Joy, elation, exuberance. To be sure, those emotions were apparent in Kei Nishikori in the moments after he won his first ATP title in 2 years, 10 months and 23 days on Sunday. But most of all, the world No. 9 looked relieved. Relieved to have ...

Naomi Osaka made her Centre Court debut in July at Wimbledon and looked every bit the part of a player who wasn't ready for prime time. "I wasn't nervous. I just think I was very overwhelmed," Osaka told reporters following her straight-sets defeat to Angelique ...

Kei Nishikori’s title drought continues. Even a lively home crowd wasn’t enough to push the Japanese No. 1 to an elusive tournament victory on Sunday at the Rakuten Japan Open as Russian Daniil Medvedev played spoiler at the Musashino Forest Sports Plaza, besting the home ...

At 40-30, Yoshihito Nishioka fired a second serve up the middle and watched as his opponent dumped a return into the net. It was a routine point at an opportune time, with the error from Pierre-Hugues Herbert coming on Nishioka's fifth championship point in the ...

Karolina Pliskova has accomplished what 10 others have tried and failed to do over the past month: beat Naomi Osaka. The hard-serving Czech spoiled the party in front of a decidedly pro-Osaka crowd in Tokyo on Sunday, taking the Toray Pan Pacific Open title with ...

It was March and Naomi Osaka had just won the biggest match of her life, fulfilling the promise that many pundits had long foreseen. But it wasn't just her brilliant game that had the tennis world abuzz — it was her awkward personality and down-to-earth ...

Naomi Osaka fired an unreturnable serve, pulled her visor down over her eyes and strolled to the net to hug her childhood idol. For the first time on a drama-filled Saturday evening in New York, the 20-year-old looked overwhelmed. Playing in her first ...

At just 17 years of age, Serena Williams won her first Grand Slam singles title at the 1999 U.S. Open. Fifteen months younger than her sister Venus, Serena did what big sis failed to do in the 1997 tournament and topped World No. 1 Martina ...

Onlookers who wrote Naomi Osaka off in the early stages of the deciding set of her fourth-round encounter with Aryna Sabalenka can probably be given a pass. Judging by her body language, the 20-year-old may have been close to throwing in the towel herself. Down a ...