“I’m completely confident in myself,” Novak Djokovic said before his first match in Madrid, “and I believe in the process of change.” Djokovic, of course, was referring to the very big changes he made last week, when he parted ways with his longtime coach, Marian Vajda, as well as the

MIAMI, USA — Emma Raducanu clinched her biggest win of the year on Friday at the Miami Open presented by Itau, and she celebrated like it too. The 2022 US Open champion completed an electrifying 7-6 (6), 2-6, 7-6 (3) upset over Emma Navarro in the second round, and threw

The heart of the tennis season traditionally starts beating at Indian Wells. From that point until the end of Wimbledon in July, virtually everything—every week—counts. Over those five months, two Grand Slams and five Masters events, four of them dual-gender, will be played. This year, though, the men got the

INDIAN WELLS, CALIF.—“He’s not what he used to be, is he? It’s hard to watch.”—Roger Federer fan in section 172 in Stadium 1 at approximately 4:00 P.M. on Wednesday. “He’ll never be the same player, not after everything with his knees.”—Rafael Nadal fan in section 172 in Stadium at approximately

Editors' Note: Below is the first of many grass-court reports you'll read over the next two weeks, as the pros head toward Wimbledon. Hannah Wilks starts us off, with Steve Tignor arriving in the UK later this week. LONDON—The best-laid plans—my plans, at least—are seldom, if ever, equal to the

PERTH, Australia (AP) Marion Bartoli left her opponent in tears Tuesday after a 6-0, 6-0 rout helped push France past Australia in the eight-team Hopman Cup. Bartoli needed only 50 minutes to beat Jarmila Gajdosova, finishing off the match with her 12th ace. `I'm sorry I beat her that way

FLASHBACK: Swiatek closes out 2021 with round-robin win at WTA Finals

INTERVIEW: Marin Cilic, former Australian Open finalist Before each day's play in Melbourne, we'll preview three must-see matches.

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — A day after eliminating Serena Williams from Wimbledon in her debut at the grass-court Grand Slam, Harmony Tan surprised and angered her doubles partner by withdrawing from that tournament on Wednesday with a thigh injury. Tan, a Frenchwoman ranked 115th who beat the 23-time Grand Slam

By virtue of the results at the WTA 1000 event in Guadalajara today, Coco Gauff has qualified for WTA Finals in singles for the first time—in two weeks she’ll be in Fort Worth, Texas, battling it out with the best of the best for the biggest title of her career.

This has been one of the busiest weeks of the season to be a tennis fan. There's no combined 1000 tournament or Grand Slam going on, but consider this smorgasbord of shotmaking: East coasters in the U.S. can wake up to the Rolex Paris Masters at 5 a.m., watch the

WATCH: Carlos Alcaraz defeats Dan Evans in the 2023 Barcelona Open semifinals

We’re only on Day 1 of 2024 and Novak Djokovic has already made more history: by continuing his reign at No. 1 on the January 1st, 2024 rankings, Djokovic has now been ranked No. 1 at some point in 13 different years in his career, raising the bar on his

When Elena Rybakina was broken at love to start her first-round clash with Karolina Pliskova Tuesday night at the Australian Open, one wondered how that might set the tone going forward. If anything, the game was simply a blip on the No. 3 seed’s radar. With the two soon engaging

Would you buy popcorn from Maria Sakkari, or a tournament T-shirt from Daniil Medvedev? Fans found out at the BNP Paribas Open. (Well, sort of!) The two Top 10 seeds, as well as Alex de Minaur, Ons Jabeur, Andrey Rublev and Holger Rune, went undercover around the grounds at Indian

“Who’s gonna say now that women’s tennis is boring?” Iga Swiatek asked the Spanish audience at the Caja Magica, minutes after the Mutua Madrid Open final. Certainly no one in attendance, after the top two seeds brought the women’s event to a thrilling conclusion on Saturday evening. While the men’s

The BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells demands much of its champions—no wonder, then, that five different women have won the 96-player event over the past five years. Before the WTA Premier Mandatory tournament begins this year in the desert, take a walk down memory lane at its champion's roll.

On Sunday, Lorenzo Sonego thought he was out of Vienna after losing in the final round of qualifying to Aljaz Bedene. Five days later, the 25-year-old secured the biggest win of his career by shocking world No. 1 Novak Djokovic, 6-2, 6-1, in Friday’s Erste Bank Open quarterfinals to become

If you wanted to show the people of the future what a typical set by Roger Federer looked like, you could do worse than boxing up a recording of his first one today against Janko Tipsarevic in London and stuffing it in the proverbial time capsule. It had all of

PARMA, Italy (AP) — Serena Williams earned her first victory in more than three months by beating 17-year-old qualifier Lisa Pigato 6-3, 6-2 Monday in the first round of the Emilia-Romagna Open. Williams, who accepted a wild-card invitation for the Parma tournament after losing her opening match at the Italian