MASON, Ohio (AP)—Madison Keys accomplished something Serena Williams couldn't—beating Alize Cornet. Keys pulled off a 6-2, 6-4 win over Cornet in the first round of the Western & Southern Open on Monday. ''I don't have many complaints about today,'' the 19-year-old American said. ''I definitely played pretty well and stayed

BARCELONA, Spain—Top-ranked Rafael Nadal's clay-court struggles worsened Friday as his 41-match winning streak at the Barcelona Open ended with a three-set loss to Nicolas Almagro in the quarterfinals. Nadal was looking for his ninth title in Barcelona but lost 2-6, 7-6 (5), 6-4, a week after going out in the

Natalia Zabiiako shared footage from her upcoming China Open vlog with partner Daria Kasatkina that put tennis on ice—with a little help from 2022 Olympic champion Sui Wenjing. “Starting to remember pair skating with the incredible @wenjingsui,” Zabiiako captioned on Instagram over the weekend. “So nice to have a tiny

Naomi Osaka stands within two wins of her first WTA title in almost four years at the ASB Classic, clinching a quarterfinal comeback over Hailey Baptiste, 6-7 (2), 6-1, 6-2. “I think the key focuses that I had were just to have a lot of belief and confidence in myself.

It's been an impressive run for the United States at Roland Garros on the men's side, but the American women will try to upstage them on Monday. Coco Gauff got them off to a great start with a 6-0, 7-5 victory over No. 20 seed Ekaterina Alexandrova on Court Philippe

Australia made its decision, but opinion remains divided worldwide on Novak Djokovic and whether he should have been allowed to compete in the Australian Open despite not being vaccinated against COVID-19. At a tennis center in Phoenix on Sunday, employee Stan Taylor said the lobby was abuzz with just one

LOS ANGELES, May 11, 2021 – Tennis Channel has named the winners of its “America’s Top Coach” contest, conducted nationwide to celebrate the recent launch of its TOPSPIN viewer newsletter. Jackie Bohannon, director of tennis at the Bird Key Yacht Club in Sarasota, Fla., and John A. Richards III, the

WATCH: Swiatek's precise technique helped her compile a 37-match winning streak in addition to two Slam titles in 2022.

Everybody knows Jelena. I think she always tells me the demons in her head comes out during the match, so I completely understand. . .Probably my box wasn't that easy [either], cheering for me. Maybe she said some bad words to them, but I think they can handle it. They're

MADRID (AP) — Maria Sharapova's reward for advancing to the second round of the Madrid Open on Sunday is a match against Eugenie Bouchard, one of the most outspoken players against the Russian's return after a doping ban. Sharapova recovered from a shaky opening to defeat Mirjana Lucic-Baroni of Croatia

LONDON (AP)—Roger Federer wasn’t about to let Jo-Wilfried Tsonga pull off another improbable comeback. After a year that saw some uncharacteristic slip-ups from Federer in big matches, the Swiss star shrugged off a second-set letdown to beat Tsonga 6-3, 6-7 (6), 6-3 for a record sixth title in the ATP

WASHINGTON (AP)—By losing six consecutive points, James Blake was heading for his latest early exit from a tournament. After one particularly poor shot capped that stretch, he threw his head back and yelled. “I definitely get angry at myself, frustrated at myself. … I’m a competitor. I’m going to want

NEW YORK -- Venus Williams and Andy Roddick were just kids when they got their first taste of World Team Tennis. Williams was 8, having met WTT co-founder Billie Jean King at a clinic in Long Beach, Calif. At 17, Roddick played for the Idaho Sneakers. Now they're part owners

Most Grand Slam tennis spectators have probably witnessed wheelchair tennis first-hand: If they haven’t actually sat down and marveled at the derring-do evinced by practitioners of the sport, they’ve certainly glimpsed a match out of the corners of their eyes. Wheelchair tennis is so well-known and taken for granted that

NEW YORK (AP) -- Unable to play in the U.S. Open a year ago because of a doping suspension, Marin Cilic is now the tournament's champion. Croatia's Cilic won his first Grand Slam title by beating Japan's Kei Nishikori 6-3, 6-3, 6-3 on Monday at Flushing Meadows, using 17 aces

While all of are anxiously waiting to see if Elena Dementieva can add to her growing reputation as an ace-meister today in Stuttgart (although she'll be going up against Justine Henin), I want to share a portion of an email I had from frequent Comment poster Zola earlier today: Well,

NEW YORK (AP) -- Back on the Grand Slam stage, Eugenie Bouchard returned to her winning ways. The seventh-seeded Bouchard routed Olga Govortsova 6-2, 6-1 on Tuesday in the first round of the U.S. Open. The last time she played at a major tournament, the 20-year-old made history: the first

ROME, Italy—When Peyton Stearns learned her coaching relationship with Tom Hill had ended back in April, she took it in stride. Then she took to social media. “I wasn’t going to take to social media but due to some factors,” she said with a wink, “I took to social media.

Unstrung: Jon Wertheim on Yannick Noah's 1983 title run at Roland Garros

*Php2twg9rpm by Pete Bodo Howdy, everyone. The silence in TennisWorld is, as they say, deafening, right? It seems like just over a week ago, I was grousing about the endless season and what was shaping up as a Sharade in Shanghai, and now I'm feeling a little paranoid and darting