Roger Federer has a "few things to say" about his longtime rival, Rafael Nadal, as the Spaniard prepares for the final tournament of his tennis career. The 20-time Grand Slam singles champion penned an emotional letter to his longtime rival on social media on Tuesday, hours before Nadal was set

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) Two points into the final game of his Australian Open quarterfinal against Roger Federer on Tuesday, Stanislas Wawrinka steadied himself to try returning a forehand smash. Wawrinka playfully waved his racket over his head in a mock attempt to return it. Forget it, the ball sailed past

MADRID (AP) — Top-ranked Andy Murray made his debut at the Madrid Open with a comfortable 6-4, 6-3 win over wild card Marius Copil of Romania in the second round on Tuesday. Murray broke serve once in each set and didn't concede any break opportunities to the 104th-ranked Copil. "When

MADRID (AP) Novak Djokovic overcame a tough debut on the blue clay at the Madrid Open to reach the third round on Tuesday, while top-ranked Victoria Azarenka and Maria Sharapova beat Czech opponents to advance in the women's event. Djokovic's first match on the Magic Box's unorthodox surface was far

MADRID (AP) — Canada beat the United States in the Davis Cup for the first time on Tuesday, defeating the Americans 2-0 on the second day of the revamped team competition to end a run of 15 straight losses. Vasek Pospisil edged Reilly Opelka 7-6 (5), 7-6 (7) and Denis

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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP)—Two points into the final game of his Australian Open quarterfinal against Roger Federer on Tuesday, Stanislas Wawrinka steadied himself to try returning a forehand smash. Wawrinka playfully waved his racket over his head in a mock attempt to return it. Forget it, the ball sailed past him

Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal rarely play each other in exhibitions, so it was difficult to know what to expect before they met in Zurich on Tuesday night. In this reporter’s mind, the over/under on shots hit between the legs during the match was two—probably one by each of the

LONDON (AP) — Carlos Alcaraz's first grass-court match outside Wimbledon proved to be a tricky one. Playing for the first time at the Queen's Club Championships, the top-seeded Alcaraz came from a set down Tuesday to win 4-6, 7-5, 7-6 (3) against lucky loser Arthur Rinderknech — a No. 83-ranked

Novak Djokovic made a memorable debut in Mexico thanks to overwhelming support from Acapulco fans. He accepted a last-minute wildcard to join the ATP 500 field, which includes four other Top 10 players (Rafael Nadal, Marin Cilic, Dominic Thiem and Nick Kyrgios).

MADRID (AP)—Novak Djokovic needed three sets to win his first match on the blue clay at the Madrid Open on Tuesday, and then stepped up his criticism of the new surface. Djokovic labored to a 6-2, 2-6, 6-3 victory over Daniel Gimeno-Traver of Spain in his debut on the Magic

NEW YORK (AP) Rafael Nadal won his 18th consecutive Grand Slam match by beating fellow Spaniard Feliciano Lopez 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 in the fourth round of the U.S. Open. The top-seeded Nadal saved all four break points he faced against No. 23 Lopez and hasn't been broken once this year

MADRID (AP) — Juan Martin del Potro marked his clay-season debut with a 6-3, 6-3 win over Damir Dzumhur in the second round of the Madrid Open on Tuesday. It was the 22nd triumph this season for the sixth-ranked Del Potro, who has the most victories on the ATP Tour

SAO PAULO (AP) Only six days after beating No. 9-ranked Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in Rio de Janeiro, Thiago Monteiro has added another prominent player to his list of upset victories. In the ATP 250 Brasil Open at Sao Paulo, Monteiro beat seventh-seeded, two-time Brazil Open champion Nicolas Almagro of Spain 6-3,

Players completing their rain-delayed matches on Wednesday joined in the complaints about playing in wet conditions at the French Open. Agnieszka Radwanska and Simona Halep criticized the tournament on Tuesday, with the pair saying the courts were not playable. Their matches were the only ones that were completed that day,

MADRID (AP) Former tennis star Arantxa Sanchez Vicario says in a book that her parents lost an estimated $60 million in career earnings through mismanagement. The 40-year-old Sanchez Vicario says her parents were obsessed with her tennis career and controlled most aspects of it. She says in a memoir published

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) For five sets and nearly five hours, two chiseled Spanish left-handers went head-to-head again at the Australian Open. It wasn't a semifinal this time, though, and It didn't end nearly as well for Rafael Nadal, who lost 7-6 (6), 4-6, 3-6, 7-6 (4), 6-2 to Fernando Verdasco

MADRID (AP)—Rafael Nadal leads an unchanged Spain squad in next month’s Davis Cup final against Argentina, which will count on Juan Martin del Potro and David Nalbandian to lead the South Americans to a first title on their fourth attempt. The second-ranked Nadal helped Spain beat France 4-1 in the

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP)—Defending champion Rafael Nadal has beaten Australian Peter Luczak 7-6 (0), 6-1, 6-4 in a first-round match at the Australian Open. Second-seeded Nadal, who claimed his first Grand Slam singles title on hard courts when he beat Roger Federer in last year's final at Melbourne Park, was back

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