On Day 1 of the Australian Open, defending men's title holder Rafael Nadal meets Jack Draper in the third match on Rod Laver Arena. The winner is guaranteed to play an American in the second round. Brandon Nakashima will be that guy, if he can find a way past countryman

INDIAN WELLS, Calif.—On Sunday, Steve Johnson hung up his racquet at the tournament that inspired him to win four ATP singles titles and an Olympic bronze medal after earning the distinction of greatest men’s player in NCAA history. Having fallen in the qualifying of singles at Indian Wells this past

WATCH: Sam Querrey checks in with Tennis Channel Live after his first-round win at Wimbledon.

HIGHLIGHTS: Kiki Bertens upsets Angelique Kerber at the WTA Finals:

LOS ANGELES (AP)—Two-time champion Sam Querrey ran his Farmers Classic winning streak to 11 on Friday night, taking a 6-2, 3-1 lead before fifth-seeded Xavier Malisse of Belgium retired from their quarterfinal match because of a right knee injury. Querrey, the 2009 and 2010 winner who missed the event missed

NEW YORK (AP)—Noticing Maria Sharapova won 6-0, 6-0 the other day, Kaia Kanepi mentioned to her trainer that the last time she was the victim of a double bagel she was 13. It was looking as though she had jinxed herself when she failed to win a game in her

BRISBANE, Australia (AP)—Sixth-ranked Samantha Stosur of Australia opened her 2011 season with a 7-6 (1), 6-1 win over Lucie Hradecka of the Czech Republic in the first round of the Brisbane International on Monday. The top-seeded Stosur took almost 90 minutes to overcome qualifier Hradecka, coming back from 4-1 down

BRISBANE, Australia (AP)—After winning the first match she’s played since her U.S. Open final defeat last September, Serena Williams admitted she’s dreading another season of grueling workouts but still can’t live without tennis. The 30-year-old Williams had her service broken in the opening game Monday before settling in and beating

LONDON -- As usual, Roger Federer is looking to add to one of his many records. And as many expected, Novak Djokovic will be trying to stop him. The top two players in the world advanced to the championship match at the ATP finals on Sunday, each looking beatable early

LONDON (AP) For Caroline Wozniacki, just winning a Grand Slam match these days would be nice. The former No. 1-ranked player came into Wimbledon unseeded at a major for the first time in eight years and with a world ranking of No. 45, her lowest since 2008. Faced with a

WATCH—Match point from Roger Federer's win over Gilles Simon in Basel:

Novak Djokovic began his Australian Open post-match press conference in a somber mood Sunday evening when he addressed the reason why he eschewed the traditional on-court interview after reaching the quarterfinals—a decision that drew boos from fans on Rod Laver Arena. “Couple days ago. the famous sports journalist who works

The former world No. 4, who currently serves on the AELTC's board, dives into an extended chat about the upcoming 2021 season, hopes for greater collaboration within the sport, his Olympic and retirement experiences, "thirsty" evenings and unique communication with Paul Annacone.

Chaos theory has been critical to the discourse surrounding women’s tennis in the last decade. But in a section of the Australian Open draw where the favorites have held impressively to form, so too has Naomi Osaka been free from the negative consequences of the Butterfly Effect—even as one such

Mornin'. I'm sitting here in the Marriott Biscayne Bay hotel, in a room on the 8th floor, with a view of the port of Miami, a pea-green sea (it's the overcast), and the causeway leading to South Beach, where I'm going later to do Jaegermeister shots in a bar full

KEY BISCAYNE, Fla.—On Monday, Grigor Dimitrov scored the biggest win of his season by taking out second-seeded Andy Murray, 6-7 (1), 6-4, 6-3. The loss marks Murray’s second straight early-round defeat after the world No. 2 fell in a third-set tiebreaker to Federico Delbonis in Indian Wells. Both men held

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) Australian Open champion Angelique Kerber, ranked No. 2 in the world, retired because of a viral illness during her semifinal match Saturday at the Volvo Car Open, sending American Sloane Stephens to the final. Stephens will face Elena Vesnina, the Russian qualifier who upset fifth-seeded Sara Errani

WIMBLEDON, England(AP) Francesca Schiavone says winning the French Open hasn't changed her. It has changed how others regard her. Wimbledon will be her first tournament since Roland Garros, where she became the first Italian woman to win a Grand Slam singles title. Her victory two weeks ago bumped soccer off

HOUSTON (AP)—Sixth-seeded Kei Nishikori of Japan upset top-seeded Mardy Fish of the United States for a 6-3, 6-2 victory in the quarterfinals of the U.S. Men’s Clay Court Championship on Friday night. Nishikori did not face a break point in the match and leaped from a 2-2 tie in the

After a first-round Australian Open victory over a talented teenager, 21-year-old Leylah Fernandez said the years keep comin' (and they don't stop comin'). The No. 32 seed opened her stay in Melbourne with a 7-6(5), 6-2 win over 17-year-old Czech qualifier Sara Bejlek on Sunday, and the Czech talent pushed