Before each day's play at the Australian Open, we'll preview and predict three must-see matches. Rafa says he’s looking forward to a “beautiful match” with Cilic. Is that because he enjoys facing off against the Croat, who brings a gentlemanly attitude to the court? Or is it because Nadal leads

Tuesday at Wimbledon features all four women's quarterfinals. Here, previews and picks of the tournament's elite eight: From one No. 1 to another, in a 24-hour span. That’s what Riske will be doing when she follows her fourth-round win over top seed Ash Barty with this quarterfinal against Serena. Strangely,

The draw ceremony for the 2019 French Open took place in Paris on Thursday night, and there were five women’s first-round matches in particular that turned some heads, none more so than... 1. (9) Elina Svitolina Vs Venus Williams In an absolute blockbuster of a first-round match-up, reigning WTA Finals

NEW YORK (AP) A year after one of the most significant and stunning losses of Serena Williams' illustrious career, she's made it back to the same stage of the same tournament: the U.S. Open semifinals. The stakes and opponent are different. Once again, there is history in the offing. At

Before each day's play at the Australian Open, we'll preview three must-see matches. Federer and Evans have been on tour together for the better part of a decade, but they’ve faced each other just once, at Wimbledon in 2016. You probably have a pretty good idea how that one turned

The 2024 tennis season started out with much anticipated returns from Naomi Osaka and Rafael Nadal, and has since seen the ATP Top 10 rankings lose the one-handed backhand for the first time ever (and then, get it back); Simona Halep have her doping suspension shortened on appeal and return

For all the classics they've contested around the world, on every surface and at every Grand Slam, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic managed to set the bar pretty low for Sunday's Rome final. Their last meeting, this year's Australian Open final, was a rout, though Djokovic fans surely had no

Novak Djokovic vs. Marton Fucsovics Djokovic and Fucsovics have played twice, and, not surprisingly, Djokovic has won both times. But neither has been a breeze; Fucsovics won a set each time, before getting blown out in the final frame—6-0 in the fourth set at the 2018 US Open; 6-1 in

On Tuesday, the US Open announced the 2019 wild card selections. To many's surprise, Tommy Paul was not on the list. Paul currently sits at a career-high No. 112 in the world, making him the highest-ranked American not to gain direct entry into the main draw. When wild card recipient

A group of talented Americans stepped up to the plate to make huge waves in Paris and during the second week of Roland Garros, in Italy. Here are the top American movers and shakers as the tours head into their final tournaments of the year: 1 Finalist, Roland Garros After

In this new Q&A series, TENNIS.com will check in with players stationed all around the world while hanging tight during the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, Gaby Dabrowski tells us about her time at the Saddlebrook Resort in Wesley Chapel, Fla. Describe a day in the quarantine life where you are currently

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Naomi Osaka’s clay-court adversity continues as she exits the 2024 Mutua Madrid Open in the second round, losing to Liudmila Samsonova, 6-2, 4-6, 7-5. A former world No. 1, Osaka has not won back-to-back matches on clay since 2019, when she lost in the third round of Roland Garros, and

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

We're counting down the Top 10 matches of 2020 from Nov. 30 through Dec. 11. Click here to read each selection. “I thought that after my first big title in New York, maybe I’m going to be a little more calm,” Dominic Thiem said, with what looked like a grin

Over the first 10 days of 2017, we're examining the Top 10 players on the ATP and WTA tours—how will they fare during the new season? All of the previews can be found here. Last June, as he fell to the clay in Court Philippe Chatrier after winning his first

For our sixth annual Heroes Issue, we’ve selected passages from the last 50 years of Tennis Magazine and TENNIS.com—starting in 1969 and ending in 2018—to highlight 50 worthy heroes. Each passage acknowledges the person as they were then; each subsequent story catches up with the person, or highlights their impact,

Sloane Stephens kept her recent domination of Victoria Azarenka going at the Mutua Madrid Open on Monday, prevailing 6-4, 2-6, 6-2 for her fourth win in a row against the former World No. 1. After losing their first three meetings at the Australian Open in 2013, 2014 and 2015, Stephens

It wasn't the University of Maryland-Baltimore County beating the University of Virginia. Not by a long shot. But unseeded Naomi Osaka nonetheless stunned the top seed in a very big tournament—Simona Halep, at the BNP Paribas Open—in a lopsided result that will leave fans talking a day later. When Osaka

Do you remember the look that Simona Halep had over the last few rounds of Wimbledon in 2019? It was a look of intense focus, controlled fury and upbeat relentlessness. Last year at the All England Cub, it kicked in during the second set of her quarterfinal win over Zhang