KOBE, Japan (AP)—Kimiko Date-Krumm and Ayumi Morita both won on Saturday to give Japan a 2-0 lead over Slovenia in a Fed Cup World Group II tie. Date-Krumm beat Polona Hercog 2-6, 6-4, 6-2 in the first match and Morita gave Japan a 2-0 lead with a 2-6, 6-4, 6-3

MONACO (AP) Andy Murray dispatched Viktor Troicki 6-0, 6-3 to reach the third round of the Monte Carlo Masters on Tuesday. The third-seeded Brit led 4-0 after 17 minutes and did not face a single break point in improving to 5-0 against the Serb. `Normally when I come here I

KAANAPALI, Hawaii (AP) — CoCo Vandeweghe won the final 10 games to beat Germany's Andrea Petkovic 3-6, 6-4, 6-0 on Sunday and give the United States an insurmountable 3-0 advantage in their Fed Cup quarterfinal match. The U.S. advanced to the semifinals for the first time since 2010. The fourth

BEIJING (AP) -- Rafael Nadal made a dominant return to tennis after a two-month injury layoff, beating Richard Gasquet 6-4, 6-0 at the China Open on Tuesday. Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray also advanced to the second round in vastly different fashion. The top-ranked Djokovic improved to 20-0 at the

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- Top-seeded Kei Nishikori of Japan beat Jarkko Nieminen of Finland 6-3, 4-6, 6-2 to reach the final of the Malaysian Open on Saturday. Playing in his first tournament since reaching the U.S. Open final, Nishikori converted six of his 13 break points and fired eight

ATHENS, Ga. (AP)—Lauren Embree and Alex Cercone won their singles matches to help Florida take its second straight national title with a 4-0 victory over UCLA on Tuesday. The Gators (27-1) were up 3-0 when Embree sealed the championship with a backhand that McCall Jones had no chance to reach.

STUTTGART, Germany (AP) Christina McHale of the United States has lost to Andrea Petkovic of Germany 6-3, 6-4 Saturday in the Fed Cup playoff. Germany takes a 1-0 lead, with another singles match between American Melanie Oudin and Julia Goerges scheduled later in Stuttgart. The 19th-ranked Petkovic led 4-0 in

DOHA, Qatar -- Third-seeded Andy Murray, playing in his first tournament since back surgery in late September, was upset by Florian Mayer of Germany 3-6, 6-4, 6-2 in the second round of the Qatar Open on Wednesday. Top-ranked Rafael Nadal was also taken to three sets but emerged with a

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP)—Simona Halep defeated Hungary's Timea Babos 7-5, 6-1 Friday to set up an all-Romanian semifinal against Alexandra Cadantu at the Hungarian Grand Prix. Halep won three consecutive games to close out the first set at the Romai Tennis Academy after Babos failed to convert any of her four

In his 0-6, 6-4, 7-5, 6-7 (4), 7-6 (5) win, Nadal left it all on the court, including his shoes. Photographs by Anita Aguilar; Captions by Steve Tignor

When Jelena Ostapenko reached the second week of the French Open, the player she most likely would want to play in her biggest career match would have to be Caroline Wozniacki. She had a 3-0 record against the Dane, and on Tuesday, extended it to 4-0. The 19-year-old—now the youngest

It’s unclear what happened when Aryna Sabalenka found herself down 6-0, 4-0 to Sara Sorribes Tormo in Friday’s Ostrava quarterfinal. What is clear is that something clicked for the 22-year-old, who steamrolled her way through twelve consecutive games, stiff-armed a red-hot Jennifer Brady 6-4, 6-4 in the semifinal, then boat-raced

All week we’ve been counting down our Top 5 Stats of the Year, starting with Barbora Krejcikova pulling off a historic Top 3 sweep in Dubai, Coco Gauff becoming the first U.S. teenager to win the US Open this century and Carlos Alcaraz ending a more-than-two-decade-long Big 4 domination at

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) Agnieszka Radwanska breezed into the second round of the Connecticut Open with a 6-0, 6-2 victory over American CoCo Vandeweghe on Monday at Connecticut Tennis Center. The Krakow, Poland native needed only 65 minutes to set up a second-round meeting with France's Aliza Cornet, who advanced

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) -- Rafael Nadal has joined Roger Federer on the sidelines at the Australian Open, taking their combined 31 Grand Slam singles titles with them. On the women's side, second-seeded Maria Sharapova, who beat Eugenie Bouchard on Tuesday, and Ekaterina Makarova are still around and will play an

David Nalbandian fights off two match points to defeat Australian Lleyton Hewitt 3-6, 6-4, 3-6, 7-6, 9-7 in the first round of the Australian Open. Hewitt was up 3-0 in the fourth set and also held break points to go up 4-0. Nalbandian cramped in the five-hour and 18-minute match

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP)—Marin Cilic overcame Florian Mayer 4-6, 6-0, 4-6, 6-3, 6-1 for Croatia to lead Germany 1-0 in their first-round Davis Cup tie on Friday. In the deciding set, Cilic broke Mayer in the first game and twice more to beat Mayer for the first time in three matches.

With his 6-4, 6-3 second-round victory against Germany’s Jan-Lennard Struff at the Olympics on Monday, Novak Djokovic hit yet another milestone—he’s now won his last 20 matches in a row, having gone 4-0 to win the ATP 250 in Belgrade the week before Roland Garros, then 7-0 to win Roland

Sometimes it starts with the most innocuous of mistakes, when the match seems all but over and the fans are hardly paying attention anymore. Roughly an hour into the French Open final, Simona Halep led Jelena Ostapenko 6-4, 3-0, and had break points to make it 4-0. With defense, depth

Playing her first match in two months, and with Wim Fissette as her new coach, defending WTA Finals champion Iga Swiatek came all the way back to defeat Wimbledon champion Barbora Krejcikova 4-6, 7-5, 6-2 in Sunday's opening Orange Group match in Riyadh. Swiatek told reporters on the eve of