Murphy Jensen calls it his jumping-off point. “I had maybe a day to live,” he says. “If that.” Sequestered in a hotel on L.A.’s Sunset Strip weeks after a first-round loss at the 1999 US Open, Jensen was drinking and using drugs to excess. It was painfully clear that he

Three years ago, at an ATP Challenger event in Knoxville, TN, Marcus Willis was filmed drinking soda and eating a Snickers bar during a changeover. This summer, without a hint of irony, the London Telegraph knighted Willis as “the everyman folk hero of British tennis.” Through it all, Willis smiled.

KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. (AP) — Danielle Collins' favorite player, for as long as she can remember, has been Venus Williams. Clearly, she wasn't star-struck when facing her idol. Collins got the biggest win of her pro career Wednesday night, shocking the eighth-seeded Williams 6-2, 6-3 in the Miami Open quarterfinals.

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In July 2013, Emily Hangstefer and her doubles partner Laura Chapman were fighting for a gold medal on red clay courts in Sofia, Bulgaria. Just three years earlier, Hangstefer, a former collegiate player who has congenital sensorineural hearing loss, didn’t even know that deaf tennis tournaments existed. Now she was

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) The Williams sisters are back in the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam, and neither one is there just to watch. Venus Williams continued her impressive career resurgence at the Australian Open with a 6-3, 2-6, 6-1 win over sixth-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska on Monday night, reaching the last

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) Novak Djokovic fine-tuned his voice and his game at the Australian Open on Saturday, advancing to the fourth round with a straight-sets win over Fernando Verdasco and then urging the crowd of 15,000 to sing Happy Birthday to his mother back home. After his 7-6 (8), 6-3,

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) This was one occasion where Novak Djokovic couldn't really empathize with Andy Murray, his long-time friend. As he prepared to receive the trophy for the Australian Open winner for a fifth time in five trips to the final at Melbourne Park, Djokovic turned to Murray late Sunday

LONDON (AP) For two sets in Wimbledon's fourth round on Monday, defending champion Novak Djokovic was in serious trouble, unable to solve 6-foot-8 (2.03-meter) Kevin Anderson's big serve. Djokovic dropped both of those sets, 7-6 (6), 7-6 (6), then began working his way back into the match. He took the

PRAGUE (AP) Defending champion Czech Republic clinched its fourth Fed Cup title in five years after Karolina Pliskova and Barbora Strycova won the decisive doubles Sunday against the Russian pair of Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Elena Vesnina. The Czechs rallied to a 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 victory to take the best-of-five series

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) A veteran Spanish lefthander and a 25-year-old Chinese qualifier who nearly quit tennis last year are back in action Thursday at the Australian Open, hoping to prove that their upset wins over two of the top players in the first round were no flukes. Fernando Verdasco beat

LONDON (AP) Venus Williams has gotten this far before. Many times, in fact. It's just been a while. The five-time Wimbledon champion will be playing in the quarterfinals at the All England Club for the 12th time in her career, but the first time since 2010. ''Yeah, it's been a

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) Jack Sock needed a little time to get up to speed Friday in his first Davis Cup match. Once Sock got his serve straightened out, the U.S. raced to a 2-0 lead over Croatia in the best-of-five quarterfinal tie. Sock overcame a two-set deficit to beat Marin

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — After struggling for much of his Olympic singles quarterfinal against a Brazilian opponent backed by a raucous home crowd, Rafael Nadal finally seized control by using a big backhand to set up an easy putaway at the net for a third-set service break. Perhaps wary

PARIS (AP) It will be a fourth straight day on court for Novak Djokovic when he faces Dominic Thiem in the French Open semifinals Friday. At least he gets a change of scenery, because the top-seeded Serb plays on neighboring Court Suzanne Lenglen rather than Court Philippe Chatrier, the main

In the lead-up to Wimbledon, we're asking six burning questions—three about the men's field and three about the women's field—about the 131st edition of the Championships. Click here to read them all. Roger Federer has been incredible this season when he’s played, but he took a huge break between Miami

MADRID (AP) — Defending champion Novak Djokovic recovered from a 3-0 deficit in the third set to defeat Nicolas Almagro 6-1, 4-6, 7-5 and reach the third round at the Madrid Open on Wednesday. Djokovic rallied in the final set by breaking Almagro to go up 6-5 and served out

In 2015, Donald Young finished the year with 22 match wins, the most he’s ever had in a season. 2017 has proven to be a different story, as he already recorded victory No. 20 in the first round of the Citi Open in Washington, D.C. And he came extremely close

Each week, Tennis Channel and TENNIS.com will feature a Tough Call around a thought-provoking topic, and our panel of experts will weigh in both on-air and online. Be sure to join the discussion by voting in our polls and by commenting on Facebook and Twitter using #TennisToughCall. In this week's

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Open finalists Rafael Nadal and Kevin Anderson are both professional tennis players who were born in 1986. Not much else in common. Heading into Sunday's match — well, mismatch, apparently — Nadal owns 15 Grand Slam titles, including two at Flushing Meadows in 2010 and