RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Monica Puig is trying to accomplish something no one from her country has ever done. Angelique Kerber is seeking to achieve the sort of thing she's already done this year. They play each other Saturday for the Olympic gold medal in women's tennis. Puerto Rico's

Georgia’s Nikoloz Basilashvili just never gave up at the Hamburg European Open on Saturday, fighting off two match points and a 5-2 deficit in the third set tiebreak to edge Alexander Zverev in a semifinal thriller, 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (5), and keep his title defense alive at the ATP 500-level

How did Roger Federer’s long-awaited return to Roland Garros begin? On the first point of his first-round match on Sunday, his first shot ticked the tape and fell on the other side of the net for a winner. That was all the luck Federer would need to beat 24-year-old Italian

Tennis ensembles often arrive in terms of tops and bottoms, and that extends to how the reviews of those collections are organized. The year's on-court highlights in the wardrobe department appear here, and now we're curating an off-the-rack collection of 2019's most memorable fashion faults. See if you recall these

Novak Djokovic winning the Australian Open this year—beating Rafael Nadal in the final, 6-3, 6-2, 6-3—was historic in many ways. Here’s some of what he achieved with his triumph in Melbourne: He won the 15th Grand Slam title of his career. Djokovic is now third place on the men’s all-time

World No. 1 Novak Djokovic got his 2021 season off to a winning start on Rod Laver Arena on Tuesday, battling past Denis Shapovalov in two tight sets, 7-5, 7-5, in his first match of the ATP Cup. For most of the match there was very little between them—though Djokovic

Having reached her first WTA final as a 17-year-old in Acapulco a year ago, Canadian teenager Leylah Fernandez continued her breakthrough results on Mexican soil this week, capturing the first WTA title of her career in Monterrey, beating Viktorija Golubic in Sunday’s final, 6-1, 6-4. The 18-year-old Fernandez was the

Trivia: Jannik Sinner’s the first man to reach the quarterfinals in his Roland Garros debut since Rafael Nadal in 2005, and he’s playing Nadal. Who did Nadal play in the quarterfinals when he made HIS Roland Garros debut in 2005? Top 5 stars Nadal, Dominic Thiem and Elina Svitolina are

Elina Svitolina took the court against an unfamiliar opponent in Bianca Andreescu on Friday night in Indian Wells, and couldn’t slow her roll, falling 6-3, 2-6, 6-4. It was a challenging task for Svitolina to go up against a newcomer for the first time, especially on a big stage as

Two-time Grand Slam champion Victoria Azarenka could be finally turning the corner. She has won five matches in a row and will now play in the Western & Southern Open final against Naomi Osaka. It's her first WTA final since Monterrey in April 2019, and her biggest WTA final since

From a macro, casual-fan standpoint, it hasn’t been a banner week for the WTA in Indian Wells. For wildly varying reasons, four recent Grand Slam champions—Serena Williams, Maria Sharapova, Victoria Azarenka and Petra Kvitova—were missing from the draw. The tour’s No. 1 player, Angelique Kerber, lost early on Stadium 2.

Once upon a time, when these two prodigies were about 16, it looked like they might be meeting in Grand Slam finals someday. It hasn’t worked out that way so far, but they’re getting closer. Vekic, 23, and Bencic, 22, will play for a spot in their first Grand Slam

World number 38 Veronika Kudermetova has reached her second singles final of 2021, today earning a 6-3, 6-3 win over Paula Badosa in the semifinals of the Volvo Car Open in Charleston, South Carolina. Similar to Kudermetova’s quarterfinal victory yesterday versus Sloane Stephens, the highway curved, a winding road of

Coco Gauff had pulled off a string of heroic wins to reach her first semifinal since last August, and she nearly did it again to reach her first WTA 500 final, but Belinda Bencic was too good in the third set of their semifinal clash at the Adelaide International on

Fernando Verdasco has protested his forced withdrawal from Roland Garros, having tested positive for coronavirus. The 36-year-old from Spain said in a statement that he had previously tested positive for the virus in August, but completed his isolation and had two negative tests before returning to training. He also said

HIGHLIGHTS: Roger Federer d. Cameron Norrie, 6-1, 6-1

Each day of the tournament, we'll preview and predict three must-see matches at the French Open. Nadal’s last match, a 6-0, 6-1, 6-0 shellacking of Nikolaz Basilashvili, was one of the all-time blowout wins in tennis history. The question now is whether Nadal can maintain something approaching that level; if

Simona Halep put on a near-flawless performance against Karolina Pliskova in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open on Wednesday, winning in straight sets, 6-3 6-2. Here are five takeaways from the Romanian’s 71-minute victory over the big-serving Czech: 1. She reached the semifinals of the Australian Open for the first

MATCH POINT: Zverev ends Murray's bid

The inaugural ATP Cup is over with Serbia defeating Spain in the final. Now that the madness has come and gone, it's time to look back at five takeaways. 1 If there is one thing tennis is slow on, it's innovation. The ATP and WTA largely prefer to keep traditional