WATCH: Roger Federer speaks to press before the Laver Cup

It seemed much longer ago than two years, and further away than the distance between Toronto and Montreal, since Bianca Andreescu won her homeland’s WTA tournament. Don’t just call it another decade. Call it another universe. But here Andreescu was this evening, at the National Bank Open, a WTA event

Cheers of "Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Oi! Oi! Oi!" were all over the courts on Day 4 of the Australian Open, as local favorites looked to find a dose of Melbourne magic. Here are a few of Thursday's notable results. A year ago, at his home major, Alex Bolt put together

Defending Australian Open champion Victoria Azarenka says Serena Williams is the player to beat this year in Melbourne. Williams has won the last two Grand Slam titles and beat Azarenka five times last year, including a three-set win in the U.S. Open final. "Yeah, I think so," said Azarenka, who

Dmitry Tursunov mentions Rafael Nadal’s occasional slow play between points to chair umpire Cedric Mourier during his loss to Grigor Dimitrov in Rotterdam. Mourier told Tursunov that he was taking too much time against Dimitrov, prompting the Russian to reference Nadal. “How much am I over? How much am I

TORONTO (AP) Wimbledon champion Andy Murray has withdrawn from the Rogers Cup tennis tournament because of fatigue. The world No. 2 men's tennis player and defending Rogers Cup champion made the announcement Monday, saying he needs time to rest after going deep in several recent tournaments. Murray is coming off

RABAT, Morocco (AP) Top-seeded Timea Bacsinszky of Switzerland beat Anna Blinkova of Russia 6-4, 6-2 to reach the second round of the Grand Prix SAR on Tuesday. The 15th-ranked Bacsinszky, who broke Blinkova's serve six times, next plays Kateryna Kozlova of Ukraine. Richel Hogenkamp, a Dutch player ranked 139th, overcame

Tennis pro Nick Kyrgios says he had "suicidal thoughts" and dealt with depression and abuse of drugs and alcohol in the past, the latest in a series of high-profile athletes to speak publicly and frankly about their mental health. The 26-year-old Australian, who has been ranked as high as No.

WATCH: Victoria Azarenka talks about defeating Madison Keys and being inspired by Andy Murray's grit during her 2023 Australian Open press conference.

FLASHBACK: Elina Svitolina raises money for Ukraine on this episode of The Break

You might think that, at his point in his long career, Novak Djokovic wouldn’t be able to prove his regular observers wrong. By now, who would dare to doubt that he can do anything on a tennis court, no matter what age he happens to be? But Djokovic proved me

World No. 1 Novak Djokovic’s run to the Roland Garros title this year was a stats-lover’s dream—here are 19 of the best stats from the Serb’s 19th career Grand Slam triumph: The Grand Slam race is now 20-20-19. Most people were predicting we would leave Roland Garros with Rafael Nadal

Christmas for adults is largely a remembered holiday. Every year at this time we’re reminded of the magical sound that the word had for us as kids, the feverish sense of anticipation we felt as it approach, our uncontrollable 5:00 A.M dash downstairs to the tree, against our parents’ pointless

We’ve reached that time of year again: The dry season, or as I like to call it, Appearance Fee February (anybody got a catchier name than that?). For those of us in the U.S., the first post-Super Bowl weekend also marks the end of the NFL for nine long months.

What is the average, red-blooded, 19-year-old American male doing at 8 a.m. on a given day? If he has been in college for any length of time, he may have forgotten that there actually is an 8 in the morning. By his sophomore year, he’s probably learned not to schedule

Belgian rivals Justine Henin and Kim Clijsters will meet for the 24th time in the Miami semis after Henin took down No. 2 seed Caroline Wozniacki, 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-4, and Clijsters hit past Sam Stosur, 6-3, 7-5. Henin owns a 12-11 edge in their rivalry and has won five

Roger Federer, who tied Jimmy Connors with 233 Grand Slam match wins with his first-round victory over Tobias Kamke, says that he and the eight-time Grand Slam champion are not personally close. "He didn't talk to me much when he was working with [Andy] Roddick," Federer said. "He was quite

Today I’m discussing a new tennis memoir, Late to the Ball (Scribner), with its author, Gerry Marzorati, a former editor of the New York Times Magazine who writes about the sport for NewYorker.com. In his book, Marzorati talks about what it's like to learn the sport later in life, and

The crystal ball in Times Square drops Tuesday night to mark the start of the New Year in New York, but tennis balls are already in full flight around the world, signalling the start of the new season. We preview this week's tournament action to kick off 2014: