NEW YORK (AP) A year after Melanie Oudin's surprising run to the U.S. Open quarterfinals captivated fans, there's plenty about her that's the same. She's still a bubbly teen from Marietta, Ga., prone to sprinkling sentences with the word like,'' as in,I wasn't, like, freaking out,'' which is how

LONDON (AP)—Just three days after winning the French Open for a sixth time, Rafael Nadal began his preparations for Wimbledon with a 6-4, 6-4 win over Australian qualifier Matthew Ebden in his opening match at Queen’s Club on Wednesday. The top-seeded Spaniard was never at his best, but broke in

LONDON (AP) Just three days after winning the French Open for a sixth time, Rafael Nadal began his preparations for Wimbledon with a 6-4, 6-4 win over Australian qualifier Matthew Ebden in his opening match at Queen's Club on Wednesday. The top-seeded Spaniard was never at his best, but broke

The Break: Lucas Pouille's journey back from depression

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ROME, Italy—Naomi Osaka will take much from a revitalizing week at the Internazionali BNL d’Italia, where she enjoyed her best clay-court result since 2019 and went toe-to-toe with her first Top 10 opponent of her comeback from maternity leave. “I'll learn that the level's not that different,” she said despite

• Stefanos Tsitsipas sailed through his Open Parc Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Lyon opener, knocking out American Tommy Paul, 6-1, 6-4. The No. 2 seed played near-flawless tennis as he makes the most of a last chance to prepare for Roland Garros, securing victory in 75 minutes on Center Court. Tsitsipas leads world

With no Roger Federer or Rafael Nadal in the draw, it seemed no one could beat the 17-time major champion but himself at this year's US Open. The tennis world was left in utter disbelief.

PARIS—Court 1 at Roland Garros is called the Bullring because of its circular shape. By the midpoint of Alexander Zverev and Dusan Lajovic’s second-round match on Wednesday, the name also felt appropriate for what was happening inside the arena. To the surprise of most, the bull on this occasion had

It's time to start asking the obvious: What's happened to Jelena Jankovic this year? You can understand a couple of early season losses, as well as the difficulty of living up to being No. 1 for the first time in Australia. You can even understand a loss to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova,

This week I'm discussing the 2006 season, and looking forward to 2007, with ex-pro and expert analyst Hank Moravec (also known as Dunlop Maxply here and at Tennis World). Steve, I could go off on a pretty long tangent about what its like to continue to play tennis after a

MELBOURNE—This was the first day of the year’s first Grand Slam, but it wasn't long before it took on a familiar feel. By early afternoon, Ernests Gulbis had dynamited a racquet. Tomas Berdych had debuted “the shirt heard round the world,” an ultra-loud blue-striped number that could have been stolen

NEW YORK—“France is my home,” Gael Monfils told the audience in Arthur Ashe Stadium after his 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 quarterfinal win over Lucas Pouille on Tuesday. “But here is second.” Monfils has spoken before of his love for New York City. In 2014, when he last reached the quarterfinals at

MADRID (AP) — Rafael Nadal was concerned going into his first match at the Madrid Open. He lost practice time ahead of the tournament because of a stomach virus and didn't know exactly how his body would react when he stepped onto the "Magic Box" center court on Wednesday. But

Maria Sharapova looks the same, shrieks the same, and still has the trademark tenacity that is so sorely lacking among many of the women on the WTA Tour. Unfortunately, Sharapova no longer has the deadly serve that helped her win three major titles. Will she ever get it back? It’s

NEW YORK (AP)—Novak Djokovic fought off the stifling heat and one of his Davis Cup teammates in a harder-than-expected first-round win at the U.S. Open on Tuesday. The third-seeded Serb beat countryman Viktor Troicki 6-3, 3-6, 2-6, 7-5, 6-3 in a 3-hour, 40-minute match in Arthur Ashe Stadium, where temperatures

During those days of self-doubt when Andrea Petkovic was suffering knee and back injuries that knocked her off the tour and dropped her ranking to No. 162, she poured out her pain writing poetry — and came to a catharsis. "I'm writing a poem, and I'm like I'm a genius,

NEW YORK (AP) At 19, Jared Donaldson is the youngest American man in the U.S. Open's third round since 2007. A key part of his growth as a tennis player happened in another country, though. When he was 14, Donaldson left home to train in Argentina, so he could work

PARIS (AP) — If Andy Murray is to take Novak Djokovic's No. 1 ranking at the Paris Masters this week, he must play significantly better than he did in a scrappy win against Fernando Verdasco in the second round on Wednesday. Murray becomes No. 1 if he wins the tournament

MONACO (AP) — As the first men's tennis player in the Open era to win the same title 10 times, Rafael Nadal showed Sunday he's likely the best ever on clay after easily beating Albert Ramos-Vinolas 6-1, 6-3 in an all-Spanish final at the Monte Carlo Masters. It was Nadal's