A BIG WIN FOR ‘MCKALINSKAYA’ After a week off, the WTA returned to action at the St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy, a 500-level event. After the first round at the indoor tournament, it was anyone’s game as three of the top four seeds dropped their opening match. Veronika Kudermetova and Elise

Bianca Andreescu vs. Elena Rybakina “Bianca is back” is a refrain tennis fans hear every few months. So far, the 22-year-old Canadian’s career has mostly been spent returning from injury, and then, once she’s in decent form, getting injured again. This time around, she’s been gaining momentum in a new

Taylor Fritz says he doesn’t have a specific round that he wants to reach at Wimbledon this year. When he was asked about his goals for the fortnight after his five-set, three-day win over Yannick Hanfmann on Wednesday, the American was content to trot out the sports cliché of all

Heading into the French Open draw ceremony, one question was on the mind of tennis observers around the world: Where would Serena Williams land? The three-time French Open champion, unseeded after taking time off to have a child, will face Kristyna Pliskova in her first Grand Slam match in more

Before each day of play at the Australian Open, we'll preview and predict three must-see matches. For full coverage of the season's first Slam, go to our men’s and women’s tournament pages. One woman is playing in her first Australian Open semifinal in 14 years, and the other is playing

MELBOURNE—The word talent is often associated with qualities found in art museums. Tennis’ avatar is Roger Federer—smooth of swing and walk, elegant in dress, posture, even hair. But as Billie Jean King once said, “Persistence is a talent.” Given King’s assertion, one of the most talented people still in contention

MONTREAL (AP)—Some top players have shown signs of rust at the Rogers Cup, though not top-ranked Novak Djokovic. The 24-year-old Serb kept up his strong play this season with a 7-5, 6-3 victory over Marin Celic of Croatia on Thursday to reach the quarterfinals of the Masters Series event. He’s

For a multitude of reasons, this year's French Open women's tournament is one of the most wide open in years. Throughout this week, the editors of TENNIS.com will each write about three possible contenders—un, deux, trois—for the Coupe Suzanne Lenglen. Caroline Wozniacki Wozniacki may not have a better opportunity to

The clay season expands this week. After keeping our attention focused on Monte Carlo for the past seven days, we’ll spread it around to Barcelona, Munich, and Stuttgart over the next seven. There are no 1000-level events among them, but there’s still a lot to watch. In Stuttgart, the women

MATCH POINT: Dimitrov sends off Tiafoe in straights

Tennis, as I wrote more than once last month, had a good February. But the winds went out of those sails on Monday, when Maria Sharapova announced that she had failed a drug test. Even the sight of Gael Monfils hotdogging his way across Madison Square Garden on Tuesday night

The depth of the WTA Tour has been a regular topic of discussion in recent years. But only at the four Grand Slam events and the tour’s four mandatory tournaments—now called WTA 1000s—do we get to see it laid out before us, bracket by bracket. The Mutua Madrid Open is

When Angelique Kerber hit a winner on Monday, she did her best to imagine the cheers coming from living-room couches all over the world. “It’s not the same,” the former No. 1 said from behind a blue mask after her 6-4, 6-4 win over Ajla Tomljanovic in Louis Armstrong Stadium

The men are in full clay swing. Rafael Nadal has left Novak Djokovic and his poodle, Pierre, with the winner’s trophy back in Monte Carlo, and is already in Barcelona taking questions from the press. Tomorrow the rest of the ATP players there will be joined, in Stuttgart, by many

One thing you can say about the French: They don’t pander to those of us watching on TV when they schedule the late rounds at Roland Garros. With no way to divide the big matches between day and night sessions, French officials tend to put the major fourth-rounders and quarterfinals

PARIS (AP) — Marin Cilic ended a three-match losing streak against David Goffin at the Paris Masters on Thursday to earn a spot at the ATP Finals. The former U.S. Open champion needs to stop an even worse run if he is to make it to the last four in

The first significant tournament of the summer is in the books for both tours. Doubles Take looks back. VIVE LA FRANCE IN MONTREAL As is the case at the ATP Masters 1000 events, you’ll often see more singles players in the doubles draw. Montreal was no exception, with Juan Martin

Are the rules about honesty looser on Canadian sports TV than they are in the States? After watching Rafael Nadal sneak out of a second-set tiebreaker against Kevin Anderson last night, I walked into the press room to hear the lead commentator on Toronto’s tennis broadcast say something along the

Let’s try this again. Last week in Madrid, Serena Williams played Maria Sharapova in the final. This is the matchup that many in tennis would love to be able to call a rivalry, but Serena stubbornly refuses to let it happen. And she refused yet again at the Caja Magica,

Oh, to be burdened with the problems of youth. Alexander Zverev, the talented 20-year-old who has won five ATP titles this season—including two ATP Masters 1000 tournaments—and is fourth in the Emirates ATP Rankings, has secured entry into both the Next Gen ATP Finals (in Milan, November 7-11) and the