PALERMO, Italy (AP)—Roberta Vinci put Italy into the Fed Cup final, beating Lucie Safarova of the Czech Republic 6-3, 6-7 (2), 6-3 Monday in a series postponed a day because of rain. Vinci gave Italy a 3-1 lead in the best-of-five playoff against the defending champion. The match was played

LONDON (AP)—Canadian teenager Eugenie Bouchard picked up the biggest victory of her career at Wimbledon on Wednesday, beating 12th-seeded Ana Ivanovic, the 2008 French Open champion, 6-3, 6-3 to reach the third round. The 66th-ranked Bouchard, who is 19, won the girls' title at the All England Club a year

It's hip to be a Bryan. As Karen Khachanov and Danii Medvedev found out in their Indian Wells first-rounder against the doubles legends, steering a shot through the Great Wall of Bryan at net can be a fatiguing, even daunting task. Consider the 36-stroke exchange ultimately won by Bob and

METZ, France -- Second-seeded Gilles Simon beat two-time defending champion Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-4, 6-3 on Sunday to win the all-French Open de Moselle final for his first title of the year. Simon had not faced a single break point in the previous two matches but lost his serve once in

PARIS (AP) -- Russians Andrey Rublev and Darya Kasatkina won the the junior titles at the French Open on Saturday. Kasatkina rallied past top-seeded Ivana Jorovic of Serbia 6-7 (5), 6-2, 6-3 in the girls' final, while the fourth-seeded Rublev beat Jaume Antoni Munar Clar of Spain 6-2, 7-5 in

METZ, France (AP)—Igor Sijsling advanced to the second round of the Open de Moselle on Tuesday after Andreas Seppi retired with a lower back pain. Sijsling, ranked 74th in the world, was leading 6-0, 4-1 when his Italian opponent called it quits after just 39 minutes on court. In a

GUANGZHOU, China (AP) -- Alize Cornet of France will play for her second title of the year in the Guangzhou Open final after beating Timea Bacsinszky of Switzerland 6-1, 7-6 (5) on Friday. The second-seeded Cornet, the only seed of eight to get out of the first round, fought her

It's all over, folks. The French Open has wrapped with a new champion on the women's side, Simona Halep, and a familiar face taking home the men's crown. 1 Katerina Siniakova and Barbora Krejcikova win the women's doubles title

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) Novak Djokovic was again below his best but managed to beat Sergiy Stakhovsky of Ukraine 7-6 (5), 6-3 at the Dubai Championships on Wednesday for his ninth straight win in 2012. The top-ranked Djokovic looked rusty at times in his opening win against Cedrik-Marcel Stebe,

UMAG, Croatia (AP) Marcel Granollers from Spain reached the Croatia Open final defeating top-seeded Fernando Verdasco 6-2, 6-7 (5), 6-1 on Saturday. Granollers will play either second-seeded Croat Marin Cilic or defending champion Alexandr Dolgopolov from Ukraine. Fourth-seeded Granollers converted six out of 15 break chances, while countryman Verdasco had

BARCELONA, Spain(AP) David Ferrer rallied for a 1-6, 2-6, 6-4, 6-4, 8-6 victory over Radek Stepanek to give defending champion Spain a 2-0 lead in the Davis Cup final against the Czech Republic. Rafael Nadal beat Tomas Berdych 7-5, 6-0, 6-2 in the first singles match Friday and Stepanek looked

PARIS (AP) Two points from defeat, defending champion Francesca Schiavone (skee-ah-VOH-nay) came back to beat 14th-seeded Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (pav-lee-oo-CHEN-ko-vuh) of Russia 1-6, 7-5, 7-5 in the French Open quarterfinals Tuesday. The 30-year-old Schiavone was the oldest female quarterfinalist; the 19-year-old Pavlyuchenkova was the youngest. Appearing in her first Grand Slam

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AP)—Top-seeded Robin Soderling of Sweden beat Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 to successfully defend his title at the ABN Amro World Tennis Tournament on Sunday. Soderling broke Tsonga’s first service game to take an early 2-0 lead but the eighth-seeded Frenchman broke Soderling in the fifth game before

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The Latest on Tuesday at the Australian Open (all times local): 2:10 a.m. Seventh-seeded Dominic Thiem held off Benoit Paire 6-4, 6-3, 5-7, 1-6, 6-3 in a first-round Australian Open match that finished after 2 a.m. on Wednesday. Thiem, a French Open finalist last year, got

The Sony Open has kickstarted in Key Biscayne, Florida—commonly known as Miami to mainlanders—and already it is an eventful tour stop for both ATP and WTA players on the heels of the Indian Wells style bonanza. Heralded DJ Calvin Harris headed up the aural proceedings, blasting beat-laden hits for all.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP)—First Rafael Nadal, now Roger Federer. Federer, the 16-time Grand Slam winner, was knocked out of the Australian Open 7-6 (3), 7-5, 6-4 on Thursday by 2008 champion Novak Djokovic. Before the tournament Nadal was going for his fourth straight Grand Slam win and Federer was aiming for

(2) Rafael Nadal vs. (19) Tommy Robredo What Robredo must do to win: Play flawless baseline tennis, take some risk with his serve and forehand, and stay close early. Robredo is at his best grinding away from the baseline, but beating Nadal in a long baseline battle is as easy

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP)—Andy Murray’s first tournament since reaching the Australian Open final ended in the second round of the Dubai Championships by Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia 7-6 (3), 4-6, 6-4 on Wednesday. Tipsarevic evened his record at 3-3 against Murray, who’s never had an easy time with the

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.(AP) World No. 6 Elena Dementieva beat Melanie Oudin 7-6 (7-4), 0-6, 6-3 to give Russia a lead over the U.S. in a Fed Cup semifinals match. The third straight tightly contested match between the two put the Americans in a 2-1 hole Sunday in the best-of-five contest with

PARIS (AP) As the French Open rolls along, both Rafael Nadal and Maria Sharapova seem to be getting better and stronger. That isn't really surprising considering that they are two of only five players remaining with more than one Grand Slam title. But with that experience comes pressure, and both