Five things you can learn from Roger Federer’s victory in the 2004 U.S. Open men’s final. 1. KICK IT OLD SCHOOL I like to say that Roger Federer has brought the old-school game of tennis to the modern world. He plays with tremendous variety of shot and strategy, and it

Each day of Wimbledon, Baseline will sum up the action with a photo gallery of the top surprises. 1 Gauff Stuns Her Idol

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Rafael Nadal added a second Olympic tennis gold medal to all of those Grand Slam trophies, teaming with Marc Lopez to win the men's doubles championship for Spain at the Rio de Janeiro Games. Nadal and Lopez came back from a break down in the

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic remained unbeaten this year by routing Andreas Seppi of Italy 6-0, 6-3 as the top four seeds powered into the semifinals of the Dubai Championships on Thursday. Defending champion Roger Federer defeated Nikolay Davydenko 6-2, 6-2. Djokovic will play fourth-seeded

BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) Madison Keys showed her ability to make an impact on the new grass court season with a 7-6 (3), 6-4 victory over Timea Babos on Monday in the first round of the Aegon Classic. The 21-year-old Floridian, described last year as a future world number one by

Milos Raonic says he was fairly pleased with how he played at Queen's Club, but he knows that if he has any chance of winning Wimbledon, he’ll have to bear down. Raonic was up 3-0 in the second set against Andy Murray in the final, but the Scot stepped it

Kei Nishikori, who retired in his opening match at the Barcelona Open on Wednesday, is more confident in his form of late, but acknowledges that the slow surface is not the best for his oft-injured wrist. At last week's Monte Carlo Masters, the kickoff to the European clay-court swing, the

Tommy Paul felt the pressure coming from across the net of his opening match in Madrid Saturday night. Staying the course inside Manolo Santana Stadium, and digging into the red clay when his back was up against the wall, the No. 11 seed handled the challenge Joao Fonseca presented for

A patchy performance from Rafael Nadal sees him leave Doha without the title for the fifth time, while the victorious Gael Monfils moves on to the final after a 6-3, 6-4 conquest. Monfils’ solitary victory over Nadal came at this tournament in 2009, and he was impressive enough in repeating

Carlos Alcaraz has successfully defended his Mutua Madrid Open title, battling past Jan-Lennard Struff in the final, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3. Alcaraz is just the second man to win the Mutua Madrid Open in back-to-back years since it made its debut on the ATP calendar in 2002, after Rafael Nadal, who

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Carlos Alcaraz held onto No. 1 in the ATP rankings on Monday by virtue of his victory over No. 2 Novak Djokovic in the Wimbledon final, and Marketa Vondrousova's first Grand Slam title pushed her all the way up to a career-high No. 10 on the

BEIJING (AP) — Jannik Sinner won his third title of the year by beating third-ranked Daniil Mevedev 7-6 (2), 7-6 (2) Wednesday at the China Open. The 22-year-old Italian had not beaten Medvedev in their six previous meetings, but he quickly found his rythym from the baseline to earn his

In 2019, for the third consecutive year, no man outside of the Big 3 captured a Grand Slam title. The oft-repeated summarizing stat is that no man still in his 20s has a Slam to his name. So something's got to give eventually, doesn't it? It's unclear when the transition

INDIAN WELLS, CALIF.—“He’s 25 and ranked No. 53,” one of the spectators near me said to his friend. “There must be something wrong here.” The 25-year-old in the sentence above was Spain’s Roberto Bautista Agut. What was wrong? He was up a break in the third set against No. 4

TURIN, Italy (AP) — Defending champion Daniil Medvedev clinched his place in the ATP Finals semifinals after beating 2018 champ Alexander Zverev on Tuesday to make it two wins out of two in Turin. Late entrant Jannik Sinner could join him after storming past Hubert Hurkacz in straight sets in

NEW YORK—With the exception of the Paris Masters, which gave us a maiden Masters champion (David Ferrer) and ATP finalist (Jerzy Janowicz), it’s been an extremely predictable 2012 season in men’s tennis. Every tournament of significance has been won by Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, or Andy Murray, and

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP)—Caroline Wozniacki was happy to win her first clay-court tournament of the season at the Family Circle Cup. That didn't keep the world's No. 1 player from looking ahead to a major prize -- the French Open. Wozniacki ended a satisfying week here with a 6-2, 6-3 victory

by Bobby Chintapalli, Contributing Writer As we kick off Day 2 of the WTA Championships in Istanbul, here are a few numbers—odds and ends, really—on the players in action today. But first let's look at today’s matches and standings: The Matches 1. Red Group: Samantha Stosur vs. Victoria Azarenka ?

VIENNA (AP) — Andrey Rublev advanced to his fifth final of the season Saturday, setting up a title match against Lorenzo Sonego at the Erste Bank Open. The fifth-seeded Rublev led, 6-4, 4-1, when Kevin Anderson pulled out of their semifinal with a right thigh issue. Rublev is 4-0 in

With all the pomp and circumstance that comes with being the defending men's singles champion at Wimbledon, there was not too much that was traditional for Carlos Alcaraz at Wimbledon on Monday as he faced 6-foot-3 qualifier Mark Lajal of Estonia. A lanky blonde with his hair pulled up into