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Tennis Kenya has acknowledged it erred in granting an Egyptian player entry to a professional tournament after video of her dismal performance circulated on social media.
Aryna Sabalenka has started her title defense at the Brisbane International with a dominant win over Cristina Bucsa.
Venus Williams has lost her first singles match of 2026 to fifth-seeded Magda Linette at the WTA Tour tournament in Auckland, New Zealand.
Australian Open prize money has increased 16% on last year to a record total for the tournament starting January 18.
Novak Djokovic has pulled out of the Australian Open tuneup tournament in Adelaide.
Coco Gauff has tried to clarify her comments about American tennis fans on social media just before her United Cup singles match against Spain's Jessica Bouzas Maneiro.
Novak Djokovic has cut ties with the Professional Tennis Players Association, the players' union he co-founded, saying his values are no longer aligned with the current direction of the organization.
Stan Wawrinka's 40-year-old legs didn't let him down over three-plus hours in his first singles match of a 2026 farewell tour.
Four-time Grand Slam singles champion Naomi Osaka is feeling under the weather at the United Cup at Perth.
Seven-time Grand Slam singles champion Venus Williams has received a wild-card entry for the Australian Open beginning Jan. 18 in Melbourne.
Just over six weeks since the ATP and WTA held their respective 2025 Finals, players on the women's and men's tennis tours are arriving Down Under for a crammed two-week schedule of tournaments ahead of the start of the Australian Open in Melbourne on January 18.
Tyler Tanner scored the first five points of the game and finished with 23 as No. 11 Vanderbilt never trailed and routed New Haven 96-53.
Nick Kyrgios has won the latest version of the "Battle of the Sexes" in tennis.
Jack Draper will not be fit for next month's Australian Open.
Venus Williams and Andrea Preti are married.
Georgia has announced a contract extension and raise for athletic director Josh Brooks following back-to-back Southeastern Conference championships in football and national championships in women's tennis, women's track and equestrian.
Three-time major winner Stan Wawrinka says 2026 will be his last year on tour.
The ATP Tour has set out a new safeguarding policy which aims to ensure players and staff feel safe from abuse on tour and know how to report inappropriate behavior.
Chinese tennis player Pang Renlong has been banned for 12 years and fined $110,000 for a match-fixing spree involving 22 matches in a five-month period.
Top-ranked Carlos Alcaraz is parting ways with his longtime coach Juan Carlos Ferrero.
Olivia Miles had her third consecutive triple-double for No. 9 TCU and Marta Suarez had the first in her career, making them only the second set of NCAA Division I teammates to do that in the same game.
The ATP Tour is adding a rule to address extreme heat during men's professional tennis matches that will allow for 10-minute breaks during best-of-three-sets singles matches starting next season.
Aryna Sabalenka has won her second consecutive WTA Tour Player of the Year award.
Janiah Barker scored 20 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, Mia Pauldo also had a double-double, and No. 18 Tennessee routed Winthrop 112-40.
Vicky Mboko, Janice Tjen, Lilli Tagger, Arnaud Bailly and Luka Mikrut have been selected by a panel as the International Tennis Federation's Class of 2025.
Rafael Nadal has undergone surgery to relieve pain and gain mobility in his right hand.
The International Tennis Integrity Agency has suspended French tennis player Quentin Folliot for 20 years and fined him $70,000 for match-fixing.
Carlos Alcaraz wanted to play in front of an energetic crowd at the inaugural Miami Invitational.
Retired French tennis player Caroline Garcia has turned down a $270,000 sponsorship deal for her podcast from a betting company.
Russian-born Anastasia Potapova has switched allegiance to Austria which clears a path for the 51st-ranked player to compete in the Billie Jean King Cup.
Hundreds of people paid their final respects to Nicola Pietrangeli days after the tennis great died aged 92.
Serena Williams has thrown cold water on the idea that she might be preparing to return to tennis.
Lindsay Davenport has signed a two-year contract renewal to remain the Billie Jean King Cup captain for the United States.
Italian tennis champion of the 1950s and 1960s Nicola Pietrangeli whose records were only recently broken by Jannik Sinner has died.
Andy Murray says he was "disappointed" with Novak Djokovic's results during his time coaching his former rival.
Carlos Alcaraz recently wrapped up his 2025 official schedule with the ATP's year-end No. 1 ranking, tour-highs of 71 match wins and eight trophies and a pair of Grand Slam titles that lifted his career total to six.
Michael Zheng of Columbia became the ninth men's tennis player to repeat as an NCAA champion and set an NCAA record for career tournament wins in the process.
Italy remains the king of the Davis Cup and didn't even need Jannik Sinner this time.
Spain has reached the Davis Cup final after Marcel Granollers and Pedro Martínez defeated Germany's Tim Pütz and Kevin Krawietz in doubles.
Two-time defending champion Italy reached the Davis Cup final after Flavio Cobolli beat Zizou Bergs of Belgium 6-3, 6-7, 7-6 in Bologna.
Marcel Granollers and Pedro Martinez have defeated Tomas Machac and Jakub Mensik in tiebreakers to help Spain rally past Czech Republic in Davis Cup quarterfinals at Bologna.
Two-time Grand Slam singles champion Lleyton Hewitt's return from retirement has ended after two matches.
Roger Federer has been elected to the International Tennis Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility.
Flavio Cobolli has beaten Filip Misolic 6-1, 6-3 to clinch a 2-0 victory for two-time defending champion Italy over Austria and set up a Davis Cup semifinal against Belgium.
Two-time Grand Slam singles champion Lleyton Hewitt's return from retirement was short-lived on Wednesday in doubles with his son Cruz, but only in the best possible way.
Carlos Alcaraz has withdrawn from the Davis Cup Finals in Italy because of a right hamstring injury.
Zizou Bergs has beaten Arthur Rinderknech 6-3, 7-6 (4) to send Belgium into the Davis Cup semifinals with a 2-0 victory over 10-time champion France.
Scott McTominay scored a superb bicycle kick goal three minutes into Scotland's match against Denmark in European qualifying for the 2026 World Cup.
Naomi Osaka has withdrawn from the ASB Classic in New Zealand in January to instead play for Japan in the United Cup in Australia.
Even if the Davis Cup Final 8 this week in Bologna, Italy, is the sixth edition of the team competition to have the champion decided at a neutral site, there are those who would prefer to see some more changes.
Former player Eric Butorac will replace Stacey Allaster as the U.S. Open's tournament director.
The rivalry between Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz blossomed into full-blown dominance in 2025.
