Affectionately known as the fifth major, the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells always boasts a star-studded field, but this year's roster is extra special. Every member of the world’s Top 75 from both the ATP and WTA tour are scheduled to compete for more than $15 million in total

In a year when tennis was aggressively bouncing back from lockdowns and tournaments played before vast swaths of empty seats, nobody rebounded more ferociously than Novak Djokovic. While the bodies of his exalted rivals were crying out, “No mas!”, Djokovic didn’t just put the pedal to the metal, he punched

SYDNEY (AP) — The ATP says all top 10-ranked players, including Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer, have committed to play in the inaugural ATP Cup in Australia in January. It said Saturday that the top 18-ranked countries and Australia, as the host-country wild card, will be among the

Time to reshuffle the decks and play another round. The names will mostly be the same—with one significant addition on the men’s side—in Cincinnati as they were in Toronto and Montreal. The hard courts will be similar, too. But we’ll be one week closer to the US Open, and the

PARIS (AP) — LOOKAHEAD TO WEDNESDAY The star-studded top half of the men's bracket moves into the second round on Day 4 at Roland Garros, with Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz all on the schedule. Defending champion Djokovic faces Alex Molcan at Court Suzanne Lenglen, 13-time champion Nadal

NEW YORK (AP) — Billie Jean King's victory in the "Battle of the Sexes" was a milestone moment as women pushed for equality on the playing field and beyond. On the 50th anniversary of that match against Bobby Riggs—still the most-watched in tennis history — King moved toward becoming the

All the consternation over whether golf's addition to the Summer Games makes sense raises the question of whether tennis — another individual, professional sport with four annual Grand Slam tournaments and millions of dollars in prize money — belongs, too. To U.S. Olympic men's tennis coach Jay Berger, the answer

NEW YORK—The 2024 US Open singles draws were revealed on Thursday afternoon and all eyes are on two projected semifinal clashes: in the men’s draw, world No. 1 Jannik Sinner and No. 3 Carlos Alcaraz landed in the top half and in the women’s draw, a rematch of the 2023

PARIS (AP) — For each top athlete, a word. For Usain Bolt, it would have to be speed. For football's Lionel Messi: balance. For swimmer Michael Phelps: buoyant. But for the new king of men's tennis, Andy Murray, a quality both mental and physical springs to mind: fortitude. Meanies would

The Davis Cup could be transformed into a one-week, one-location, 18-nation World Cup of Tennis in a major overhaul aimed at enticing the best men's players to play. Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic are among the stars to have reacted positively to the creation of an annual season-ending event, starting

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 27, 2023 – Tennis Channel will have exclusive, live coverage of the second annual United Cup competition December 28-January 7, the first event of the 2024 tennis season. Held in the Australian cities of Perth and Sydney, the tournament features 18 national teams of men’s and women’s

You can never bet against the Big 4 for long, but there would seem to be some vulnerability at the top of the men’s game right now. No. 1 Novak Djokovic was in listless letdown mode last week in Toronto. Rafael Nadal has been sidelined with a wrist injury and

LOS ANGELES, March 17, 2021 – For the first time in its almost 18-year history, Tennis Channel will be the exclusive home of the Miami Open, one of the sport’s most prestigious, star-laden competitions. The network’s telecast will take viewers from first ball March 23 to championship point April 4

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In the space of 24 hours, we’ve gone from no tennis to…all the tennis. At the same time that the US Open was holding a press conference on Wednesday to declare that the tournament will go on as scheduled (or nearly as scheduled), the ATP and WTA laid out their

With the destination of the Davis Cup determined, the professional tennis season has come to a close. Thus, we begin our look back at 2017, a memorable year on and off the court. Our Top 10 On-Court Moments, and our Top 10 Off-Court Moments, will remind you of everything that

This is transition time in tennis. Spring turns to summer, green grass replaces red clay, long rallies give way to big serves, and a quieter, quicker cadence comes to the game. Since 2005, that transition has been echoed by an equally abrupt baton-handoff at the top of the men’s tour.

INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP) — Andy Murray and Angelique Kerber, the world's top-ranked men's and women's players, head the field for the BNP Paribas Open, with every top-10 male and female player entered for the two-week tournament in the Southern California desert. Murray and Kerber will be seeking their first

When you say “college tennis,” one of the first things that should come to mind is Georgia and the Dan Magill Tennis Complex. No other city has hosted more NCAA Championships than Athens, with 31 events (24 men’s, three women’s and four dual-gender). The atmosphere in Athens is tough to

Have you noticed how completely the U.S. tennis landscape has been turned upside-down? Two or three years ago, it appeared that John Isner and Sam Querrey were understudies to Andy Roddick and Mardy Fish, the Twin Towers destined to replace those veterans in the U.S. hierarchy. Okay, Roddick and Fish