Ahead of the Italian Open, the 22-year-old reveals how he considered quitting the sport after a number of injury setbacksOver the past couple of years, at the beginning of each new tennis season, the ATP Tour charges some of its top players with predicting the year ahead. It is a bit of fun, a clever way to generate conversation and engagement, but...

Kylie McKenzie says former coach abused her as teenagerUSTA says it intends to lodge appeal over verdictA tennis player has been awarded $9m in damages after she accused the US Tennis Association of failing to protect her from a coach she said sexually abused her at one of its training centers. The lawsuit, filed by Kylie McKenzie in March 2022 in...

Despite sleepless nights struggling with a fever, Andrey Rublev found a way to fight back and win the Madrid Open for the first time. Rublev rallied to beat Felix Auger-Aliassime 4-6, 7-5, 7-5 and in doing so clinched his second Masters 1000 title.Andrey Rublev seals recovery from slump with Madrid Open final triumph Continue reading...

Critics might have fallen for Luca Guadagnino’s erotic tennis romp but it’s a vapid string of disappointing choicesI have spent the week and a half since seeing Challengers on the brink of throwing a racquet-trashing, expletive-scattering, McEnroe-style tantrum. Is Hawkeye working? Did they not see it? How, for an exhausting Mahut-Isner length of huffing...

Russian defeats Felix Auger-Aliassime 4-6, 7-5, 7-5Rublev: ‘I would say this is the most proud title of my career’Andrey Rublev overcame an opening set wobble to beat Felix Auger-Aliassime 4-6, 7-5, 7-5 in the final of the Madrid Open on Sunday to win his second Masters 1000 title.Auger-Aliassime was chasing his first Masters title and looked well set...

The WTA finals host revealed its commitment to women’s rights by jailing a female activistIf a record of sexual apartheid is not the ideal look for a nation that must still, occasionally, placate progressives, news of an extreme example – the lengthy imprisonment of Manahel al-Otaibi, a 29-year-old fitness instructor and women’s rights activist – has...