MADRID (AP) Defending champion Andy Murray says he won't be living in the Olympic Village in Rio de Janeiro, preferring to stay at an apartment with the British tennis team. Murray stayed in the athletes' village in Beijing in 2008, but not in London in 2012, when he won the

PARIS (AP) Five of the first 10 times Venus Williams entered the French Open, she made it to at least the quarterfinals, including a run to the final in 2002. Her most recent trip to Roland Garros of that length? That came all the way back in 2006. Williams can

Ernests Gulbis is no longer working with his coach, Gunter Bresnik, citing the difficulties of sharing a coach with another player. The veteran Austrian coach has been working with Gulbis and Dominic Thiem for several years, though Gulbis stopped working with Bresnik temporarily for a few months about a year

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

LONDON (AP) Back at Wimbledon for the first time since she found out two years ago she had cancer, Vicky Duval felt her eyes welling with tears. The 20-year-old American was moved, yes, by merely being on court once again at the grass-court Grand Slam tournament. And she also was

LONDON (AP) — The warmup lasted longer than the actual competitive portion of Sam Querrey's day at Wimbledon. This is all Querrey wound up needing to play Saturday in the ever-so-brief resumption of a match against 12th-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France suspended the night before because of darkness at 6-5

A peculiarly scorching sun had its way with the Wimbledon grass over this fortnight. But the sun also sets. Here, our ongoing roundup of passing shots from SW19, a curated much-ado-about-everything – if a bit less manicured than the Wimble-lawns themselves. See No. 4. 3 Sometimes Serena Williams seems clairvoyant.

As I travel the world giving clinics and motivational messages, I have found that talking about character is of high interest to people of all ages and in all walks of life. To begin with, the world seems to be going in many different directions. No matter who you are,

Reilly Opelka's comeback to tour-level tennis ended Saturday at the hands of fellow American, 19-year-old Alex Michelsen, in the sem.finals of the Infosys Hall of Fame Open. Michelsen, the No. 3 seed, returned to the final with a 6-2, 6-0 win, ending Opelka's effort in his first tournament since 2022.

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Lucas Pouille kept his breakthrough run going at the Australian Open on Wednesday, putting on a returning display to beat Milos Raonic, 7-6 (4), 6-3, 6-7 (2), 6-4, to reach his first Grand Slam semifinal. Going into the match, the numbers definitely favored Raonic—not only had he been past the

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Ash Barty was flying home across Australia following the Fed Cup final when she saw the early signs of devastation from the wildfires that are still raging in large parts of the vast island continent. So the problem hasn't just dawned on her, the highest-profile tennis

President Theodore Roosevelt was the quote machine of his time, arguably the first American president to grasp the power of what would later be called a sound bite. Having installed the first White House tennis court back in 1902, Roosevelt likely would have appreciated the way a particular tennis champion

The WTA announced the latest revisions to its ranking system on Thursday, and they’ll start to take effect on Monday, April 5, 2021—the rankings that follow the WTA 1000 event in Miami. Questions have been raised recently about how long players should be hanging onto ranking points at this point.

NEW YORK—Yulia Putintseva issued a second apology on social media on Wednesday after a moment from her third-round defeat to Jasmine Paolini went viral for an awkward interaction with a ball girl. Fan footage of the incident appeared to show Putintseva, the No. 30 seed, ignoring the young woman as

Last week she tied seventh place, and this week it’s all hers. Iga Swiatek has passed Ashleigh Barty for seventh-most weeks at No. 1 in WTA rankings history, this being her 122nd at the top spot. Official WTA rankings began on November 3rd, 1975. MOST CAREER WEEKS AS WTA NO.

Roger Federer continued his perfect start to the season on Wednesday afternoon, beating Jeremy Chardy 7-5, 6-4 in an hour and 22 minutes for a spot in the quarterfinals of the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells. Here are five takeaways from the world No. 1’s straight-set victory over the

Juan Martin del Potro continued his impressive week at the Abierto Mexicano TELCEL on Friday night, defeating Alexander Zverev, 6-4 6-2, to reach the final at the ATP World Tour 500-level event. 1. He didn’t drop serve once. Del Potro not only held all nine of his service games, he