BALI, Indonesia (AP)—Ana Ivanovic of Serbia will play Anabel Medina Garrigues of Spain in Sunday’s final of the WTA Tournament of Champions. Defending champion Ivanovic defeated Nadia Petrova of Russia 6-1, 7-5 in the first semifinal on Saturday to reach her first final since winning the title a year ago.

When recreational players customize a new racquet, it’s usually a quick, simple and cheap job. They often just add a few pieces of lead tape to the sides of the head to stabilize the frame. But when ATP tour pros beef up their racquets, they do it from the bottom

Wimbledon 2018 was in many ways a throwback Slam. It saw winners we haven't seen in a while, the near restoration of Serena Williams' full powers and a 40-year-old world No. 1 conquer the doubles draw with a new partner. Here are the Top 10 moments from the past two

It’s actually unreal that France has not won a Davis Cup title since 2001. This weekend will be a huge chance for this generation of Top-30 French players to get it done. They will be heavy favorites to sweep past a Serbian team that comes in without their top stars

“I’m not a psychic, or how you say, but we’ll see,” said Victoria Azarenka yesterday when asked if she’d be 100 percent today, considering the apparent ankle injury she sustained in the semifinals. It says a lot about the new No. 1’s new dominance that she was still favored to

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

Perhaps it's their time spent playing in rock bands where screaming audiences are just part of the party or maybe it's their experience dodging ornery frat guys trying to douse their baseball caps with beers during college matches against rabid rivals. Whatever the reason, the Bryan Brothers sure seem to

TOKYO (AP) Defending champion Kei Nishikori, of Japan, was given a real scare by teen ace Borna Coric, of Croatia, on Monday, before sealing a 2-6, 6-1, 6-2 comeback win in the first round of the Rakuten Japan Open. The 38th-ranked Coric, the youngest player in the top 50 of

American tennis is in a great place right now. 23 players are currently ranked in the Top 100—nine on the men’s side and 14 on the women’s side—and after such a successful 2017 season, there could be big things in store for a lot of them in the new year

PARIS (AP) In a matchup of past French Open champions with similar, grind-it-out-at-the-baseline games, Francesca Schiavone knew she and Svetlana Kuznetsova would wind up playing for hours and hours. They've done it before, once meeting in the longest Grand Slam women's match in history, and they did it again Thursday.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Grigor Dimitrov may have come up agonizingly short of making his first Grand Slam final, but he's looking at the bright side. At 25, he's reached the second major semifinal of his career, and he took Rafael Nadal to five sets — in nearly five hours

Juan Martin del Potro continued his impressive week at the Abierto Mexicano TELCEL on Friday night, defeating Alexander Zverev, 6-4 6-2, to reach the final at the ATP World Tour 500-level event. 1. He didn’t drop serve once. Del Potro not only held all nine of his service games, he

After any WTA 1000 event there’s lots of movement on the WTA rankings, and with the China Open wrapping up in Beijing over the weekend, this week's rankings are no exception. The most notable move comes from 17-year-old Mirra Andreeva, who rises from No. 22 to No. 19—her Top 20

While many of the WTA's top players have been enjoying some rest and relaxation in the little more than a week since the WTA Finals concluded in Riyadh, there's been no R&R in the early days of the offseason for Zheng Qinwen. The Olympic champion has already unveiled a new

In a match that ended after midnight on Wednesday night (or Thursday morning), Lorenzo Musetti took out world No. 7 Alex de Minaur, 6-4, 6-2, to secure his spot in the quarterfinals of Madrid. And that’s not the only spot he secured with the win. He’ll now become the newest

WIMBLEDON, England(AP) Vera Zvonareva has never played in a Grand Slam final before. At No. 21, the Russian is the second-lowest ranked player ever to reach the Wimbledon women's final. Her opponent is the world's top-ranked player and a three-time Wimbledon winner. Nothing to worry about then. `I don't care

ROME -- Beating one of the Williams sisters is an accomplishment any young tennis player should celebrate. Winning consecutive matches against both of them would likely be a career highlight. British teenager Laura Robson faces that task after beating Venus Williams 6-3, 6-2 on Monday at the Italian Open to

MELBOURNE—While such stylists as Roger Federer, Nick Kyrgios and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga can reveal their visceral and layered qualities even when watched on smart phones, Marin Cilic can appear robotic and monochromatic. But viewed up close, this man from Croatia’s movement and ability to shape the ball reveals deceptive texture and

NEW YORK—It was reckoning time, that point in some matches when two players simultaneously sense that a potentially decisive point beckons, that the match has reached some sort of crossroads. They can feel it in their bones. Shahar Peer, once No. 11 in the world but currently the top seed

by Pete Bodo The gods of thunder and lightning were kind to tennis today, and with so many matches on the schedule, the action was fast and furious, from the 11:30 start time until dusk settled over the heavily trodden courts. They scheduled 55 matches for Monday and they managed