As she seeks a first Wimbledon title, Timea Babos was handed a boost when it was revealed that she will become the new top-ranked women's doubles player. When the new rankings are released next Monday ...

Ninth-seeded John Isner is serving at 3-4 in the fifth set against Belgian qualifier Ruben Bemelmans. After knocking out sixth-seeded Grigor Dimitrov, Stan Wawrinka is struggling to back up his ...

This space was originally reserved for Justine Henin. She might have been having a difficult year, but it didn’t matter. She might have struggling with injuries and having trouble finding her usual ...

With Aryna Sabalenka winning the Australian Open and US Open, Iga Swiatek winning Roland Garros and Barbora Krejcikova winning Wimbledon, 2024 was the first year in a decade that there were no ...

4:05 p.m. ET: Of course the first game of the third set reached 40-40. On the deciding (no-ad) point, Amanda Anisimova put a forehand into the net, giving Alison Riske a 1-0 lead. Would Riske run out ...

Jessica Pegula guaranteed a historic final at the Credit One Charleston Open, ensuring the first all-American final in South Carolina since 1990 after outlasting Ekaterina Alexandrova in three sets.

The women's professional tennis tour is ending its suspension of tournaments in China that was initiated in late 2021 over concerns about Grand Slam doubles champion Peng Shuai's well-being. The WTA ...

The men’s clay season has been riddled with so many holes, questions, caveats, injuries and surprises that it’s high time for a challenge to the crumbling pecking order that features Djokovic, Sinner, ...

WIMBLEDON, ENGLAND—Eugenie Bouchard and Petra Kvitova aren’t friends, have never practiced together, and have rarely, if ever, spoken. “I don’t know her that well,” Bouchard said. Kvitova was even ...

In the world of sports, many a year goes by when the games and the athletes are only tangentially connected to broader social occurrences. Then there’s 1973, a watershed year, when the growth of women ...

Before we get to this week's poll, let's look back at last week's episode of The Ten, which considered the best men's players of all time. Here's how we saw the order, as was revealed in The Ten's ...

A half-century later, Billie Jean King thinks back on the landmark gathering of female tennis players at a London hotel shortly before they competed at Wimbledon and acknowledges she wasn't sure how ...