Hours before Aryna Sabalenka completed the champion’s lap of honor inside Rod Laver Arena, tennis socialites in New York City were toasting the end of the summer Down Under. The “Grand Slam Australian Open Party,” hosted by the Tennis Social Club, emphasized the group's initiative by bringing together tennis players,

The ATP's top players are California dreaming. Defending BNP Paribas Open champion Carlos Alcarz led a crop of stars who were caught practicing in the Golden State this week with the first event of March's Sunshine Double just days away. After flying to the U.S. together last week, Djokovic and

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla.— Sloane Stephens is the defending champion at the Miami Open, but she got lost on her way to the new venue. As the dateline indicates, the tournament has moved from Crandon Park in Key Biscayne to the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens. "This is how much

Before each day's play at the 2019 French Open, we'll preview three must-see matches. What can we expect from Federer in his first match at Roland Garros since 2015? To start, a rapturous Parisian welcome. Few players have ever lived up to the artistic ideals of French tennis fans the

Bianca Andreescu is picking up where she left off from her title victory at Indian Wells. The 19-year-old, who returned this week from an injury layoff, is into the quarterfinals of Toronto. She had not completed an event in between, retiring in her Miami fourth-rounder and withdrawing in the second

Felix Auger-Aliassime (CAN) ATP No. 33; UTR No. 27 (15.45) vs. Alexander Zverev (GER) ATP No. 3; UTR No. 7 (15.81) Here is a matchup we have all been waiting for. Red-hot teen sensation Auger-Aliassime will play Zverev for the first time in their professional careers. It certainly won’t be

It wasn’t that long ago that Ons Jabeur was a player bettors were blindly fading. The Tunisian really struggled towards the end of 2023, and the start of 2024 wasn’t much better. That’s ultimately why Jabeur has been available at such favorable odds lately. But she is really starting to

PARIS (AP) — Simona Halep looked to be on the verge of claiming her first Grand Slam title as well as the No. 1 spot in the rankings. Then it all fell apart. Facing the unseeded Latvian Jelena Ostapenko in the French Open final, Halep took the first set and

Tennis players love the sound of a crowd. That should be particularly clear at a time like this, when the sport is being reopened in rural Germany, southern California and, for the second time this month, West Palm Beach, Fla.—but without fans, who sadly can’t witness it in person. But

The fifth episode of Chris Evert's recently launched WTA One-On-One series features 2018 Australian Open champion and former world No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki, who opens up about how she got into the game and the many ups and downs of her career. "To be the best, or to keep being

Roger Federer vs. Adrian Mannarino We may get a pretty good idea of Federer’s chances at this event right away. Will we see the still-viable competitor who showed up for four rounds at Roland Garros? Or will we see the rust-covered player who struggled to put a ball in the

It’s hard to imagine that a match where one player leads the head-to-head 16-3, and has won 15 of the last 16 meetings, could be considered a toss-up. And if you have money on this match, you probably won't consider it that. By every measure, Novak Djokovic is the favorite

Even as Milos Raonic’s ranking rises, he gets further from beating Roger Federer. The first three times the two men played, Raonic won a set before falling in three tight ones. The last three times they’ve played, at the 2013 Australian Open, at Wimbledon last month, and in Cincinnati on

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From the humorous to the heartwarming to the head-scratching, it's time to shout out a decade’s worth of highs and lows. In sport, there's no such thing as perfect. Although the last decade was full of inspiring moments that captivated fans around the world, there were some speed bumps along

Andy Murray and Stan Wawrinka, each three-time Grand Slam champions, battled in the final of the 2019 European Open in Antwerp. At the beginning of 2019, it appeared that Murray’s career as a professional tennis player was close to an end as lingering problems with his hip greatly hindered his

Each day during the French Open, we'll preview—and predict the winner of—three of the most compelling men's matches. Grigor Dimitrov vs. (17) Richard Gasquet —Head-to-Head: Gasquet leads 1-0 One-handed backhand aficionados should flock to this clash of ultra-talented stylists prone to flights of whimsy. Dimitrov’s sweep of Donald Young was

It was the late stages of Rafael Nadal’s French Open semifinal demolition of No. 6 seed Dominic Thiem and plenty of observers were watching with awe. Retired American Mardy Fish had this to say:

The Wimbledon men’s semifinals are set, plus, there’s a major shocker in mixed doubles. All that, plus a look ahead in the daily Doubles Take. Of course, all of England has caught World Cup fever with Brits setting up a semifinal with the Croats on Wednesday.

TORONTO—Stefanos Tsitsipas has been looking virtually unstoppable in recent weeks. On Thursday, the 19-year-old Greek stunned Novak Djokovic at the Rogers Cup to reach his first ATP Masters 1000 quarterfinals. Tsitsipas' reaction to the 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-3 win said it all.