MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) Li Na's best year on the WTA Tour was like a roller coaster. She lost the Australian Open final to Kim Clijsters, then won the French Open to become the first Asian player to win a Grand Slam title. She had a big dip in the second

A player needs 75 percent of the votes to be elected. The 38-year-old is a single father who still lives in Russia. After he finished his career, Kafelnikov competed as a professional poker player, did some work as a TV analyst, and also helped coach the Russian Davis Cup team.

NEW YORK -- Serena Williams will have to settle for playing in only one U.S. Open final this year. Williams and sister Venus fell 6-4, 6-2 to the Czech team of Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka in the women's doubles semifinals Friday night -- a match played shortly after Serena

NEW YORK (AP) -- The ATP board of directors is going to take a closer look at men's professional tennis with no service lets. The board has approved the elimination of lets on the Challenger Tour for the first three months of next year. ATP Executive Chairman Brad Drewett says

ROME (AP) -- Tennis officials are considering adding third-set tiebreakers at the 2016 Rio Olympics after marathon matches in London this year. Also, bronze-medal matches could be eliminated to lighten the loads of players entered in multiple events. ITF president Francesco Ricci Bitti tells The Associated Press at the European

MELBOURNE, Australia(AP) Former Wimbledon finalist David Nalbandian has withdrawn from the Australian Open due to an abdominal injury. The 28-year-old Argentine player withdrew from the Auckland tuneup tournament this week and informed Australian Open organizers Wednesday that he was unable to contest the opening Grand Slam event of the season.

Men's wildcards for Miami have gone to James Blake, Milos Raonic, Ryan Harrison, Jack Sock and Bernard Tomic. Blake is the only veteran in the group, his ranking falling after injuries caused him to miss most of the second half of last year. Women's wildcards were awarded to Dinara Safina,

Former Wimbledon and U.S. Open finalist Mark Philippoussis says he has no desire to return to the ATP Tour. The 34-year-old Australian played for the World TeamTennis' St. Louis Aces in their 24-11 win against the Boston Lobsters. Philippoussis is living in San Diego and is enjoying surfing. "I don’t

Australian Davis Cup captain Pat Rafter tries to temper expectations of 18-year-old Bernard Tomic. "I definitely see him as a Top 10 player, but where he goes from there I have no idea," Rafter told the Daily Telegraph. "It's a really hard one to say that he can be better

PERTH, Australia (AP) French Open champion Li Na and Wimbledon winner Petra Kvitova will contest the mixed-teams Hopman Cup tennis event in January as part of the lead up to the Australian Open. Li will partner with 19-year-old Wu Di for China, while Kvitova will join ninth-ranked Tomas Berdych for

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Open total purse this year is more than $57 million, the richest in tennis history. The men's and women's singles champion will each receive $3.85 million, and the men's and women's doubles champion teams will get $740,000. Those are both the highest payouts in

We're answering the 10 biggest questions on the WTA and ATP tours in 2020. The entire list will be rolled out here. The 23-year-old seems to have it all: the smooth serve, the putaway forehand, the biting slice backhand and a nose for the net. She also has a French

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Charleston's WTA event will have a renovated stadium and a new sponsor for 2022. Tournament organizers said Wednesday that Credit One Bank has committed to be a multi-year title sponsor of the event that had been called the Volvo Car Open from 2016 through this past

GENEVA (AP) — Roger Federer does not expect to return from his latest knee surgery in time for Wimbledon next June, the tennis great said in an interview published Wednesday by Swiss media. "The truth is that I'd be incredibly surprised to play Wimbledon," the 40-year-old Federer told the Tribune

In the 129-year history of the U.S. Open, the event has been played on three different court surfaces. From its inception in 1881 until 1974, the tournament was played on grass. In 1975, the U.S. Open switched from green lawn to green clay (Har-Tru) after mounting player complaints about the

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP)—Belgian tennis players Yanina Wickmayer and Xavier Malisse have appealed to Switzerland’s supreme court to end a two-year investigation into whether they broke anti-doping rules. The Court of Arbitration for Sport says the players have asked the Swiss Federal Tribunal to rule that CAS has no authority to

In the quarterfinals of Washington, Jack Sock was up against a tall challenge in Ivo Karlovic. The 37-year-old, fresh from winning his seventh title in Newport, stands at 6'11" so Sock, who is a respectable 6'3", got innovative:

It took only five minutes for Daria Kasatkina to come up with what may very well be the shot of the week at the Rogers Cup in Toronto. The 20-year-old Russian was playing the always-creative Roberta Vinci, but she landed herself on the highlight reels with an incredible tweener winner

Fans asked Caroline Garcia some interesting questions via Outside the Ball. You'll learn the 23-year-old's nickname is "Caro" just like Caroline Wozniacki’s, and she's a big fan of Robert Downey Jr. (or Iron Man) and Hugh Jackman. Maybe one of the Frenchwoman's favorite actors will show up at one of

Nicole Gibbs shared some very tough news with her followers on Monday: a cancer diagnosis. The 26-year-old will undergo surgery on Friday to remove a growth on the roof of her mouth that came back positive for mucoepidermoid carcinoma, a type of salivary gland cancer. "Unfortunately I will be withdrawing