So what are the chances that you go 0-for-your-first-13 break points and still end up winning a best-of-three set tennis match? Not very good—unless the guy on the other side of the net is Mikhail Youzhny or someone with an equally unstable game. Juan Carlos Ferrero can tell you all

From Wimbledon to Washington, from grass courts to hard, Elina Svitolina is turning the tide on a once-one-sided rivalry with Victoria Azarenka. Coming into the season’s third major, Azarenka held a 5-0 lead over Svitolina in their head-to-head. But in the span of four weeks, the Ukrainian has added two

PARIS—“You’re welcome.” It’s not the way I’d typically begin a conversation with a professional tennis player, but then again, not many professional tennis players have written me a thank-you note. The one who did wrote words of appreciation not on stationary from a bureau, or on a cocktail napkin from

MONTPELLIER, France (AP)—Florian Mayer of Germany beat Gilles Muller of Luxembourg 7-6 (3), 6-3 Monday to reach the second round of the Open Sud de France. The sixth-seeded Mayer saved seven break points in the first set to force a tiebreaker, then broke for a 3-1 lead in the second.

MARSEILLE, France (AP)—Nikolay Davydenko hit nine aces and did not face a single break point as he beat Andreas Beck of Germany 6-1, 7-5 Tuesday to reach the second round of the Open 13. Davydenko, a semifinalist at the ABN Amro World Tennis final in Rotterdam last week, broke Beck’s

WUHAN, China (AP) — French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko beat Wimbledon champion Garbine Muguruza 1-6, 6-3, 6-2 in the Wuhan Open quarterfinals on Thursday. Ostapenko came from a break down in the deciding set, winning the last five games to beat Muguruza for the first time and a world No.

The night crowd at the Miami Open semifinal roared with applause when 18-time major winner Roger Federer squeaked past the mercurial Nick Kyrgios 7-6 (11), 6-7 (11), 7-6 (7). Three tiebreakers and over three hours of drama led to breathtaking takeaways on Twitter.

Sunscreen dripping from his face, Roger Federer lunged for a lob volley to extend a point before soaring to snap off a smash and seal the opening break of the final set. On a scorching day, the four-time Australian Open champion launched the Fed-berg era showing life in his legs,

As far as their places in the game go, Tomas Berdych and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga have a lot of similarities. They’re both 28, they’ve both reached one major final, and they’ve both spent the last few years trying, and not succeeding, to break the Big 4’s stranglehold on the game. But

You don’t usually see a clue in the very first game of a match that reveals so much about what’s to come, but that was the case Thursday night, when Roger Federer played Novak Djokovic in the Australian Open semifinals. On a break point at 30-40, Djokovic engaged Federer in

MONACO (AP) Rafael Nadal was prepared for pain. Roger Federer hoped to avoid pain. They got what they wished for and reached the Monte Carlo Masters quarterfinals on Thursday. Eight-time champion Nadal saved 15 of 17 break points, scampering all over the clay to retrieve big forehands from Dominic Thiem

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The Australian Open set a Grand Slam single-day attendance record on Wednesday, with 66,154 people coming through the gates. But 45 of those spectators found themselves leaving early, ejected by police for disruptive behaviour. A total of about 70 people have been kicked out during the first three days of