WATCH: From match point down, Alcaraz proved he is every bit the contender for Roland Garros glory everyone believed him to be.

For some top players - including the World No. 1 - luck wasn’t fully on their side at the French Open draw ceremony on Thursday. Here are five of the toughest men’s first rounders in Paris this year: 1. (1) Novak Djokovic Vs Hubert Hurkacz After an excellent last few

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The Americans are coming: Jessica Pegula and Coco Gauff were the winners of the two biggest women’s US Open tune-up events, in Montreal and Cincinnati. Can these doubles partners take the next step and make it to the final weekend at the Open itself? Or will the three Europeans at

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NEW YORK—“I was completely done.” That’s how Alexander Zverev described how he felt in the fourth set of his fourth-round match with Jannik Sinner on Monday night at the US Open. At that point, Zverev had played for more than three hours in humid, 80-degree-plus conditions. He had watched the

Is men’s tennis making a transition from one generation to the next? I’ll believe it when Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal stop combining to win three Grand Slam titles per season. But after what we saw this weekend, Laver Cup certainly seems to be undergoing a changing of the guard.

Will an unseeded player walk away with the trophy in Guadalajara? It’s a strong possibility at the WTA 1000 event, with five advancing to the quarterfinals and one guaranteed to play for the title in the top half of the draw. That result was assured when Martina Trevisan rallied Wednesday

You might think that, at his point in his long career, Novak Djokovic wouldn’t be able to prove his regular observers wrong. By now, who would dare to doubt that he can do anything on a tennis court, no matter what age he happens to be? But Djokovic proved me

MALAGA, Spain (AP) — Novak Djokovic became the outright most successful Serbian player in the history of the Davis Cup as he took his nation to the semifinals for the second time in three years with his 21st straight singles victory on Thursday. The top-ranked Djokovic beat Cameron Norrie 6-4,

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Andrey Rublev felt like his Australian Open first-round match against Thiago Seyboth Wild was going to end just like his friend Daniil Medvedev's did at the French Open last year against the clean-hitting Brazilian. After wasting four match points in the 12th game of the fifth

The first round comes to a close on Day 3, which means the sport’s two youngest superstars, Iga Swiatek and Carlos Alcaraz, will finally take a bow in Rod Laver Arena. Iga goes first at noon; Carlitos goes last in the evening session. Here’s a look ahead at their matches,

On Tuesday, March 1, the second half of the Sunshine Double kicks off with WTA action at the Miami Open. This tournament is played at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla. Last year, Petra Kvitova earned a straight-set win over Elena Rybakina in the final of this event, but

MIAMI—Roger Federer and Tom Brady, fellow sporting methuselahs, have been compared to each other for years. But the Miami Open has given us a rare chance to see one of them perform on the other’s turf. Brady has been coming to this city to lead his New England Patriots against

From their shots, to their grins, to their words, to their winning results, Madison Keys and Garbiñe Muguruza looked and sounded like tennis-playing twins on Sunday. “It’s definitely been a really great week for me,” a beaming Keys said after her 7-6 (5), 6-3 win over Caroline Wozniacki in the

As Rafael Nadal prepares to play what may be his final Roland Garros, we look back at the 10 matches that made him the undisputed King of Clay. MATCH 2: 2004 Davis Cup, final: Nadal d. Andy Roddick, 6-7 (6), 6-2, 7-6 (6), 6-2

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Tennis matches don’t come much harder-fought, better-played, or closely-contested than Iga Swiatek’s 7-5, 4-6, 7-6 (7) win over Aryna Sabalenka in the final of the Mutua Madrid Open on Saturday. The rivalry between these two had been building, in stop and start fashion, since their first meeting three years ago.

“Having Venus and Serena at the top is a huge value,” says Martin Blackman, the head of the USTA Player Development program. “They set the highest standard, and I think you can see that in the development of a player like Madison Keys.” What Blackman meant was that, when it

LONDON—Sometimes tennis just takes over. That’s what happened Wednesday, when Johanna Konta and Donna Vekic commanded Centre Court for more than three hours on a scorching afternoon. There were other, bigger names on the schedule for the day: Rafael Nadal, Andy Murray, Victoria Azarenka, Venus Williams. But all of them