Serena Williams was beaten 6-3, 6-7 (6) 6-3 by 20-year-old Maya Joint of Australia in her first professional singles match in nearly four years in the opening round of Wimbledon.

Serena Williams had to talk herself into accepting Wimbledon’s offer to play singles.

Aryna Sabalenka’s diamonds sparkled in the sunshine when she won her first-round match at the heat-soaked French Open.

Jannik Sinner is set to begin his quest for a career Grand Slam at the French Open this weekend.

Jannik Sinner rolled to a 6-4, 6-4 victory over Jiri Lehecka to capture the Miami Open title and complete the “Sunshine Double’’ a day after Aryna Sabalenka accomplished the same feat in a win over Coco Gauff.

Daniil Medvedev handed top-seeded Carlos Alcaraz his first loss of the year and advanced to the final at Indian Wells with a 6-3, 7-6 (3) victory.

Jasmine Paolini beats Jessica Pegula on the fourth match point as defending champion Italy wins the Billie Jean King Cup with a comprehensive victory over the United States.

American tennis star Taylor Townsend has apologized for making disparaging comments about Chinese food before the United States plays Kazakhstan at the Billie Jean King Cup Finals in Shenzhen, China.

Gabriela Dabrowski and Erin Routliffe won the U.S. Open women's doubles title for the second time in three years by beating the top-ranked duo of Taylor Townsend and Katerina Siniakova.

Venus Williams' run at the U.S. Open is over.

Carlos Alcaraz finger-wagged the crowd, beat Jiri Lehecka to the net and cruised his way into the semifinals at the U.S. Open.

Taylor Townsend couldn’t convert eight match points in a second set that ended with a 25-minute tiebreaker and was eliminated from the U.S. Open on Sunday with a 1-6, 7-6 (13), 6-3 loss to Barbora Krejcikova.

Jessica Pegula is back in the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam tournament, which used to be her roadblock.

Jelena Ostapenko has apologized on social media for telling Taylor Townsend she had “no education” after losing to her at the U.S. Open earlier in the week.

Two episodes at this year's U.S. Open have shown that not every postmatch handshake in tennis goes well.

Taylor Townsend does not have the star power or the name recognition of fellow Americans Coco Gauff or Jessica Pegula, and she's not even seeded in singles play the U.S. Open.

Naomi Osaka is back in the third round of the U.S. Open for the first time since 2021, the year after she won her second championship at Flushing Meadows.

U.S. Open opponents Taylor Townsend and Jelena Ostapenko got into a face-to-face argument on the Court 11 sideline right after their second-round match ended.

Leylah Fernandez has collected the biggest title of her career at the D.

There are plenty of reasons why this particular victory by Venus Williams in this particular tennis match resonates with so many folks.

Venus Williams is paired with Reilly Opelka, and Wimbledon runner-up Amanda Anisimova is joined by Holger Rune on the updated list of teams signed up to try to enter the newfangled U.S. Open mixed doubles tournament.

Former U.S. Open doubles champion Gabriela Dabrowski has revealed she played through 2024 while undergoing treatment for breast cancer.

Taylor Townsend says Donald Young has been in her life for as long as she can remember.

Players at the U.S. Open describe doubles like dating.

Frances Tiafoe is getting the rematch he wants, a second shot at Ben Shelton at the U.S. Open.

After seeing longtime doubles partner Barbora Krejcikova win the Wimbledon singles title, Katerina Siniakova went out on Centre Court and added another Grand Slam trophy to her own collection.

There will be at least one American man in the U.S. Open quarterfinals because two will face each other in the fourth round.

Caty McNally is one of the few women who played at Wimbledon with a female coach — her mother, Lynn Nabors McNally.

Casper Ruud has become the first Norwegian man to reach a Grand Slam singles final by eliminating 2014 U.S. Open champion Marin Cilic 3-6, 6-4, 6-2, 6-2 at Roland Garros.

In this Sept. 23, 1970, photo provided the Houston Library, tennis players hold up $1 bills after signing a contract with World Tennis magazine publisher Gladys Heldman to turn pro and start the Virginia Slims tennis circuit. The Original 9 will gather by Zoom to celebrate the inaugural Virginia Slims event. It included the Welsh Open Women’s Championship, the U.S. Eastern Women’s Grass Court Championship and the U.S. She called it “perfect timing” when tobacco ads were banned on TV in 1971, making a budget available for Philip Morris to sponsor the women's tennis circuit. Heldman quickly set up the $7,500-purse Virginia Slims Invitational in Houston for the same week as Kramer’s event.