NEW YORK (AP) Serena Williams now owns more victories in Grand Slam matches than anyone else in tennis' Open era, surpassing Roger Federer with her 308th. So, Serena, who'll wind up with more? ''I don't know. We'll see,'' Williams said during her on-court interview after reaching the U.S. Open quarterfinals

We hear this phrase often, yet it always seems to be forgotten whenever we try to stack the sport’s greatest players up against each other. Typically, we see these legends ranked in order of their career accomplishments—how many major titles they won, how many weeks they spent at the top,

It didn't take long for a sense of déjà vu to envelop Tuesday's second-round match between Roger Federer and Albert Ramos-Viñolas in Shanghai. You had Federer on one side of the court, and on the other you had a Spanish lefty who was determined to do whatever he could to

Stan Wawrinka vs. Roger Federer may be the closest thing the ATP has to the match-up between Serena and Venus Williams. The two friends and Swiss teammates practiced together and ate lunch together in Monte Carlo on Sunday, then went out and fought each other in the final. It was

TURIN, Italy (AP) — For the second time this year, Alexander Zverev has denied Novak Djokovic the chance to play for a big trophy. Following up his win over the top-ranked player in the semifinals of the Tokyo Olympics, Zverev beat Djokovic 7-6 (4), 4-6, 6-3 at the same stage

One of the most exciting rivalries in tennis will resume at the Australian Open on Monday after Rafael Nadal and Nick Kyrgios both got past former Top 10 players to set up a fourth-round blockbuster. Nadal cruised past Pablo Carreno Busta on Rod Laver Arena, 6-1, 6-2, 6-4, while Kyrgios

MADRID (AP)—Roger Federer rallied to beat Milos Raonic 4-6, 7-5, 7-6 (4) at the Madrid Open on Wednesday to narrowly avoid his earliest tournament exit in two years. Federer hasn't been eliminated in the second round of a tournament since the 2010 Rome Masters, and the 16-time Grand Slam champion

Grimacing through gritted teeth, a weary Grigor Dimitrov withstood leg cramps, crashes to the court, lost opportunities, and the stubborn surge of world No. 1 Novak Djokovic. Through it all, the 21-year-old never lost his appetite for the fight. Persevering through a punishing physical test, Dimitrov fought off three set

MELBOURNE—Tennis aficionados had been waiting for this battle of the ball carvers, and for once a highly anticipated match went beyond its billing. Bernard Tomic and Alexandr Dolgopolov carved the ball every which way, and often the same way, for dozens of shots at a time. Much of the match

Kimiko Date Krumm was on a run for the ages, but Serena Williams had time on her side, history in her sights and plenty of purpose behind her shots to continue her career-best winning streak. The world No. 1 overwhelmed the world's oldest Top 100 player, 6-2, 6-0, to extend

Roger Federer, who will play his first tournament since Wimbledon next week at the Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati, celebrates a very special day today: it's his 38th birthday. Age is most definitely but a number for Federer. Not only has he won his 18th, 19th and 20th career

BOISE, Idaho -- Sam Querrey put the United States on the scoreboard with a 7-6 (1), 3-6, 4-6, 6-1, 6-4 win over Viktor Troicki of Serbia to end the first day of the Davis Cup quarterfinal with the two nations tied at 1 on Friday. In the first match, world

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) Thirty years after their last spellbinding Wimbledon final, Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe are going head-to-head again - and this time, it's serious. McEnroe unleashed his now famous `You cannot be serious'' rant in that 1981 tournament, and the fiery American was tempted to use his trademark

June 4 1870 — Ed Brown becomes the first African-American jockey to win the Belmont Stakes, with Kingfisher. 1927 — The United States wins the first Ryder Cup golf tournament by beating Britain 9½-2½. 1932 — Faireno, ridden by Tommy Malley, wins the Belmont Stakes by 1½ lengths over Osculator.

There was only one result at Indian Wells—winning the title—that would have put Carlos Alcaraz back at No. 1 on the ATP rankings, and he came through, defeating Daniil Medvedev in the final on Sunday, 6-3, 6-2, to capture the third Masters 1000 title of his career. Today, the 19-year-old

NEW YORK—The British sportswriter Simon Barnes used to describe Roger Federer’s game as a “cooperation,” rather than a confrontation, with the person on the other side of the net. “He creates the illusion that his opponent is not, in fact, opposing him,” Barnes wrote of the Swiss great. “That his

Four Score: For the first time in four tries, Madison Keys defeated good friend and fellow American Sloane Stephens, 7-6 (6), 4-6, 6-2, Friday afternoon in the quarterfinals of the Volvo Car Open in Charleston. Stephens hadn’t just won all three of their previous meetings, she’d won them all in

American Sofia Kenin came out with an aggressive game plan on Saturday, and executed it to perfection to defeat countrywoman Serena Williams, 6-2, 7-5, in the third round of the French Open. “It’s a lot of emotions. Serena’s such a great player and a true champion,” Kenin told Fabrice Santoro

She was already the first Arab woman to reach the Top 50 on the WTA rankings, but this week Ons Jabeur one-ups her own record—the Tunisian rises from No. 22 to No. 20, her Top 20 debut, after reaching the quarterfinals of the WTA 1000 in Montreal. It was her

The tennis season reached one early crescendo in Australia. Now it’s time for the music to begin gathering again, week by week, until we reach a second summit in Indian Wells and Miami in March. While the women join their Fed Cup teams this coming weekend, the men will start