PARIS (AP) Mikhail Youzhny was having such a bad day in the third round of the French Open that he felt the need to apologize, right on court during the match. The 27th-seeded Russian scraped a misspelled ``SORRi!'' into the clay with his right foot in the middle of his

WATCH: Stefanos Tsitsipas defeats Alexander Zverev in the 2022 Rome semifinals

LONDON (AP) — Venus Williams is the oldest woman in the Wimbledon quarterfinals since 1994. Johanna Konta is the first British woman to make it that far since 1984. Angelique Kerber's loss means she'll relinquish the No. 1 ranking. Jelena Ostapenko needed eight match points for her latest win —

Venus Williams and Angelique Kerber should always go down to the wire, shouldn't they? And then go a little farther while they're at it. They're a perfect match: On one side you have Venus the attacker, who never takes less than a full-throttle cut at the ball; on the other

Maria Sharapova called the shots pushing Samantha Stosur around the court in the past. But the red clay resembled a slippery slope as the seventh-seeded Russian stared down a one set, 3-4 deficit today. Refusing to stumble, Sharapova stepped up to the baseline and charged back like a woman running

SHANGHAI -- Novak Djokovic overcame a scare when he landed awkwardly on his right foot and recovered to beat Spain's Marcel Granollers 6-2, 6-0 in the Shanghai Masters on Wednesday. Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal had fewer problems in their second-round matches. Federer rebounded from an early break to defeat

For Australian tennis players, two attributes have always held supreme power: loyalty and fitness. On this day in 1973, both revealed themselves eloquently. It was Friday, November 30, the start of the Davis Cup final, Australia versus the United States at the Public Auditorium in Cleveland. The U.S. team had

INDIAN WELLS, Calif. -- Rafael Nadal defeated error-prone Roger Federer 6-4, 6-2 in the quarterfinals of the BNP Paribas Open on Thursday night in the earliest meeting between the two rivals since they first played each other in 2004. Nadal needed barely 1½ hours to close out the defending champion

As if competing for oneself wasn’t hard enough, try taking on the hopes and dreams of an entire nation—and in this case, the one that invented tennis. Welcome to the life and times of Sir Andy Murray (he was knighted in 2019), who retired from professional tennis today at 37,

Are Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner ready to run it back for a late-night sequel at the US Open? After playing one of—if not the—men’s match of the 2022 season at Flushing Meadows—Alcaraz and Sinner have once again landed in the same quarter of the New York major, a revelation

PERTH, Australia (AP) — Kati Boulter and Cameron Norrie helped Britain beat host Australia on the opening day of the United Cup tennis tournament, while Spain won the decisive mixed double to edge Brazil 2-1. The tournament involving mixed teams from 18 countries is being played in Perth and Sydney

After Wimbledon ends, it’s not an automatic pivot to hard courts for everyone. Over the years, a large contingent of ATP tour players has stayed in Europe to take part in the late-summer clay-court stretch. And during that time, some future stars have gotten their first taste of title-winning glory.

Bianca Andreescu has taken the tennis world by storm this year, not just winning the first two WTA titles of her career at two of the biggest events of the year—the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells and the Rogers Cup in Toronto—but now reaching her first Grand Slam final

Before each day of play at the French Open, we'll preview and predict three (or, in some cases, four) must-see matches. For full coverage of the season's second Slam, go to our tournament page. Is Stan starting to look ominous again? After wandering aimlessly through the biggest events of the

NEW YORK (AP)—Caroline Wozniacki knew her lengthy match at Flushing Meadows was delaying bedtime for a certain fan of hers: boyfriend Rory McIlroy, the U.S. Open men’s golf champion. Tennis players can’t use cell phones or computers when they’re on court, so the top-seeded Wozniacki had no way of knowing

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP)—After winning a grueling, tightly contested match that lasted nearly four hours, Tomas Berdych didn’t expect to be met by a stadium full of booing and hisses. Berdych, the seventh seed from Czech Republic, was jeered by the crowd for refusing to shake hands with his opponent, No.

In our U.S. Open preview podcast, I felt it was appropriate not only to talk about Flushing Meadows, but also about Flushing’s pro sports team, the New York Mets. The perennially disappointing baseball outfit was in a midst of an unlikely midseason surge thanks to an arsenal of young pitchers

Wimbledon issued its seedings today, and while the women were seeded right off the rankings list (that is, the Top 16 women are the Top 16 seeds, if available to play), the rating of the male players was fine-tuned to reflect the performance of the men on grass. I'm not

PARIS (AP) -- Novak Djokovic became the first man to successfully defend his title at the Paris Masters with a 6-2, 6-3 victory over Milos Raonic on Sunday, putting himself in a commanding position in his fight with Roger Federer for the year-end No.1 spot. Djokovic, who did not drop

NEW YORK (AP) Serena Williams will have to wait before continuing her bid for a calendar-year Grand Slam: Her U.S. Open semifinal was postponed because of rain in the forecast. The top-seeded Williams was supposed to face 43rd-ranked Roberta Vinci of Italy on Thursday night at Flushing Meadows, but nearly