Tennis

Kei Nishikori defeated world No. 4 Grigor Dimitrov in three sets on Wednesday to advance to the third round of the Italian Open. Nishikori, ranked 24th in the world, lost the first set in a tie break before coming back to beat the third seed ...

Needing a couple of wins this week to hold on to her No. 1 ranking, Simona Halep routed Naomi Osaka 6-1, 6-0 Wednesday in the second round of the Italian Open. It was a sharp turnaround from when Osaka lost only three games against Halep ...

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga has lost his race for fitness for Roland Garros after surgery on his left knee, the 2013 and 2015 French Open semi-finalist confirmed on Monday. No Frenchman has won at Roland Garros since Yannick Noah in 1983 and Tsonga's two previous semifinal runs ...

Looking to revive his clay-court game ahead of Roland Garros, Kei Nishikori defeated Feliciano Lopez 7-6 (7-5), 6-4 Monday in the first round of the Italian Open. It was Nishikori's first victory since reaching the final of the Monte Carlo Masters last month. In his ...

Kei Nishikori advanced to the second round of the men's singles at the Italian Open after beating Spain's Feliciano Lopez in straight sets on Monday. Nishikori converted two break points and capitalized on Lopez's 31 unforced errors at the Foro Italico to beat the No. ...

Rafael Nadal suffered a shock 7-5, 6-3 defeat by Austrian Dominic Thiem in the Madrid Open quarterfinals on Friday, a result that means the Spaniard will lose the world No. 1 ranking. Thiem, who lost to Nadal in the Monte Carlo quarterfinals last month, was ...

Rafael Nadal broke John McEnroe's record of 49 straight sets won on the same surface by beating Diego Schwartzman 6-3, 6-4 in the third round of the Madrid Open on Thursday. Nadal extended his winning streak to 50 consecutive sets on clay, eclipsing the mark ...

Novak Djokovic added another early elimination to his disappointing season, while Rafael Nadal continued to look invincible on clay. Djokovic lost to Kyle Edmund 6-3, 2-6, 6-3 on Wednesday in the second round of the Madrid Open, the sixth straight tournament in which he has ...

Yuichi Sugita fell in the first round of the Madrid Open on Tuesday, a day after countryman Kei Nishikori also fell at the first hurdle. Sugita, ranked 46th in the world, lost 6-4, 6-3 to Germany's Philipp Kohlschreiber in his first career match with the ...

Kei Nishikori lost to former world No. 1 Novak Djokovic on Monday in a tight two-setter in the first round of the Madrid Open, going down 7-5, 6-4. Nishikori, ranked 20th in the world, fought hard to avoid an 11th straight defeat against the 10th-seeded ...

Taro Daniel claimed his first ATP World Tour title Sunday after defeating Tunisia's Malek Jaziri in straight sets to win the Istanbul Open. Daniel beat Jaziri 7-6 (7-4), 6-4 to win the ATP World Tour 250-level clay-court tournament at Garanti Koza Arena and cap off ...