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

PARIS (AP) No comeback necessary for Serena Williams in this match. She was back to being at her best. Her serves were terrific, to the tune of 10 aces. Her returns, too, delivering 11 winners. Her forehands, her backhands, her defense - and the list goes on and on -

BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) Former world No. 1s Victoria Azarenka and Ana Ivanovic departed from the Aegon Classic singles draw on Wednesday, with only Ivanovic confident of being ready for Wimbledon in 11 days. Azarenka suffered another blow to her chances of reviving her faltering career when she was forced to

All through the 1970s, South Africa’s presence in tennis was complicated and controversial. The nation’s repressive policy of apartheid had made it a worldwide political pariah. In 1970, South Africa was banned from Davis Cup. Two years later, it was reinstated. The 1974 South African squad won six ties to

HOUSTON (AP) — Fourth-seeded Steve Johnson beat top-seeded Jack Sock 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 on Saturday in an all-American semifinal in the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championship. Johnson won his lone ATP Tour title last year on grass at Nottingham in England. He will face eighth-seeded Thomaz Bellucci of Brazil, a

LONDON (AP) — One break of serve, and a mini-break, was all Roger Federer needed to win his opening match at the season-ending ATP Finals on Sunday. The 19-time Grand Slam champion broke Jack Sock at the start of his 6-4, 7-6 (4) victory at the O2 Arena. Both then

MIAMI, USA— One week after apologizing to fans for “the worst match” she’s ever played in her life, Naomi Osaka was back in the winners circle at the Miami Open. This match on Tuesday wasn’t pretty either, as she trailed Ukrainian qualifier Yuliia Starodubtseva by a set and a break.

Jakub Mensik joined an elite club at the Mutua Madrid Open on Tuesday when he became only the fifth teenager to reach the quarterfinals at the Caja Magica. The 19-year-old rolled into the last eight in straight sets over Alexander Bublik, not only following in the footsteps of Rafael Nadal,

INDIAN WELLS, Calif.—If you’ve ever suspected that the pros are fundamentally different from the rest of us—more assured, less anxious, tougher all around—Sunday’s two finals here should make you think twice about that notion. Jelena Jankovic and Novak Djokovic each raced through the first set of their matches and stood

NEW YORK—It was a relatively quiet day at Flushing Meadows yesterday, just the kind you expect on the eve of a three-day holiday weekend. Or it was until around 9:30 P.M. when Lleyton Hewitt, after badly mangling an opportunity to go up two sets on No. 6 seed Juan Martin

On Day 4 at Roland Garros, Steve Tignor meandered through the schedule and wrote about the matches and moments that caught his eye. When the schedule was made for Wednesday at Roland Garros, some of us pointed to the closing contest in Court Suzanne Lenglen, between Benoit Paire and Pierre-Hugues

WATCH: Carlos Alcaraz advanced to his first career grass-court semifinal with a straight-sets win over Sebastian Korda.

View the entire men's bracket at our Wimbledon tournament page. Tennis isn’t run out of the offices of the All England Club the way it once was, but Wimbledon can still throw a little of its old weight around. This year, the tournament unilaterally reversed the seedings of Rafael Nadal

Four singles matches came and went in Rome on Saturday, but there was one character in the day’s drama who never left: The court. The clay in the main stadium at the Foro Italico has been a subject of much frustrated discussion—as well as a fair amount of slipping, sliding,

NEW YORK—A long-awaited explosion in American men’s tennis, culminating with the coronation of the first native-born Grand Slam singles champion since Andy Roddick in 2003, may be in the making at this US Open. The fuse was lit Friday afternoon by Frances Tiafoe and Ben Shelton. “There’s something about this