The Miami Open had one distinct advantage on Indian Wells over the last 14 years: the presence of Venus and Serena Williams. This year Serena took some of that edge away, but Miami will still be happy to welcome the Williamses back, Serena’s knee permitting. The upshot is that the

WATCH—Roger Federer press conference after loss to Alexander Zverev:

Steve, T-minus 26 minutes for the Manchester United-Liverpool kickoff. No novellas in store today; time is short. On with the list: The Fed: His motivation is quite simple, actually. He's out there to end the Greatest of All Time debate. And for that particular objective, he still has quite a

WATCH: Tsitsipas catches up with the Tennis Channel Live Desk after his straight-sets win over Karen Khachanov.

The 7-6 (6), 6-3 scoreline of Caroline Wozniacki’s win over Mona Barthel today sounds fairly routine, but underneath the numbers this match was as turbulent and unpredictable as the wind that swirled around the second show court in Doha. There were comebacks and chokes, easy winners and ugly misses, bad

Let’s start with who is not in Madrid this year: Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer, to name the two most famous absentees, followed by David Goffin, Gael Monfils, Milos Raonic, and Stan Wawrinka. Some are injured, some may not be enticed by the smaller prize-money purse, and some, like Djokovic

What do you we have here? An ATP draw? With names like Djokovic and Thiem and Tsitsipas and Zverev in it? Tennis fans should savor the moment. It has been a long road back for the men’s game, and it may not last, but the Western & Southern Open draw

On Wednesday, Felix Auger-Aliassime did what all famous tennis players do when they walk off the practice courts at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden: He worked the rope line like a celebrity, signing autographs and taking selfies with fans. In truth, there weren’t all that many fans there, certainly not

Another week, another teenager makes his mark on the ATP tour. The trend started with 19-year-old Nick Kyrgios’s lights-out run to the Wimbledon quarterfinals; continued last week with 17-year-old Alexander Zverev’s march to the semis in Hamburg; and has now moved to Umag, where today Croatia’s Borna Coric, also 17,

On Tuesday I finished my (belated) Tokyo preview by taking a guess at who the semifinalists would end up being. I mentioned that I should have a better than normal chance of getting at least two of them right, considering that by that stage the tournament had already reached the

Great athletes often become known for a number. Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points in a game. Hank Aaron hit 756 home runs. Jack Nicklaus won 18 majors; Roger Federer has won 17. The movie about Roger Maris was called—what else?—“61*.” But Esther Vergeer, the wheelchair tennis champion from the Netherlands

If you’ve ever wandered the grounds during the second week of a Grand Slam, when the legends take over the side courts, you know that in tennis, talent is forever. Power will go, consistency will go, footwork and speed will definitely go. But the shots remain the same. More than

Can a match be called predictable if one player, seemingly barely able to move his hitting arm at the start, loses the first set 6-0, wins the second 6-3, goes down 0-5 in the third, comes back to lead 6-5, but finally loses in a tiebreaker after squandering three match

We're counting down the Top 10 matches of 2020 from Nov. 30 through Dec. 11. Click here to read each selection. I know what you’re thinking: “This match happened in 2020?” Yes, Roger Federer’s Houdini-like run to the semifinals at the Australian Open happened this year. Like everything else that

PRAGUE (AP) — Canada won the decisive doubles to upset defending champion France 2-1 in the Billie Jean King Cup finals on Monday. Spain staged a comeback to beat Slovakia 2-1 for the first time after two losses, including the 2002 final. Also, the Czech Republic prevailed in the doubles

ROME (AP) — Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal had starkly different days at the Italian Open on Saturday. Djokovic regained his cool after throwing his racket off the court in a grueling, rain-delayed quarterfinal victory over Stefanos Tsitsipas by 4-6, 7-5, 7-5, then was to play his semifinal later against

NEW YORK (AP) — A glance at the U.S. Open, the last Grand Slam tennis tournament of 2021: SURFACE Hard courts. SITE USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows.

MASON, Ohio (AP)—Maria Sharapova shook off a lackluster second set and beat fellow Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-4, 1-6, 6-2 on Tuesday in the first round of the Cincinnati Women’s Open. Kuznetsova moved to No. 14 in the rankings after winning in San Diego last week, one above Sharapova, but Sharapova

PARIS (AP)—Francesca Schiavone threw uppercuts, put her fists to her face and skipped about the court. And then, when she had won the French Open, she really let her emotions show. With the performance of a lifetime, Schiavone became the first Italian woman to win a Grand Slam title by

NEWPORT, R.I. (AP)—Nicolas Mahut walked onto the shadowless center court at the International Tennis Hall of Fame, where temperatures were into the 90s and still climbing, and thought, as he frequently does, about Wimbledon. “Nothing is worse than what I did in Wimbledon. Every match, I pray it will be