Tennis

Angelique Kerber was so steady, so patient, so accurate throughout the Wimbledon final. She never really gave Serena Williams much of a chance. Kerber won her first championship at the All England Club and third major overall by playing cleanly as can be and picking ...

To say that Kevin Anderson won this interminable Wimbledon semifinal, and that John Isner lost it, didn't really seem fair. To Anderson, anyway. They had played on and on, through 6½ hours of ho-hum hold after ho-hum hold, during the second-longest match in the history ...

Yes, this will be Serena Williams' 10th Wimbledon final. Yes, it's her 30th title match at any major. And, well, sure, she's widely regarded as not just the best of her era, but any era. Let others shrug at this latest accomplishment, as if all ...

Angelique Kerber raced into her second Wimbledon final as the German crushed former French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko 6-3, 6-3 in just 67 minutes on Thursday. Kerber took the express route to her a fourth Grand Slam title match with a blink-and-you-miss-it demolition of Ostapenko ...

Kei Nishikori bowed out of Wimbledon on Wednesday after losing to Novak Djokovic 6-3, 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 in the quarterfinals. The loss marks the end of world No. 28 Nishikori's most successful ever Wimbledon appearance, having reached the final eight for the first time ...

Kei Nishikori bowed out of Wimbledon on Wednesday after losing to Novak Djokovic of Serbia 6-3, 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 in the quarterfinals of the grass-court major. The loss marks the end of world No. 28 Nishikori's most successful-ever Wimbledon appearance, having reached the final eight ...

There are moments in which nothing at all seems different about Serena Williams, moments such as when she unleashed a 175-kph service winner to even her Wimbledon quarterfinal at a set apiece, leaned forward and yelled, loudly as can be, "Cooome ooon!" Or when, about ...

Up until the midway point of the second set of his fourth-round match with Ernests Gulbis, it appeared Manic Monday was going to get the best of Kei Nishikori once again. Having fallen twice previously on the day of Wimbledon's annual tennis smorgasbord — where ...

Kei Nishikori clinched victory in the fourth round of Wimbledon for the first time in his career on Monday after surviving a tough test against Ernests Gulbis, beating the Latvian 4-6, 7-6 (7-5), 7-6 (12-10), 6-1. Later in the day, three-time champion Novak Djokovic cruised ...

Kei Nishikori became the first Japanese man in 23 years to reach the Wimbledon quarterfinals on Monday and then predicted a "war" with Novak Djokovic to get to the last four. Nishikori, 28, overcame an arm injury to reach his first All England Club quarterfinal ...

Kei Nishikori advanced to the fourth round of Wimbledon on Saturday with a 6-1, 7-6 (7-3), 6-4 victory over Australian Nick Kyrgios. But on a day of mixed fortunes for Japan, Naomi Osaka crashed out of the tournament after losing 6-2, 6-4 to Angelique Kerber ...

Venus Williams became the latest former champion to be knocked out at Wimbledon. Her sister Serena is still going strong, though, after overcoming her toughest test so far this week. In the men's third round, Roger Federer's latest victory never looked in doubt as he won ...