PARIS—John Isner, who has reached the third round at the French Open after topping Paolo Lorenzi, says that in the past few weeks he has stopped putting pressure on himself and started to play better. In the first four months of the season, the world No. 22 didn’t go deep

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova is the newest player in tennis’ fashion game. The 33-year-old has booked a spot in the Australian Open fourth round, and she stands out from the pack in all-original apparel that she designed and created herself. Pavlyuchenkova took to social media to show off the new garments, a

Petra Kvitova is looking like one of the favorites for Wimbledon, having won the grass-court tournament in Birmingham with a 4-6, 6-1, 6-2 victory over Magdalena Rybarikova on Sunday. The Czech has now won five titles, also capturing St. Petersburg, Doha, Prague and Madrid, this season. She is a two-time

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) Victoria Azarenka is packing her bags and leaving the Australian Open far earlier than years past, but the two-time former champion sure had fun while she was here. For the Belarussian, who is putting forth a more carefree image these days, this might be just as important

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) Second-seeded Petra Kvitova beat third-seeded Caroline Wozniacki 7-5, 6-1 on Friday night to reach the Connecticut Open final for the fourth consecutive year. The defending champion will play fourth-seeded Lucie Safarova in an all-Czech Republic final. Safarova held off lucky-loser Lesia Tsurenko of the Ukraine 6-2,

BARCELONA—Benoit Paire reached his third ATP semifinal of the year on Friday with a 3-6, 7-5, 6-1 win over Tunisia’s Malek Jaziri at the Barcelona Open. The Frenchman’s talented compatriots—Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Gael Monfils, Richard Gasquet and Gilles Simon—have overshadowed him for years, but Paire is closing in on the Top

WATCH—Court Report from Day 1 at the US Open:

WATCH: Raducanu saved two set points in the opening set and survived nearly three hours in oppressive heat.

NEW YORK—It’s impossible to know what Rafael Nadal, who today announced he’ll miss his long-scheduled participation in Laver Cup, is thinking. Is he on the brink of retirement? Does he want to stretch his career out for one more appearance (maybe at the Davis Cup Final in Magala, Spain)? Does

When James Blake retired from tennis in 2013, he did what thousands of other ex-Ivy Leaguers before him have done: he thought about going into banking. Blake was 33 instead of 23, and his two years at Harvard were long behind him. Unlike most Wall Street wannabes, though, he had

WIMBLEDON, ENGLAND—“The thing is this surface, when you have an opponent that he decides to hit every ball ball very strong, you are in trouble.” These were Rafael Nadal’s first words in his press conference after his upset loss at the hands of Nick Kyrgios on Tuesday. They were very

After all of the decades of frustration, all of the tears and the despair and the self-laceration, how do the British papers celebrate one of their own finally winning big in tennis? They note it, and then move along to a more interesting story. Here’s Monday's headline from the Independent:

WATCH: After letting a 5-0 third-set lead slip away, Andy Murray takes out Nikoloz Basilashvili, 6-3 in the fourth.

Somehow, in the back of your mind, you knew it was destined to come down to something like this - 9-7 in the fifth, with the champion Rafael Nadal prone on his back in the tawny dirt, looking like he'd been shot to death, which in a way he had

One of the fine things about this Grand Slam is that it transpires in the most pleasant and manageable of all the Slam Cities, Melbourne. There's no 90-minute (traffic dependent) commute from the heart of the big city, to some outlying borough or outskirt where the event takes place (the

*88775989 by Pete Bodo Tommy Haas upset No. 4 seed Novak Djokovic at Wimbledon today, and will meet Roger Federer - whom Haas almost put out of the recent French Open, and against whom he is 2-9 - in the semifinals. In the post-match presser, a reporter asked Haas which

"You have to consider her a favorite to win this title," Chris Evert said on ESPN moments after Ons Jabeur advanced to the third round of Wimbledon on Friday. Considering the commentator and the tournament, this was high praise. But lately, the phrase would fit the bill for Jabeur no

WATCH: Sabalenka surged into her third WTA 1000 semifinal of 2023 with a win over Ons Jabeur at the Western & Southern Open.

PARIS (AP) — Juggling sport and religion is helping Ons Jabeur to make a dream debut at the French Open. Jabeur, who is playing in the main singles draw at Roland Garros for the first time, beat sixth-seeded Dominika Cibulkova in straight sets on Wednesday to reach the third round

At Roland Garros, Simona Halep was on a 17-match winning streak, she was the tournament favorite and the No. 1 seed. Iga Swiatek didn't seem to care about any of those stats as she only needed 70 minutes to dispatch the Romanian, 6-1, 6-2 on Sunday. It was night and