MATCH POINT: Serena Williams back in win column in Toronto

WATCH: Iga Swiatek speaks with Tennis Channel following her 2022 WTA Finals round robin match.

Casper Ruud, the hard-court specialist? The 23-year-old has advanced to four significant finals in 2022—three of them away from his original comfort zone of clay. Ruud’s latest breakthrough comes at the Nitto ATP Finals, played on indoor hard. As he stayed plugged in Saturday, Andrey Rublev was never connected. It

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Might be easy to forget, perhaps, that Coco Gauff is still just 18. After all, she's been winning Grand Slam matches for 3 1/2 years. Already reached one major final. Moved into the top 10 of the WTA rankings in singles and doubles. So Gauff was

INTERVIEW: Cirstea after completing a quarterfinal stunner in South Florida

Daria Kasatkina had a simple goal heading into her Credit One Charleston Open semifinal against Jessica Pegula: win two games. “In Tokyo, I think I lost, 6-1, 6-0, so that was the strategy, actually,” Kasatkina told Steve Weissman on Saturday. “After I won two in the first set, I was

The year was new, but the story was old. That’s the quickest way to describe Rafael Nadal’s 7-5, 6-4 win over Ernests Gulbis today in Doha. It happened on the second evening of 2014, but it could have been played in any season going back to 2008, when these two

PARIS (AP) — Novak Djokovic said the surgery on his right knee "went well" after he was injured during the French Open and added Thursday that he hopes to return to competition "as soon as possible." Djokovic had an operation in Paris on Wednesday, two days after he hurt the

WIMBLEDON, England—The Deci-Belles would make a good name for an all-girl band, and you couldn’t ask for a more appropriate pair of founding members than Maria Sharapova and Michelle Larcher de Brito, two of tennis' pioneering shriekers. They wouldn’t need to pay for microphones, anyway. The women put on their

Serbia and France won doubles matches Saturday to stay alive in the Davis Cup semifinals after being swept in the opening singles. Defending champion Serbia is hoping U.S. Open winner Novak Djokovic will be healthy enough to help complete a comeback against Argentina in reverse singles Sunday. Rafael Nadal will

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP)—Top-ranked Victoria Azarenka is pleased with her 17 straight victories so far this season, but the Australian Open champion is not about to compare her winning streak with Novak Djokovic’s all-conquering start to last season just yet. “I am honored to have the comparison because he

Each day during the French Open, we'll preview—and predict the winner of—three of the most compelling women's matches. (4) Petra Kvitova vs. Varvara Lepchenko —Head to Head: Kvitova leads 1-0 One of the feel-good stories of the tournament, Lepchenko calls herself "a fighter in tennis and in life", and displayed

The dreary early evening sky and bleak digits shining off the scoreboard offered little hope, but for one moment, Varvara Lepchenko had Petra Kvitova right where she wanted her: So far off the court that the Wimbledon winner probably could have reached out and high-fived a few fans in the

Each day during Wimbledon, we'll select three of the most intriguing matches on the schedule and offer our predictions. Roger Federer [3] vs. David Nalbandian [28] (Centre Court, second match) As we saw in the 2009 Wimbledon final and earlier this year in Madrid, you can play a perfect match

Breakthrough stories don’t come much bigger than Emma Raducanu—as if reaching the fourth round of Wimbledon as a wild card weren’t enough, two months later she went on to win the US Open as a qualifier, in doing so becoming the first qualifier in the Open Era, male or female,

MOSCOW (AP)—U.S. Open champion Marin Cilic reached the final of the Kremlin Cup on Saturday, beating Kazakhstan's Mikhail Kukushkin 4-6, 6-3, 6-2. In Sunday's final, the big-serving Croatian will seek his fourth title of the season against Spain's Roberto Bautista Agut. ''It was very difficult,'' Cilic said. ''I felt that

Gisela Dulko flew solo for today’s singles showdown with Samantha Stosur. Dulko’s brother and coach, Alejandro, was back home in Argentina, where his wife gave birth to twins yesterday. Today, the proud aunt delivered a winning welcome-to-the-world message to her newborn nephews. Playing with purpose, Dulko dissected a sloppy Stosur

It’s hard to keep your eyes off Alexandr Dolgopolov. Even when he’s being beaten comprehensively, you’re waiting with bated breath to see what piece of demented brilliance or wild error he’s going to come up with next. Sadly for the Ukrainian, there was more of the latter than the former

CINCINNATI -- Not even John Isner's steamiest serves could keep Rafael Nadal from winning another hard-court title. The 27-year-old Spaniard took advantage of the few openings he got Sunday against the top-ranked American, grinding out a 7-6 (8), 7-6 (3) win at the Western & Southern Open that added yet

MELBOURNE, Australia -- Serena Williams' long winning streak came to an end in a stunning fourth-round defeat to Ana Ivanovic at the Australian Open on Sunday. Ivanovic hadn't won a set in her four previous matches against Williams, who had been a hot favorite to win a sixth Australian Open