NEW YORK (AP) A year ago at the U.S. Open, American teenager Melanie Oudin told the world to ``BELIEVE,'' with her sneakers and her play. Among those she motivated: Beatrice Capra, an 18-year-old from Ellicott City, Md., and a wild-card entry who is following in Oudin's footsteps at Flushing Meadows,

Over November 29-December 3 and December 6-10, we'll run down our Top 10 Matches of the 2021 season. No. 10 | No. 9 | No. 8 | No. 7 | No. 6

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — To get an idea of just how new the whole international pro tennis thing is to Ben Shelton, the 20-year-old NCAA champion from the University of Florida about to make his Australian Open debut, consider this: He says he is using a passport for the first

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — It took about a week for Novak Djokovic to go from worrying about whether he simply could play a match at all on his injured left hamstring to thinking he can win the Australian Open. And one pain-free, nearly perfect performance in the fourth round Monday

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A four-year absence of elite women's tennis in China is set to end with the Women's Tennis Association holding seven tournaments in the next six weeks as part of the tour's Asian swing. After tournaments in China were cancelled due to COVID-19 travel restrictions in 2020, the WTA suspended events

One look at the top of the WTA rankings should be enough to let anyone know that opportunity will be knocking at Wimbledon this year. World No. 1 Ash Barty is recovering from a hip injury and hasn’t played on grass this year. No. 2 Naomi Osaka withdrew from the

LONDON (AP) — Simona Halep was ready for a vacation. It's going to start a week earlier than she wanted after she gave away a big lead, wasted a match point and lost at Wimbledon, joining the procession of top women on the way out. Ranked and seeded No. 1,

“She’s just not able to win the big points,” said Roland Garros commentator Barry Cowan during Naomi Osaka’s match versus Katerina Siniakova on Saturday. If you hadn’t watched any of this third-round contest, or followed the scores, you would have assumed he was referring to Osaka. That’s what No. 1

Watch the Racquet Bracket Show on Tennis Channel on Friday, May 26 at 9 PM ET—then test your skills and play the Racquet Bracket game for the men's and women's draws. ED MCGROGAN, SENIOR EDITOR: Venus Williams It took 14 years for Venus to return to the Australian Open final,

WATCH—Championship point from Kuznetsova's win over Vekic in D.C.:

When Daniil Medvedev is on autopilot, is there anyone who can shut him down? We’ll find out if world No. 1 Novak Djokovic—a champion with his own zen-sational capabilities—has a yes answer come Sunday, after Medvedev reached his first Australian Open final with a 6-4, 6-2, 7-5 victory over Stefanos

This year marks the 50th anniversary of TENNIS Magazine's founding in 1965. To commemorate the occasion, we'll look back each Thursday at one of the 50 moments that have defined the last half-century in our sport. By 2014, TENNIS Magazine had been covering the sport for 50 years. That fall,

NEW YORK (AP) — There are those who think Maria Sharapova shouldn't even be in the U.S. Open via a wild-card invitation, because what dropped her ranking out of the top 100 was not an injury but a 15-month suspension for doping. "You have to work for it, you know,

The final round of Australian Open qualifying came to a thrilling conclusion on Wednesday, as the event played across Doha and Dubai yielded 32 men and women heading to Melbourne as main draw entrants for the 2021 edition of the tournament—set to take place in early February. Catch up with

LONDON—Magdalena Rybarikova had barely stepped off Centre Court after her upset win over Karolina Pliskova on Thursday when a TV reporter asked her the question: Can you win Wimbledon? Rybarikova threw her head back and laughed. What else could she do? The idea, before that moment, would have been, well,

Jessica Pegula may only be seven months younger than next opponent Elina Svitolina, but injury lay-offs have left the American making up for lost time in a major way since the end of 2018—culminating with a first trip to the second week of the Australian Open. “I think people still

After putting himself a game away from the French Open quarterfinals in a weather-afflicted match that began yesterday, world No. 1 Novak Djokovic stared upward at his greatest challenge: a routine overhead. The stakes weren’t as high as some other shots Djokovic has faced near the net at Roland Garros—remember

María Camila Osorio Serrano last left New York City as the US Open junior champion. Two years later, the Colombian youngster is an established member of the pro circuit, from winning her first WTA title to becoming firmly ensconced in the Top 100 after making her main-draw debuts at Roland

“We welcome the increase in prize money for the 2013 Australian Open and acknowledge the ongoing efforts of Tennis Australia to recognize the role of the players in the success of the tournament. We also look forward with confidence to continuing these successful discussions with a view to a longer-term