Tennis

Many do not recall her 1979 victory in the tournament, which is about to begin this week in a country ravaged by fire. More

In 2010, the three best players on the ATP Tour were Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic. A decade later, they retain the top three rankings. Still, eventually new names will rise to the top. Dominic Thiem, Alexander Zverev, Stefanos Tsitsipas and Daniil Medvedev combined for dozens of singles titles in recent years and […] More

MELBOURNE, Australia — In the shadow of the country’s bushfire crisis, the best tennis players in the world have traveled to Australia for the first Grand Slam event of the decade. There will, however, be some notable absences when the Australian Open begins on Monday. Bianca Andreescu, the 19-year-old Canadian who won the United States […] More

BRADENTON, Fla. — With her tennis career taking flight at age 17, Amanda Anisimova was abruptly grounded: out of last year’s United States Open as she grieved. Her father, Konstantin Anisimov, was just 52 when he died of a heart attack on Aug. 19, one week before the start of the year’s final Grand Slam […] More

MELBOURNE, Australia — In only her third Grand Slam event, Coco Gauff has challenges lined up that will already be familiar to her, as revealed in the Australian Open draw ceremony on Thursday evening. Gauff, 15, will open in the first round against seven-time Grand Slam champion Venus Williams, 39, as she did in the […] More

Serena Williams won her first singles title since giving birth, defeating unseeded American Jessica Pegula 6-3, 6-4 to win the ASB Classic on Sunday in Auckland, New Zealand. Though the implications for next week’s Australian Open are unclear, it was abundantly clear how much this long-awaited victory meant to the 38-year-old Williams. After finishing off […] More

Caroline Wozniacki, who spent 71 weeks as the No. 1 player in the world, but did not win a Grand Slam event until the twilight of her career, will retire after the Australian Open in January, she said on Friday. “I’ve played professionally since I was 15 years old,” she said in a statement. “I’ve […] More

MADRID — The 2019 men’s tennis season did not end as it had begun for Rafael Nadal. In January, after overcoming his latest round of injury concerns, he faced Novak Djokovic in the final of the Australian Open and looked powerless as Djokovic ripped winners and controlled long rallies seemingly at will. Nadal was a […] More