WIMBLEDON—This Friday afternoon, for the better part of 3.9 sets, Frances Tiafoe had turned Wimbledon’s Centre Court into a highly-captivating form of tennis theatre. In a third-round match, versus defending champion Carlos Alcaraz, Tiafoe had taken a two sets to one lead. Movement, power, touch, accuracy, angles, imagination—categories usually heavily

When Roger Federer and his wife Mirka’s first set of twins were born in 2009, it was hard not to fantasize about their endless tennis potential (Mirka, who met Roger at the 2000 Sydney Oympics, also played tennis for Switzerland). The same goes for power couple Andre Agassi and Steffi

MIAMI, USA —After a painful defeat in the Indian Wells final, all Aryna Sabalenka wanted to do was forget everything and head straight to the next tournament. The world No. 1 reached the final without dropping a set in the California desert, recording a confidence-boosting 6-0, 6-1 victory against Madison

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP)—Fernando Gonzalez of Chile is set to retire after the Masters tournament next month in Florida. The 31-year-old Gonzalez, who reached No. 5 in the ATP rankings, made the announcement at an emotional news conference on Thursday. He said he no longer had the energy to play at

Rafael Nadal, who pulled out of his semifinal against Andy Murray at Miami’s Sony Ericsson Open, says his sore left knee is not as bad as it was in 2009, when he was forced to pull out of Wimbledon and did not have chance to defend his title. Nadal said

BERLIN (AP) — Second-ranked Aryna Sabalenka and seventh-ranked Coco Gauff had upset losses to Russian players in the second round of the Berlin Open on Thursday. Sabalenka, the Australian Open champion from Belarus, was beaten 6-2, 7-6 (2) by Veronika Kudermetova despite improving after an error-strewn start. Gauff lost 6-4,

MONTREAL (AP)—Tenth-seeded Li Na rallied to beat 16th-seeded Lucie Safarova 3-6, 6-3, 7-5 on Sunday to advance to the final in the Rogers Cup. Li, from China, will face fifth-seeded Petra Kvitova, a 3-6, 6-2, 6-3 winner over seventh-seeded Caroline Wozniacki. The final is Monday. Safarova led 5-1 in the

Naomi Osaka is serving up yet another fashionable ace. The 23-year-old posted a Levis ad on Instagram, one of the many campaigns the Japanese star has done since capturing her maiden Grand Slam title in 2018. Osaka first appeared in the Levis' "Beauty of Becoming" campaign in February with fellow

Daniil Medvedev was the surprise story of the first round when he ousted No. 5 seed Stan Wawrinka, but he upped the ante in round two with some fairly bizarre behavior. The 21-year-old Russian was frustrated with the officiating from chair umpire Mariana Alves—so irate that in the fifth set

Coco Gauff needed just over an hour to dispatch Viktoria Kuzmova, 6-3, 6-1, in her first-round match at the ASB Classic in Auckland on Monday. The 15-year-old suffocated Kuzmova with her consistency and court coverage, winning a whopping 60% of total points. Gauff will face the winner of the match

By Heidi Kim, TW Contributing Writer

KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. -- Serena Williams can claim another first, and another victory: She beat the traffic by riding a bicycle to her match. With Key Biscayne's main road in a snarl Saturday night, Williams borrowed a bike at her hotel, rode to her match and beat Ayumi Morita in

TOKYO (AP) -- Japanese wild card Tatsuma Ito upset Australian Open champion Stan Wawrinka 7-5, 6-2 in the first round of the Japan Open on Tuesday. The No. 103-ranked Ito converted all four of his break-point chances to dispatch top-seeded Wawrinka at Ariake Coliseum. He moved on to meet Benjamin

WIMBLEDON, England—Roger Federer says he is no longer against Hawk-Eye, having been one of the most prominent critics of the replay system when it was first introduced about seven years ago. But the 17-time Grand Slam champion adds that he still doesn’t regard electronic replay, which uses cameras and mathematical

Victoria Azarenka, who retired in the second set of her third-round match against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in Cincinnati, has a leg injury and said she didn’t want to risk not being fit at the U.S. Open. Azarenka won the first set 6-1 and retired after losing the first three games of

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP)—Michael Berrer of Germany upset top-seeded Ivan Ljubicic 6-4, 6-4 on Wednesday to advance to the quarterfinals of Zagreb Indoors. Berrer, last year’s finalist, had little trouble as shown by him breaking back immediately in the second set after dropping serve for the only time in the match.

INDIAN WELLS, Calif.—Agnieszka Radwanska will move back up to No. 2 in the WTA rankings, having reached the semifinals of Indian Wells. Radwanska defeated Petra Kvitova in straight sets in the quarterfinals, coming from 5-2 down in the second set, and will move in front of Angelique Kerber in the

Victoria Azarenka, pregnant with her first child, says she has not set a date for returning to tour, but does intend to make a comeback. The 27-year-old from Belarus has not played since the French Open, and described her pregnancy as “a completely different experience” for her. “In theory, you

TOKYO (AP) Top-seeded Kei Nishikori came from a set down to beat American lucky loser Donald Young 4-6, 6-2, 6-2 on Monday in the first round of the Japan Open. Nishikori had been drawn to face Nicolas Almagro, but the Spanish player withdrew because of illness. Young, who had lost

WATCH—An update on the ATP race to London: