MELBOURNE, Australia(AP) An injured Andy Roddick lost his quarterfinal match at the Australian Open on Tuesday, continuing his singles title drought in majors and that of a country that has been starved of a men's Grand Slam title for more than six years. The seventh-seeded Roddick was beaten 7-6 (4),

PARIS (AP) Roger Federer came to the French Open a little bit under the radar, more than happy to let the world's focus land squarely on someone else for a while. The way the 16-time Grand Slam champion is playing at Roland Garros, though, that's quickly starting to change -

MASON, Ohio (AP) — Rafael Nadal and Karolina Pliskova — the No. 1 seeds in the Western & Southern Open — advanced with straight-set wins Wednesday, while the rest of their brackets suffered more top losses. Nadal sat out an hour-long rain delay and beat Richard Gasquet 6-3, 6-4 on

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) -- Maria Sharapova claimed her 34th career title and closed the gap on the No. 1 ranking with a 6-7 (4), 6-3, 6-3 win over Ana Ivanovic on Saturday in the Brisbane International final. Top-seeded Sharapova raced to a 4-1 lead and had set points in the

LONDON (AP) The Latest from Wimbledon (all times local): 8:50 p.m. The rapper Drake has taken flack for appearing to be a front-runner when it comes to choosing sides in sports. So maybe it's fitting that he's in Serena Williams' corner at Wimbledon. Drake has been sitting in or near

She had talked the talk, but could Eugenie Bouchard walk the walk? The chances seemed slim in Madrid on Monday. Last month, Bouchard had boldly stated her opinion that Maria Sharapova, once a role model of hers, should be banned from the game after her 2016 doping offense. But Bouchard

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MADRID (AP) — Before any matches were played, Elias Ymer didn't hesitate to say Sweden could succeed at the Davis Cup Finals despite being one of the lowest-ranked nations in the competition. He backed up his words with a great opening win on Thursday, then cheered on his brother Mikael

Head-to-Head: Williams lead 7-1 Centre Court is not the squared circle, but Victoria Azarenka's last trip inside the lines with Serena Williams at a major left her feeling like she'd spent a few rounds on the ropes. "It's painful. To have somebody just going at you like that, it's a

MIAMI, Fla.—For a long time on this chilly, breezy evening on Key Biscayne, Kei Nishikori looked like a boy sent to do a man’s job. It wasn’t just his relatively small stature (he’s 5-foot-10) in a game increasingly dominated by bigger specimens, his sloped shoulders, or even the way that,

PARIS—This was entirely familiar territory for the perspicacious Simona Halep. Confronting a determined Sloane Stephens in the final here at Roland Garros, the Romanian must have wondered whether the tennis gods were frowning down upon her again. Twice she had been beaten in title-round contests at the French Open, falling

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP)—It’s not as rowdy without Serena around, but if Venus Williams thinks she has a better chance of winning her first Australian Open because her little sister is not here, she’s not saying so. Venus Williams is seeded fifth and among the favorites in Melbourne this year in

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) It's not as rowdy without Serena around, but if Venus Williams thinks she has a better chance of winning her first Australian Open because her little sister is not here, she's not saying. Venus Williams is seeded fifth and among the favorites in Melbourne this year in

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Daniil Medvedev faced a hostile crowd and a full array of Nick Kyrgios' outbursts and tricks, and still remained calm for long enough to reach the third round at the Australian Open. The 115th-ranked Kyrgios worked up the crowd, hit 'tweeners and drop shots, mixed up

Too Soon to Panic, a memoir of the game's amateur days by Gordon Forbes, is one of the best books that tennis has inspired. Which is appropriate, because the title still serves as a useful reminder to the sport’s most fanatical followers. When it comes to the fortunes of their

INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP)—Justine Henin beat Magdalena Rybarikova, 6-2, 6-2, in the first round of the BNP Paribas Open on Wednesday. Henin, the former No. 1 who is playing in this tournament for the first time since 2006, was the top-ranked player on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour when she

HOUSTON (AP)—Ryan Sweeting made sure he didn't get too far ahead of himself in the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championship final -- and ended up leaving Japanese star Kei Nishikori behind. "I feel in the past I'd see the finish line and I'd start thinking about that," Sweeting said after

WATCH: Ashleigh Barty defeated Elena Rybakina in the 2022 Adelaide finals with this match point.

I’ve never seen so many fans screaming my name,” a slightly incredulous Jessica Pegula said after her breezy, ultra-controlled 6-2, 6-3 win over Maria Sakkari in the Guadalajara Open Akron final on Sunday. Tennis fans in the U.S. this year screamed for Serena Williams. They applauded as Danielle Collins and

TURIN, Italy (AP) — Andrey Rublev rallied to upset second-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas and reach the final four of the ATP Finals on Friday. Rublev won 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 to reach the semifinals for the first time. He will face third-seeded Casper Ruud. Novak Djokovic plays Taylor Fritz of the United