TOKYO (AP) — Jordan Thompson upset ninth-ranked Alexander Zverev, 6-3, 6-4, in the opening round of the Japan Open on Monday for his second win over a Top 10 opponent this season. The 29-year-old Australian saved four of the five break points he faced to claim his first career win

Aryna Sabalenka is at home in Miami gearing up for the last push of the WTA Tour season, but the world No. 1 is still in high demand on and off the court. A day after posting up a storm on Instagram showing off her new ride—a dreamy blue Lamborghini

Stan Wawrinka [3] vs. Pablo Carreño Busta [21] Don’t look now, but Stan is having another one of his refuse-to-lose runs. This is his first trip to the semifinals at Indian Wells in 10 tries, and he’s done it in style, with back-to-back third-set tiebreaker victories over Yoshihito Nishioka and

TENNIS.com's Monday morning quarterback recaps last week's pro tennis action—and offers his reaction. Last Week's Tournaments

While many openly gay women have populated the WTA Tour's ranks over time, rarely has an "out" man appeared on the ATP World Tour. Whether active or retired, professionals on the men's circuit simply haven't stepped forward, for the most part, to serve as poster boys, role models or whatever

As the New York Times reports, approximately 11,000 athletes competed in the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro over the past fortnight. (Can we say that word away from Wimbledon?) Of those sportspeople, "at least 120 have served suspensions or had to return medals for doping and were reinstated for

The pattern was there: Robin Soderling ended Rafael Nadal's four-year reign at Roland Garros in 2009, prevented Roger Federer from reaching his 24th consecutive Grand Slam semifinal in Paris last season, and had a chance to end Novak Djokovic's 36-match unbeaten streak today in Rome. It was a headline-writer's dream

Somewhere, John Isner and Nicolas Mahut are sighing. Tennis superfan Andy Samberg, he of Saturday Night Live digital shorts and Brooklyn Nine-Nine hilarity, has made a Wimbledon-centric film. 7 Days in Hell, as it's seemingly titled by actor Will Forte within the film's trailer, tells of a knock-down, dragout 2004

Donna Vekic is adding a Grand Slam-winning coach to her team in 2025. The Croatian announced on social media this week that she's begun working with Sascha Bajin after a two-year revival under the tutelage of Nikola Horvat and International Tennis Hall of Famer Pam Shriver. After ending two straight

MATCH POINT: McNally and Gauff make winning start at Western & Southern Open

MELBOURNE—On Tuesday, 17-year-old Destanee Aiava faced world No. 1 Simona Halep inside Rod Laver Arena and she looked like she’d been there before. It’s because she has. “She played without thinking, without emotions,” Halep said. “She was not afraid of anything so she was hitting very strong and very well.

Andy Murray came out of his service stance and stared up at the retractable roof, where a bird was squawking. It kept squawking. He banged his strings off his palm, unhappy with the tension, and sent a couple of defective racquets off to be restrung. A few points after picking

I took the back way from Hisense to the press room the other day, past some empty side courts and in between a couple of seemingly abandoned buildings. There was no one around, until I turned a corner and saw a man and woman about 50 feet away, at the

103159585 by Pete Bodo Howdy. Isn't in nice to have the Bank of the West Classic at Stanford to kick around, in a good way? It's always good news when the WTA produces a sub-major tournament with story lines that crackle and sizzle like a downed power line. Any number

Like many of you, I flicked on the TV to watch the all-important doubles rubber in the U.S. vs. Romania clash at La Jolla, Ca., on Saturday. I figured it was a good chance to catch up and see how the Bryan brothers, Mike and Bob, are playing. After all,

Is there a way to be confidently un-confident? That’s the question hovering over the head of Rafael Nadal as the European clay-court season begins. For most players, it will be a long and leisurely journey to the grand finale in Paris. For the five-time defending French Open champion, it may

You all know by now that Gloria Connors died on January 8th, at age 82, in the town where her famous son, Jimmy, was raised, Belleville, Ill. I chose the title of this post because the first, full-flower demonstration of Gloria Connors's vision and wisdom as a tennis coach was

Ed. Note - Miguel "I play like Federer, except I have forehand drop shot, too" Seabra, TennisWorld's Spiritual Advisor, is back in the mix with a report from the Tour of Champions event in the lovely precincts of the Valley of the Wolf, Vale do Lobo, Portugal. Seems to me

WATCH: Studies show the communal aspects of tennis may have greater benefits than previously believed.

102037426 by Pete Bodo It's entirely possible that we'll see an American player in the final of Wimbledon; there's no news in that. But it won't necessarily be Andy Roddick, and that does qualify as noteworthy. Roddick has been in three Wimbledon finals—all of them ending in ruin at the