Roger Federer and Ashleigh Barty are finding the stadium courts a little slow at the US Open, despite suggestions that they would be speeded up from 2018. The 20-time Grand Slam champion says the court on Arthur Ashe stadium has recently changed. "Now I do believe it's definitely slower than

NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) Defending champion Rajeev Ram beat fellow American Mackenzie McDonald, 6-2, 6-3, in the opening round of the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships on Monday. Ram, a two-time winner on Newport's grass courts - also in 2009 when he won his only other ATP title - needed just

PARIS (AP) — Andy Murray joined other current players in rejecting tennis great Margaret Court's recent public stance against same-sex marriage. The topic has generated discussion at the French Open — including about whether the Australian Open stadium that honors Court should have its name changed. There was also talk

PARIS (AP) — French Open organizers are introducing a draw system to access ticket sales for the clay-court Grand Slam tournament. The French tennis federation said Tuesday it faces an “ever-increasing demand” and that the trial of a random draw for the general public should help reduce waiting times and

PARIS (AP) It will be a fourth straight day on court for Novak Djokovic when he faces Dominic Thiem in the French Open semifinals Friday. At least he gets a change of scenery, because the top-seeded Serb plays on neighboring Court Suzanne Lenglen rather than Court Philippe Chatrier, the main

Casper Ruud has advanced to the fourth round in Miami with a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Alejandro Davidovich Fokina on Sunday night. And the Norwegian's win over the Spaniard was a special one: it was the milestone 100th hard-court win of his career. The 25-year-old Ruud is just the sixth

NEW YORK (AP) The U.S. Tennis Association says a spectator was arrested by police after he jumped over a wall surrounding a U.S. Open court at the end of a match. USTA spokesman Chris Widmaier said the man got onto Court 13 after Kateryna Bondarenko's 5-7, 7-6 (5), 7-5 victory

STUTTGART, Germany (AP) Seven-time Wimbledon champion Roger Federer is healthy again and looking forward to the grass-court season. Federer is still without a title this year and has been battling injuries. The former No. 1 underwent meniscus surgery after losing in the Australian Open semifinals to Novak Djokovic and then

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — LOOKAHEAD TO SATURDAY Coco Gauff and Rafael Nadal will be back on Centre Court on Day 6 at Wimbledon. Gauff will face another American, Amanda Anisimova, in the third round at the All England Club. Nadal, a two-time Wimbledon champion, will play Lorenzo Sonego. In between

LONDON (AP) — Wimbledon will be allowed to have a full crowd of 15,000 at Centre Court for the men's and women's finals next month, a year after the tournament was canceled entirely because of the coronavirus pandemic, the British government said Monday. The grass-court Grand Slam tournament, which begins

Novak Djokovic has extended his historic Centre Court winning streak to 40 matches in a row with a 6-3, 6-3, 7-6 (4) first-round victory over Argentina’s Pedro Cachin at Wimbledon on Monday. Djokovic’s last loss on Centre Court came almost a decade ago—on July 7th, 2013—when he fell to Andy

Samantha Stosur and other Australian players have backed Casey Dellacqua in her criticism of Margaret Court for her stance against same-sex marriage. "Look, I think everyone can have their own opinion. I don’t agree with Margaret’s opinion," Stosur was quoted as saying by AAP. Court recently had a letter published

A funny thing happened to the defending champion at Roland Garros on Monday. Maria Sharapova heard boos from the forever-fickle French crowd upon winning her first-round match against Kaia Kanepi and then departing from the court without staging an interview with the stadium presenter. According to Nick McCarvel of USA

Taylor Fritz hasn’t gotten off to a great start in 2017, but the 19-year-old had an impressive showing in Indian Wells earlier this month, upsetting world No. 39 Benoit Paire and world No. 9 Marin Cilic before losing in the third round. The 19-year-old American took another step toward turning

LONDON (AP)—The WTA says it will add an extra grass-court tournament in Nottingham, England, to its calendar from 2015 to give players more time to gear up for Wimbledon. The ATP and WTA tours had previously announced that the break between the French Open and Wimbledon will be increased to

While pros practice with their fellow athletes all the time, it’s not too often you get to share some court time with someone fresh off winning their 100th title. And who wouldn’t want some of that magic to rub off on them? Leading up to the start of the men’s

Let no one say that the post-Miami, pre-Monte Carlo portion of the tennis calendar isn’t worth the sweat exerted by the players, or the words typed about them by reporters. For this past weekend, one without a tournament at the level of an ATP 500 or WTA Premier, was one

EASTBOURNE, England—Today, I’m spending time with one of my favorite players, Petra Kvitova—also known, to the spectators who wander past her match with Monica Niculescu on Court 2, as, “Is that the girl who won Wimbledon?” Or, alternatively and more damningly, “She isn’t the girl who won Wimbledon, is she?”

This weekend during the Home Court Advantage exhibition in Rolling Hills, CA., we learned that Brandon Holt really does have a home court advantage at Scott Douglas’ incredible green clay court. More importantly though, we learned that Southern California tennis blood runs deep. The event was full of trash-talk between