupted, break-filled match. The 15th-seeded Bartoli, the 2007 runner-up at the All England Club, was leading 5-4 with Stephens serving at

ROME (AP) Fresh off a title in Madrid and back up to No. 2 in the rankings, Roger Federer showed off his strong form with a routine 6-3, 6-4 win over Carlos Berlocq of Argentina in his opening match at the Italian Open on Wednesday. Seeking to win one of

January 1978 marked the start of a new era for the season-ending men’s Masters Championships. Over the course of this event’s first seven years, it had changed locations annually. If the good news was a worldwide spread of the tennis wealth—the tournament staged on four continents during that time—the bad

Wednesday in Paris was nothing short of dramatic: more seeds fell short while others did quite the opposite. Day 4 at Roland Garros did not disappoint. 1. Pella takes painful loss; Nadal's draw continues to open The 19th seed Guido Pella fell short in his second-round match against Corentin Moutet.

Is he in or out? The clay-court season has long been Daniil Medvedev’s least favorite time of year, and though he was already feeling frustration in his first match of the swing, the former world No. 1 channeled it into winning tennis at the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters and a 6-2,

INDIAN WELLS, Calif. -- Li Na beat Dominika Cibulkova 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 in a rematch of their Australian Open final, moving the Chinese star into the semifinals of the BNP Paribas Open on Thursday. Li, who beat Cibulkova to win her second Grand Slam title in January, dropped her first

PARIS (AP) Stan Wawrinka's French Open title brings back the old debate about who deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as the elite in men's tennis. For years, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal were alone at the top. Then Novak Djokovic elbowed his way into the conversation. Soon

MADRID (AP) Rafael Nadal easily defeated Andrey Kuznetsov 6-3, 6-3 to reach the third round of the Madrid Masters on Tuesday, while Andy Murray advanced after a hard-fought 7-6, 3-6, 6-1 win over 37-year-old Radek Stepanek. Nadal broke Kuznetsov's serve once in the first set and twice in the second

SYDNEY (AP)—U.S. Open champion Sam Stosur lost to Francesca Schiavone 6-2, 6-4 in the first round of the Sydney International on Monday in another setback in her preparation for next week’s Australian Open. Schiavone beat Stosur in the 2010 French Open final and had little trouble disposing of the local