Serena Williams’ doubles campaign at Queen’s Club could be over after one match. Victoria Mboko, the American star’s doubles partner, sustained a knee injury in her singles match against Karolina Pliskova on Wednesday.
Canadian tennis stars Félix Auger-Aliassime and Denis Shapovalov joined forces for a 6-3, 7-6 (8) win over Czechia’s Petr Nouza and Austria’s Neil Oberleitner in men’s doubles first-round action Wednesday at the Libema Open.
Canada’s Victoria Mboko withdrew from her first-round match at the HSBC Championships on Wednesday after appearing to sustain an injury during the second set.
After nearly four years away from professional tennis, Serena Williams made a winning return at Queen’s Club on Tuesday.
Leylah Fernandez is out of singles competition at the HSBC Championships grass-court tennis tournament, losing 3-6, 7-6 (4), 7-5 to Britain’s Katie Boulter on Tuesday.
Canadian Gabriel Diallo, the defending champion, dropped his opening match at the Libema Open grass-court tournament Tuesday, falling 6-4, 3-6, 7-5 to France’s Adrian Mannarino.
Canadian tennis players Bianca Andreescu and Denis Shapovalov opened their grass-court seasons with losses in first-round action at the Libema Open on Monday.
Roger Federer will play in an exhibition at the U.S. Open this year, returning to the Grand Slam tournament that he is the only player to win five consecutive times.
The pressure is finally off Alexander Zverev, who played more matches at majors than anyone in the professional era — 125 to be exact — before he won a Grand Slam title.
Alexander Zverev’s victory at the French Open did not dominate the headlines in France on Monday like normally expected for the men’s singles champion.
His calf muscles and thighs hit by cramp, Flavio Cobolli’s body could no longer respond in the fifth set of the French Open final. A first-time Grand Slam finalist, the 24-year-old Italian looked on the verge of a major upset on Sunday before losing in five sets to Alexander Zverev.
Williams, a 23-time Grand Slam champion, will be making her return after a four-year absence at 44 years old when she teams up with Mboko on Tuesday in women’s doubles action.
Tennis great Serena Williams is not ruling out a return to singles competition but suggested Sunday it’s not imminent ahead of her doubles comeback
Alexander Zverev is no longer one of the best players never to win a major title. He’s finally a Grand Slam champion. In his fourth major final, Zverev beat Flavio Cobolli 6-1, 4-6, 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-1 for the French Open title on Sunday.
Chwalińska became the first qualifier in the tournament’s history to reach the final after arriving in Paris as the world No. 114. But fell 6-3, 6-2 to Mirra Andreeva in the final.
Mirra Andreeva is a Grand Slam champion for the first time in her career. The 19-year-old Russian defeated Poland’s Maja Chwalińska 6-3, 6-2 Saturday afternoon in Paris to take home the women’s Roland-Garros title.
No former major champions reached the men’s and women’s semifinals for the first time at a Grand Slam in 49 years. The French Open that concludes this weekend has been unlike any other major tournament in recent memory.
Having spent a large part of the night vomiting and deprived of sleep, Matteo Arnaldi was in no shape to fight for a spot in the French Open final.
Serena Williams’ comeback to tennis will include a stop in Berlin this month.
Alexander Zverev reached the fourth major final of his career after beating 20-year-old Czech Jakub Mensik 7-5, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 in the Roland Garros semifinals on Friday.
Ottawa’s Gabriela Dabrowski and Brazilian partner Luisa Stefani were defeated 6-0, 6-1 by top seeds Katerina Siniakova of Czechia and Taylor Townsend of the United States on Friday in the French Open women’s doubles semifinals.
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