The 2024 tennis season was filled with noteworthy stories, breakthrough moments, and countless trophy lifts. But what were the best matches of the year that was? We rolled the tape, and this week, TENNIS.com is counting down some of the best WTA matches of the past year (with our ATP

WIMBLEDON, England(AP) Venus and Serena Williams crossed paths in the locker room at the All England Club, something the sisters often do during the second week of the grass-court Grand Slam tournament. This meeting came midway through the Wimbledon quarterfinals, and they paused to chat. Serena was about to play

WATCH: Sunday's WTA Finals round robin action concluded with Garbiñe Muguruza snapping Anett Kontaveit's 12-match winning streak to bump Karolina Pliskova out of semifinal contention.

Angelique Kerber has built a Hall of Fame resume as a deceptive aggressor who masquerades as a counterpuncher. Like a shrewd defense lawyer, the left-handed Kerber deftly navigates her way through the discovery phase, assesses the opposition’s evidence, and then, strand by strand, refutes those arguments, eventually turning the tables.

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) Top-seeded Maria Sharapova was knocked out of Wimbledon on Monday, losing 6-4, 6-3 to Sabine Lisicki in the fourth round just a month after completing a career Grand Slam. Lisicki, a 15th-ranked German, outplayed the 2004 Wimbledon champion in the wind and rain on Court 1 for

Highlights: Anhelina Kalinina tops Emma Raducanu in Madrid

We're counting down the Top 10 matches of 2020 from Nov. 30 through Dec. 11. Click here to read each selection. Motherhood was one of the themes of this year’s US Open, and the storyline peaked with this semifinal between Serena Williams (mother to Alexis Olympia Ohanian, Jr.) and Victoria

KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. (AP) — Roger Federer lost his second consecutive match and the No. 1 ranking Saturday. Big-serving Australian Thanasi Kokkinakis, a qualifier ranked 175th, rallied to upset Federer 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (4) at the Miami Open. The 36-year-old Federer had been the oldest No. 1 man ever, but

NEW YORK—To close out a tennis match versus someone you’ve never beaten is one of the toughest tasks in sports. Doesn’t matter if it’s at the park on Sunday morning with no one watching or inside Arthur Ashe Stadium in front of the world. Then there’s doing that versus Roger

NEW YORK (AP) No reason for any extra practice after this performance by Serena Williams. Plus, it's not as if she needs to study too hard to figure out how to deal with her next opponent. Playing the best she during this U.S. Open as she chases a calendar-year Grand

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) -- Tennis fans learned two things about Rafael Nadal. He doesn't like sleep or math. The 14-time Grand Slam winner advanced Friday to the fourth round of the Australian Open, beating Dudi Sela in straight sets. He expended much less time and energy than he had in

NEW YORK (AP) Mardy Fish's last U.S. Open memory will be of the Louis Armstrong Stadium crowd roaring for him. Failing to serve out the match, his legs cramping badly at the end - those details are less important than the fact he was there, playing all out and pushing

WIMBLEDON, England(AP) Andy Roddick slumped forward in his changeover chair, hands covering his grass-stained baseball cap, stung by his third loss in a Wimbledon final, all to Roger Federer. This one was quite unlike the others, in 2004 and 2005: This one ended 16-14 in the fifth set, a test

Naomi Osaka’s comeback tour made a triumphant return to Tennis Paradise on Thursday; the 2018 BNP Paribas Open champion shook off a slow start to defeat Sara Errani, 6-3, 6-1, to reach the second round. A former world No. 1, Osaka is playing her fifth tournament since leaving the tour

Iga Swiatek vs. Maria Sakkari The Pole and the Greek haven’t played since they met in the final in Indian Wells in 2022. That’s a day Swiatek will want to remember on Sunday, and Sakkari will want to forget—at least not obsess over. Swiatek won the title going away, 6-4,

NEW YORK (AP) A year after one of the most significant and stunning losses of Serena Williams' illustrious career, she's made it back to the same stage of the same tournament: the U.S. Open semifinals. The stakes and opponent are different. Once again, there is history in the offing. At

It wasn't the University of Maryland-Baltimore County beating the University of Virginia. Not by a long shot. But unseeded Naomi Osaka nonetheless stunned the top seed in a very big tournament—Simona Halep, at the BNP Paribas Open—in a lopsided result that will leave fans talking a day later. When Osaka

The odds will surely be shortening on Tomas Berdych making a deep run at Roland Garros, but nobody in their right mind would bet against Rafael Nadal there, or today in Rome, after a sublime 6-4, 7-5 victory over the Czech in which Rafa struck 34 winners for just 10

Like too many in professional sports, Fernando Verdasco is known more for his losses than his wins. If the image of the Spaniard’s Calvin Klein underwear ad isn’t burned into your brain, you’re likely to recall his five-set loss to Rafael Nadal at the 2009 Australian Open as his defining

SHANGHAI (AP)—Roger Federer routed No. 5-ranked Robin Soderling 6-1, 6-1 in the Shanghai Masters quarterfinals on Friday. Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray also cruised into the semifinals, while unseeded Juan Monaco of Argentina took nearly three hours to oust Jurgen Melzer of Austria, who beat top-ranked Rafael Nadal on Thursday.