The Latest on Wimbledon (all times local): 6:35 p.m. Play at Wimbledon has been halted because of rain. Roger Federer was playing Lorenzo Sonego on Centre Court with their fourth-round match level 5-5 in the first set when play was stopped. Alexander Zverev was in the fifth set against Felix

MONTREAL—When two players in the upper regions of the game meet for the first time, it's always intriguing to discover if the matchup favors one player or the other. Daniil Medvedev walked on court for his Rogers Cup final round skirmish with Rafael Nadal determined to impose himself, to set

LONDON—Sometimes a match you intended would function as a footnote to the day’s action turns out to be the best, or at least the most fully-realized, of the lot. That’s the way it works out with David Nalbandian’s match against Vasek Pospisil, shuffled to the smaller, more intimate surroundings of

In the corridors of power at the O2 Arena—home of the approaching ATP World Tour Finals—and hotels in central London, there is chatter going on about changing the method of calculating the men's rankings, going from a one-year/12-month cycle of results to a two-year/24-month cycle. Rafael Nadal, along with other

PARIS (AP)—Roger Federer made his way back into the French Open semifinals on Tuesday, and he’ll now get a chance to end Novak Djokovic’s perfect season. The 16-time Grand Slam champion advanced by beating Gael Monfils of France 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 (3), making it five straight-set wins in a row

WIMBLEDON, England (AP)—The King of Clay passed up a chance to meet the Queen of England. Rafael Nadal had another priority—winning at Wimbledon. Queen Elizabeth II visited the All England Club for the first time since 1977 and met a small group of current and former players, including Roger Federer

When it comes to choosing a racquet, I’ve always been a fair-weather player. Nothing but a No. 1's frame will do for me. I started, in the early 1980s, with my first idol Bjorn Borg’s orange and black Donnay, a sledgehammer carved out of wood. Under pressure from the midsize

Before this evening, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal had played 11 times since meeting in the 2009 Australian Open final, a five-set drama that followed the peak of their rivalry, the 2008 Wimbledon final. Seven of those matches ended in straight sets, and none of the other four matches featured

INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP)—Top-ranked Novak Djokovic defeated Nicolas Almagro 6-3, 6-4, winning the final three games of the match to reach the semifinals of the BNP Paribas Open on Thursday. Ana Ivanovic earned a spot in the women’s semifinals with a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Marion Bartoli, the 16th-ranked Serb’s

NEW YORK—In reaching the fourth round of the U.S. Open, 68th-ranked Donald Young has twice come back to win matches from two sets down. I didn't see any of his first turnaround, in the first round against No. 11 Gilles Simon, but I saw every point of his next trick,

by Pete Bodo I've enjoyed writing Racquet Reaction posts these past few days, taking in the seductive ambience and atmosphere of Monte Carlo. The tournament has made significant infrastructural improvements since I was last there, when the only proper seats were at the Court Central and pterodactyls flew overhead, casting

• by Hannah Wilks, TennisWorld Contributing Writer* Numbers are a big part of any tennis fan's life, and there’s always a day at the year-end championship when the numbers take centre stage. Last year, Andy Murray was denied a place in the semifinals by an abstract mathematical calculation, a del

By Jackie Roe, TW Social Director

If we didn’t know better, we might be tempted to think that the off-season in tennis is too short. How else can you explain why Roger Federer is in the midst of a lengthy, six-match exhibition tour of South America (it started on Dec. 6 and ends on the 15th)?

By Jackie, TW Social Director Happy Friday, TWibe! Thanks to Pete's shout-out to our TennisWorld > Real World Facebook group several days ago, I've received a ton of new member requests. (The one good thing to come out of this Typepad fiasco, perhaps?) Existing members should take a few minutes

The question for the WTA as the WTA Finals get underway in its new home of Singapore is: What could be done to keep the tournament from degenerating into a Singabore? After all, world No. 1 Serena Williams has dominated this event, winning 26 of the 31 matches she’s played

Some of you may remember Blow-Up, the 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni movie that is still considered a seminal piece of film by many of the usual art-crowd suspects, and not just because of that eerie final scene, featuring two clowns (or is it mimes? No, maybe it's illusionists! Oh, heck, what

Yesterday, a ray of sunlight broke through the gloom in which U.S. tennis has been mired lately: Madison Keys and CoCo Vandeweghe won the final warm-up tournaments before the start of Wimbledon. It was the first time a brace of American women won tournaments in the same week since Venus

Rafa_161 By Rosangel Valenti, TW Contributing Editor As many of you know, I spent several days watching tennis live last week, at the Real Club de Tenis Barcelona. It was the tenth stop on the 'Rafa Euro-Spectator Slam'. It was even hotter than Monte Carlo last week - I now

• Picby Pete Bodo* If it really is true that "getting there is half the fun," the United States Fed Cup team is going to have a whale of a time in its upcoming tie at the Superior Golf and Spa and Resort in Kharkiv, Ukraine. When Team USA captain