NEW YORK (AP) -- With mentor Martina Hingis cheering from the stands, 17-year-old Belinda Bencic became the youngest U.S. Open quarterfinalist since Hingis herself in 1997. Playing on Arthur Ashe Stadium, ninth-seeded Jelena Jankovic was far more rattled than an opponent 12 years her junior. Bencic won 7-6 (6), 6-3

Japan's Kei Nishikori can win a major on any surface next year, says his coach Michael Chang, a former world No. 2. Chang won his only Grand Slam title at age 17 in 1989. Nishikori reached his first Grand Slam final at the 2014 U.S. Open, falling to Marin Cilic.

After falling to qualifier Mikhail Kukushkin in the quarterfinals of Sydney, Juan Martin del Potro will head to Melbourne for the Australian Open. The former U.S. Open champion, who just returned after a 10-month layoff due to surgery on his left wrist, says that he knows others will be following

The Australian Marinko Matosevic agreed with Andy Murray that winning his first match in a Grand Slam last year has relaxed him. He had suffered 13 defeats in first round attempts until 2014 Roland Garros, when he beat Dustin Brown. He lost to Andy Murray in the second round. "Yeah,

OSTEND, Belgium (AP) Belgium has a great chance to reach the Davis Cup semifinals for the first time since 1999 after Canada came without stalwarts Milos Raonic and Vasek Pospisil. Raonic, ranked No. 8, and Pospisil, No. 27, are injured, leaving Frank Dancevic, at No. 272, as Canada's highest-ranked player.

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland beat defending champion Tomas Berdych for the sixth straight time, winning 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 on Sunday to clinch the World Tennis Tournament for his ninth career title and first indoors. The fourth-seeded Wawrinka, who beat the Czech in the semifinals on the way

Bernard Tomic says he is not interested in mending relations with Tennis Australia while it is witholding funding for his 17-year-old sister. "Until I am satisfied TA is committed to funding the development of junior Australian talent, including my sister Sara, on a non-discriminatory basis, I do not believe there

Fourhand is the Daily Spin's occasional roundup of various hits and misses on tour. AUSTIN ACE Alla Kudryavtseva had a stellar response upon being asked ahead of the Mylan World TeamTennis final just what her game plan would be if she had to play tennis in her favorite heels. (Heels

Rafael Nadal says he would like to have kids, and measures his success not by titles but by his relationships with other people. In an interview with La Nacion, Nadal spoke of how he approaches things off the court, saying that a sporting career is a limited one. Despite being

ROME (AP) In Brindisi, Flavia Pennetta's hometown, there were shouts of joy. In nearby Taranto, Roberta Vinci's hometown, there was appreciative applause amid mild disappointment. Big video screens were set up in both cities of the Puglia region to watch the first all-Italian U.S. Open women's final. With Italian Premier

The Adidas player development program will shut down at the end of the year. The company will no longer employ coaches Darren Cahill and Mats Merkel as well as physical trainer Gil Reyes to work with its players on tour and at the Las Vegas training facility. Coach and broadcaster

Former No. 1 Victoria Azarenka is not satisfied with her current No. 31 ranking, she told the press in Madrid. Azarenka, who lost to Serena Williams after having three match points in Madrid, has said that she wants to become No. 1 again, but that will take quite a while

MELBOURNE—Victoria Azarenka, who crushed Alison Van Uytvanck, 6-0, 6-0, in the first round of the Australian Open, said she wasn’t quite ready to beat the best players when she was very young. “Maybe Miami against [Svetlana] Kuznetsova, I think that might have been the third set,” the 26-year-old said in

NOTTINGHAM, England (AP) Pablo Cuevas reached the first grass-court final of his career Friday after beating Gilles Muller in three sets at the Nottingham Open. Before this week, the Uruguayan had two match wins on grass in his 12-year career. This week he's won four after beating Muller 3-6, 7-6

TOKYO (AP) — Milos Raonic picked up another injury Thursday and was forced to retire from his second-round match at the Japan Open. The 2016 Wimbledon finalist lost the opening game against Yuichi Sugita and then decided to stop while trailing 1-0 because of a right-calf injury. He failed to

Last week, Rafael Nadal beat Novak Djokovic in the semifinals of the Internazionali BNL d'Italia in Rome. Rafa would go on to win the tournament, but what stood out at the event was Djokovic's return to form. For the first time in over a year, Djokovic resembled the player we've

Roger Federer says he plans to have a quiet week before Wimbledon, having played back-to-back events to start his grass-court campaign. Federer, who had not played since Miami, won Stuttgart and reached the finals of Halle, where he fell in three sets to Borna Coric. The world No. 2 said

"Tennis has been unbelievable to me—I've had the opportunities to experience it at a lot of different levels and places." Recently appointed head of men’s tennis at the USTA, Kent Kinnear joins the TENNIS.com Podcast to talk about his new role (02:21) and the future of American men's tennis (04:16).

Court Report: Serena Williams attempts to tie Margaret Court's Grand Slam record in Melbourne

HOUSTON (AP) — Two-time defending champion Steve Johnson's nine-match winning streak at the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championship ended with a 6-3, 6-3 loss to 241st-ranked qualifier Daniel Elahi Galan of Colombia on Thursday. Johnson was beaten in the second round, but it was his opening match this year at