NEW YORK—The hoodie and headphones Victoria Azarenka wears to warm up for matches make her look like a college kid bopping across campus. Bouncing around the blue court tonight, Azarenka plugged in the power and muted Daniela Hantuchova, 6-2, 6-3, to high-step her way into the U.S. Open final four.

The Australian Open's player ride-along promotion, Kia Open Drive 2013, turned in another share of amusing if not vocally astounding karaoke performances this time around the block. Pros who took part included freshly crowned men's doubles champs Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan, Jelena Jankovic, Fernando Verdasco, Janko Tipsarevic, Svetlana Kuznetsova,

SINGAPORE—Petra Kvitova loves Wimbledon. She has won two titles there, including in 2011 when the left-hander stunned Maria Sharapova in her coming-out party. But against Sharapova over the past four years, it has been another story. The Russian has won their last five matches, and entering today's contest in Singapore,

After losing to Belinda Bencic in her opening-round match at the Rogers Cup in Toronto, world No. 5 Caroline Wozniacki said she shouldn't have played at all this week, but did not want to incur WTA penalties. She was coming off an opening-round loss at Stanford where she had said

NEW YORK—On Thursday, with temperatures soaring into the 90s and players dropping like flies (12 men retired in the first two rounds, which is the highest total for a Slam in the Open era), Johanna Konta won the longest women’s match at the U.S. Open since the introduction of the

Roger Federer hasn't returned from surgery looking like a new player, but he says one part of him feels quite different. The world No. 3 is competing in his first tournament since having arthroscopic knee surgery following the Australian Open. "It just does feel like a different knee," he said

PARIS (AP) — After months of disappointment and a lack of motivation, Andy Murray is counting on the French Open to turn his season around. In November, Murray became the first British man to reach world No. 1 since the rankings were introduced in 1973. The Wimbledon champion also became

David Steinbach has a motto that he’s stuck with throughout his 35 years as a high-school tennis coach: quantity plus quality equals success. It’s an equation that has treated him well. As the coach of the girls’ and boys’ Brookfield Central High School tennis teams, Steinbach has notched over 1,000

Match point between Djokovic and Federer vs. Sock and Anderson:

WATCH—Match point from Marin Cilic's win over Frances Tiafoe in Davis Cup semifinals:

WATCH—Laver Cup 2017 Recap:

WATCH—Novak Djokovic, Maria Sharapova and Madison Keys advance on Day 2:

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,

This week we hear from Dominik Koepfer, a 26-year-old German who has taken one of the more unique paths to the Top 100. After barely competing as a junior, Koepfer played college tennis at Tulane University for four years before taking a shot at the pro tour. Now he's ranked

When Christine Beck and her husband, Leif, launched the Philadelphia chapter of the U.S. National Junior Tennis League (NJTL), a youth-development tennis program, in 1969, they would go door-to-door and ask if children wanted to play. “My husband did most of the knocking,” Christine recalls, “but the bribe was a

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Kei Nishikori of Japan beat American qualifier Austin Krajicek 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 on Friday night in the quarterfinals of the Memphis Open. Nishikori, ranked fifth in the world, shook off eight double-faults and struggled with unforced errors off his backhand. But Nishikori improved to 11-1 in

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) Second-seeded Petra Kvitova beat third-seeded Caroline Wozniacki 7-5, 6-1 on Friday night to reach the Connecticut Open final for the fourth consecutive year. The defending champion will play fourth-seeded Lucie Safarova in an all-Czech Republic final. Safarova held off lucky-loser Lesia Tsurenko of the Ukraine 6-2,

NEW YORK—On Monday night, the U.S. Open allowed ESPN to conduct a mid-match television interview during CoCo Vandeweghe's first-round match with Sloane Stephens. The move stirred up talk among players, but many appear reluctant to agree to giving an interview during their own matches. Under the new rule, a player

SINGAPORE—Simona Halep, who lost to Maria Sharapova in their round-robin match at the WTA Finals, says the five-time Grand Slam champion always plays her best against her. Sharapova is now 6-0 against Halep. In 2014, the Russian won their matches at Roland Garros, Cincinnati, and Madrid. At the WTA Finals,

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) Andy Murray finds it ''hypocritical'' that tennis authorities are trying to stamp out match-fixing run by gambling syndicates but have partnered with a major gambling company that is now advertising on the Australian Open's show courts. The two issues are separate but have collided at this year's