Tennis enthusiast and Wimbledon patron Kate Middleton made her return to SW19 on Friday. The Duchess of Cambridge looked delighted to be back at her favorite tournament and greeted the public before taking in Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares' opening doubles match. Middleton sat with former world No. 4 Tim

Venus Williams may have turned 40 in June, in the age of quarantine, though she shows in a new video from her own YouTube channel that it's not too late for a legend to add to their repertoire. Sporting a "new attitude," the elder Williams sister feigns rage in the

As much as Serena Williams has been missed on the WTA tour, her absence has produced some intriguing plot lines and scintillating rivalries that could continue into next season. Baseline will countdown the favorite rivalries of 2017—and here’s hoping we see more chapters in 2018. See No. 4 here. 3

The 2020 season was not what anybody had anticipated, but players figured out how to have all kinds of fun nonetheless. Baseline is counting down the Top 10 viral moments of 2020. 10 When the world was first turned upside-down, tennis players, who normally have nearly every day of the

Nick Kyrgios is finally back in action and he's showing the world that he's talented as ever. The Australia pulled off one of his signature tweeners against Maximilian Marterer on Thursday in Stuttgart. The trick shot landed for a clean winner in the third set, after which Kyrgios would drop

Stan By Rosangel Valenti, TW Contributing Editor Good morning. This is your daily thread for discussing the tennis action taking place in Rome (or in Berlin, for the WTA). I'll be attending today's semifinals in Rome, having planned this event well in advance - though it's safe to say that

LONDON (AP) — Andy Murray hasn't decided on whether he'll play at Wimbledon next week following his back surgery. The 37-year-old Murray had surgery Saturday after retiring injured from a midweek match at Queen's Club in the buildup to what was expected to be his final appearance at the All

Andreas Seppi says his win over Roger Federer at the Australian Open is the most important of his career. The 30-year-old Italian was 0-10 against Federer entering their third-round match. "Yeah, of course. It's first time I beat him. I beat once Nadal in Rotterdam when he was No. 2

PARIS—Timea Bacsinszky advanced to the fourth round at Roland Garros with a straight-set upset of No. 16 seed Madison Keys. The world No. 24 has yet to reach the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam tournament but has reached a career-high ranking this season (No. 21) thanks to two title runs

An old adage advises that if you choose a job you love, you will never work a day in your life. Andres Bella, a former Quinnipiac University tennis player, took that saying to heart by combing two of his life passions: tennis and art. Bella creates masterpieces using tennis materials,

It stands to reason that Novak Djokovic's favorite song may be "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?" (Yes, from The Lion King.) Upon winning his unprecedented 30th Masters 1000 title on Sunday, and on the occasion of defeating Kei Nishikori for the ninth consecutive time, Djokovic took to the mic

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The WTA is going to test out allowing coaching from the stands at non-Grand Slam tournaments for the rest of this season. The tour said Monday that the change amounts to letting coaches offer the sort of hand signals and simple instructions that happen currently even

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) After winning a grueling, tightly contested match that lasted nearly four hours, Tomas Berdych didn't expect to be met by a stadium full of booing and hisses. Berdych, the seventh seed from Czech Republic, was jeered by the crowd for refusing to shake hands with his opponent,

Famous as the first freely-elected leader of Russia, Boris Yeltsin stood by his country for better or worse – in politics as well as his favorite pastime, tennis. But last week, the world lost one of its most well-known modern leaders and tennis lost one of its biggest fans. Yeltsin

PARIS(AP) Jelena Jankovic dominated her opponent before a 2-hour rain delay Tuesday, and then did well enough after it to advance to the second round of the French Open by beating Petra Cetkovska of the Czech Republic 6-2, 6-3. The fifth-seeded Jankovic was leading 4-1 when the rain started at

INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP)—Svetlana Kuznetsova had a succinct explanation for losing her opening match at the BNP Paribas Open. “The tennis ball is perfect. I am not perfect,” the top-seeded Russian said after a 6-4, 4-6, 6-1 loss to Spain’s Carla Suarez Navarro in the second round on Saturday. Kuznetsova,

Spain has appealed to the International Tennis Federation over the surface chosen by the United States for their July Davis Cup quarterfinal in Austin, TX. The surface, called Indoor Hard Premiere, is not on the list of approved surfaces by the ITF, even though a source told TENNIS.com that it

PARIS (AP) Roger Federer has been in nearly the exact same position as Maxime Teixeira found himself at the French Open, staring across the net at one of the game's greats. More than a decade ago, long before the 16 Grand Slam titles and the millions of dollars in earnings,

MASON, Ohio (AP) - Rafael Nadal wanted to play a lot of tennis at the Western & Southern Open, though maybe not all in one day. Nadal survived a three-set, three-tiebreaker match against fellow Spaniard Fernando Verdasco on Thursday, advancing to the quarterfinals with a 7-6 (5), 6-7 (4), 7-6

WATCH: Facing Cirstea for the first time since 2010, Halep eased into the BNP Paribas Open last eight in straight sets.