MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The Latest from the Australian Open on Friday (all times local): 11:30 p.m. French Open champion Garbine Muguruza has advanced to the fourth round of the Australian Open with a 6-4, 6-2 win over Anastasia Sevastova. The pair had played twice before — both on hardcourts

WATCH: Azarenka spoke about a need for tennis to show unity following her Citi Open match against Ukraine's Dayana Yastremska.

MELBOURNE—It was an ear-stinging, skin-scalding day here on Tuesday, a day when you wished there was no breeze, because all it did was send the 105-degree heat flying straight into your face. Fans doused themselves with water and stood for hours in the shade, even if it meant seeing no

No matter how dramatic the events of the previous 12 days may have been, it’s the final weekend of a Slam that sticks in the mind and rings in the ears. As time goes on and history is written, the finals end up representing everything that led up to them—in

“We Will Rock You” was blaring from the loudspeakers. Luke Jensen was waving his arms and firing up the crowd. The socially-distanced fans were cheering through their masks. After nearly a month inside a coronavirus-free bubble at The Greenbrier in West Virginia, the 2020 World Team-Tennis season had come down

During the spring European clay-court season, much like during the fall European indoor circuit, the topic de jour invariably becomes the calendar and its flaws, which leads to a host of vaguely interrelated complaints and accusations against the Lords of Tennis. Rafael Nadal's recent outspokenness on this subject was the

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The Latest from the Australian Open on Monday (all times local): 11:55 p.m. Eugenie Bouchard was late starting her first-round match, so didn't waste any time in beating American Louisa Chirico 6-0, 6-4 in 56 minutes. The pair didn't begin play until nearly 11 p.m. on

We’ve heard for years that the French Open is the toughest tournament to win. But what about the U.S. Open? It’s not on clay, it doesn’t require as many hours of work, but it does require that you play in two entirely different sets of conditions in each week, from

NEW YORK (AP) Even Rafael Nadal felt compelled to applaud when his second-round opponent at the U.S. Open hit a spectacular, full-sprint winner and was left doing the splits at the net. The shot put Denis Istomin within two points of tying the match at a set apiece. He couldn't

BASEL, Switzerland (AP) — Felix Auger-Aliassime won his third straight title in October, beating Holger Rune 6-3, 7-5 in the Swiss Indoors final on Sunday. Auger-Aliassime went through his five matches at Basel without dropping serve, and he saved all three break points Rune had. The ninth-ranked Auger-Aliassime added the

WATCH: Elena Rybakina defeats Iga Swiatek in the 2023 BNP Paribas Open semifinals.

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The upsets kept coming at Wimbledon on Tuesday as two-time champion Petra Kvitova, a popular pre-tournament champion pick, lost to 50th-ranked Aliaksandra Sasnovich in the first round. Not only does Kvitova have tremendous history at Wimbledon, lifting the Venus Rosewater Dish in 2011 and 2014, but she also came into

BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) — Elina Svitolina suggested she might withdraw from Wimbledon after a surprise second-round loss at the Aegon Classic on Thursday. Svitolina, ranked fifth and the Classic's leading seed after a host of withdrawals, was beaten by Italian qualifier Camila Giorgi 6-4, 4-6, 6-2. Giorgi has played three

Court Report: United States vs. Croatia Davis Cup semifinal preview

Well, that last post went well, don’t you think? Thanks for all the jibber-jabber. I welcome it, except the comments about me being fat. Not true, in case anyone was wondering. Also, I don’t have kids, I didn’t go to SW19 this time around, and I would make a horrible

Retirement: The subject all players think about but none like to talk about. It’s the specter that looms over practice courts and locker rooms, the shadow that grows darker as the years tick by and the injuries mount. For many tennis players, the financial challenges of life after professional tennis

WATCH: Auger-Aliassime's search for a first ATP title came to an end in Rotterdam on Sunday after a win over Stefanos Tsitsipas.

Historically, the desert double in Doha and Dubai has been a mellow watch. The two tournaments come after the early, dual-gender, Grand Slam energy in Australia has dissipated, and before it picks up again when the tours come back together in Indian Wells in March. For a certain type of

Rafael Nadal, out of action with damaged knees since Wimbledon, doesn’t know exactly when he’ll be back in fighting trim, and furthermore doesn’t seem to feel that a great deal has changed since he left the tour to do “very conservative” rehab on his tendinitis-plagued knees. Via conference call, Nadal