The women’s event at 2021 Roland Garros was already an unusual one—the Top 3 seeds were all out before the round of 16 for just the second time in the Open Era, there were four first-time Grand Slam semifinalists in the final four for just the second time at ANY

Ten years ago in Melbourne, Roger Federer may have delivered his finest performance at a Grand Slam tournament. He didn’t drop a set over the fortnight, which included a fourth-round win over a young Novak Djokovic and a semifinal clobbering of an in-form Andy Roddick (6-4, 6-0, 6-2). The lone

WIMBLEDON, England (AP)—Novak Djokovic closed out his latest Wimbledon win with an ace, then threw a fist and let loose a primal scream. Bring on Roger Federer. They'll meet at Wimbledon for the first time Friday. Federer earned a record 32nd Grand Slam semifinal berth and moved closer to a

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The summer of 1969 was in its first week. This first round Wimbledon match had now lasted five hours and 12 minutes. Charlie Pasarell stood to receive serve. For the third year in a row, his opening-round match had proven exceptionally dramatic. Today, though, the 24-year-old Pasarell was about to

ISTANBUL, Turkey—Serena Williams has looked just about unbeatable since Wimbledon, with only one player, world No. 2 Victoria Azarenka, able to play her tough each time they face off. Williams has been pretty healthy since January, and when she’s feeling spry and is able to play freely, she has more

Each day during the Australian Open, Richard Pagliaro will preview three must-see matches—and offer his predictions.

MONTREAL (AP) -- Serena and Venus set up an all-Williams semifinal in the Rogers Cup. The sisters advanced to their 26th career meeting Friday, both rallying to win their quarterfinal matches in the hard-court event. Serena beat Caroline Wozniacki 4-6, 7-5, 7-5, and Venus topped Carla Suarez Navarro 4-6, 6-2,

McGrogan's Heroes ATP - Tomas Berdych This is a tough call. Albert Montanes pulled a rabbit out of his hat in the Estoril final, saving two match points against James Blake before winning the title in three sets (taking the final set 6-0, no less). But Tomas Berdych, hardly known

MELBOURNE, Australia -- Maria Sharapova moved closer to another Australian Open title, set to face a fellow Russian in the semifinals who has never beaten her. Sharapova made all the big points look easy Tuesday in defeating 20-year-old Eugenie Bouchard 6-3, 6-2 -- her fourth consecutive win over the Canadian

CHENNAI, India(AP) Marin Cilic of Croatia and Rainer Schuettler of Germany advanced to the second round of the season-opening Chennai Open on Monday. The third-seeded Cilic needed only one break in each set to beat Alberto Martin of Spain 6-4, 6-4, and fifth-seeded Schuettler held on to beat Indian wild

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates(AP) The Dubai Tennis Championships will start next week without five of the top seven men's players scheduled to compete at the ATP Tour event, mostly because of injuries. Top-ranked Rafael Nadal (knee) and second-ranked Roger Federer (back) withdrew earlier this week. The tournament has since lost

DUESSELDORF, Germany(AP) The United States lost both matches to Sweden on Tuesday at the World Team Cup, with Andreas Vinciguerra beating Robby Ginepri 7-5, 6-4 and Robin Soderling defeating Sam Querrey 6-2, 6-2. The Americans will attempt to recover at Wednesday's doubles of the round-robin tournament. Eight teams are split

LONDON (AP) — Former champions Grigor Dimitrov and Marin Cilic advanced to the last 16 at the Queen's Club grass-court tournament on Monday as three seeded players were eliminated from the Wimbledon warmup. Dimitrov, the 2014 champion, took out third-seeded Cameron Norrie of Britain 6-7 (2), 6-1, 6-4. Norrie was

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Top-ranked Iga Swiatek was upset by Barbora Krejcikova 6-4, 6-2 in the final of the Dubai Championships on Saturday. Krejcikova closed the tournament by beating the top three players in the WTA rankings: No. 3 Jessica Pegula in the quarterfinals, No. 2 Aryna Sabalenka

For an update on the ATP rankings after the Rome Masters, please watch the Court Report video above. Below are the projected men's seedings at the French Open, which will be confirmed on Thursday—draw day—by the tournament. 1 Novak Djokovic (SRB) 2 Rafael Nadal (ESP) 3 Roger Federer (SUI) 4

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Venus Williams is set to make her 24th appearance in the singles draw at Wimbledon after the 43-year-old American was given a wild-card entry on Wednesday. Williams is a five-time Wimbledon singles champion and was a finalist at the grass-court major in 2017, two decades after

TENNIS CHANNEL LIVE: The TC team looks back on Coco Gauff's memorable first round at the 2023 US Open.

It’s difficult to argue against both Ash Barty and Barbora Krejcikova as the WTA's best players so far in 2021. The Czech—who defeated Garbiñe Muguruza on Thursday—owns 39 singles wins to go along with a French Open title, as well as a pair of WTA 250 titles in Strasbourg and

For Zizou Bergs, it’s Clay season—in more ways than one! Bergs scored the first viral moment of the clay-court season with a hilariously unexpected answer to an interview question at the Fayez Sarofim & Co. U.S. Men's Clay Court Championship. Asked to describe his relationship to clay (the surface), the