MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP)—Andy Roddick knows a number that sounds even better than reaching his 50th career ATP tournament final. “Better than 50 finals would be 30 wins,” Roddick said Saturday. “I think that’s what I have ahead of me. Certainly a pretty big number. Not sure how many guys have

MELBOURNE—Where to begin in appraising Ashleigh Barty’s 4-6, 6-1, 6-4 round-of-16 win over Maria Sharapova? Perhaps start at the end; more accurately, the near-end. Yes, that will be the place to dig into what happened in the best women’s match of the tournament to date. Sharapova served at 0-4 in

The beeps and bleeps from the loudspeakers begin as the players walk from the locker room to the court. There, the crowd is waiting, and lights are flashing and swirling in the darkness. A countdown begins on the big screens above—"10-9-8-7...”—as the beeps turn to beats and the music gains

On This Day in Tennis History is an exhaustively informative 500-page book by Randy Walker that does exactly what it’s say it’s going to do: Tell you everything of note that happened in the history of tennis, from January 1 to December 31. And, yes, that includes the sometimes-day of

So far the Rome Masters has lived up to the nickname of its host city—some things about the tournament really are eternal. The blank-eyed Mussolini-era statues are still comically creepy. The sunken second stadium, with its fierce-looking rectangle of red clay, still links the tournament to the ancient idea of

LONDON -- From the lawns of Wimbledon to the lochs of Scotland, all of Britain can celebrate. Andy Murray made it possible Sunday, winning his country's hallowed tennis tournament to become the first British man in 77 years to raise the trophy at the All England Club. Yes, this was

by Pete Bodo So there they were again, Venus and Serena Williams, just as they were in the recent Wimbledon final, just as they have been for pretty much as many years as the two of them have known. They stood ready to play again, to pull and push and

ANDY RODDICK WILL TURN 26 during the first week of the U.S. Open. But as Boris Becker famously observed, you measure a tennis player’s life in “dog years,” so it’s hardly surprising that Roddick sometimes waxes sentimental and savors his memories, separating the wheat of satisfaction from the chaff of

MONACO (AP) Six-time defending champion Rafael Nadal advanced to the quarterfinals of the Monte Carlo Masters by defeating Richard Gasquet 6-2, 6-4 on Thursday. The top-ranked Spaniard broke the 13th-seeded Frenchman's serve twice in each set, as he extended his winning streak at the clay-court tournament to 34 matches. ``In

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PARIS (AP) The nearly 15,000 tennis fans holding a ticket for Court Philippe Chatrier on Monday should consider themselves particularly fortunate. There's quite a lineup, with Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova - owners of a combined 49 Grand Slam singles titles - all scheduled to play

Coco Gauff and Jessica Pegula booked their spots in the fourth round of the China Open for the first time with a pair of contrasting wins on Sunday at the WTA 1000 event. No. 2 seed Pegula defeated Veronika Kudermetova for the first time in three career meetings, 6-7(9), 6-1,

As the players make the long, rushed journey from the Olympics to the U.S. Open this week, it seems an opportune moment to reflect on the first player to win those two events in the same year. This was Steffi Graf, of course, the owner of the most remorselessly successful

201206301724626423926-p2@stats.comby Pete Bodo **WIMBLEDON, England—The perverse part of me had hoped that at the stroke of 11 p.m. last night, a borough of Merton bureaucrat with a terribly British-sounding accent would come on the PA system and to declare that the battle between Andy Murray and Marcos Baghdatis—by that point

NEW YORK—“I love watching Monfils, but he’s a knucklehead”: these words were stated, in disgusted admiration, by a reporter sitting in the row behind me in the U.S. Open press room today. 81: Number of winners hit by Gael Monfils in his five-set, 4 hour, 48 minute loss to Juan

NEW YORK (AP) Blister on his foot? Not to worry. Another match that got too close for comfort at times? That didn't bother Rafael Nadal, either. The defending champion defeated David Nalbandian 7-6 (5), 6-1, 7-5 at the U.S. Open on Sunday to move to the fourth round. Early in

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Andrey Rublev beat wild-card entry Dominic Thiem 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 on Tuesday to advance to the second round of the Australian Open. Thiem, a runner-up at the Australian Open in 2020 and the U.S. Open winner the same year, missed much of 2021 due to injuries

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The WTA’s $8 million China Open returns to Beijing for the first time since 2019. Iga Swiatek and Aryna Sabalenka will pick up their race for No. 1, and Coco Gauff will play her first match as a major champion. China Open - Beijing - $8,127,389; WTA 1000 - Hard

The French fans have been the opposite of encouraging nine-time champion Rafael Nadal. (AP Photo) Even without looking at the TV screen, you can tell a French Open audience by the particular sounds it makes. Most famous are the rising cries of “Allleezzzz!!!” from the peanut gallery. The crowd in