11:11 AM ET Roger Federer has taken over as the highest-paid athlete in Forbes annual earnings report, topping Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi who have held the No. 1 spot in three of the last four years. Federer earned $106 million pre-tax, edging out Ronaldo by about $1 million to take over No. 1. According
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10:54 AM ET Associated Press Dominic Thiem, Alexander Zverev and Nick Kyrgios will play exhibition tennis matches in Berlin in July amid the coronavirus pandemic. One exhibition event will run from July 13 to 15 on grass and another on a hard court in a hangar in the city’s closed Tempelhof airport from July 17
6:51 AM ET Andy Murray will make his return to tennis at a behind-closed-doors tournament organised by his brother Jamie from June 23-28 in London, the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) said on Friday. Murray, 33, has not competed since the Davis Cup Finals in November due to complications with his hip. He was targeting a
10:20 PM ET ESPN News Services Back in Serbia after a two-month stay in Spain amid the coronavirus pandemic, Novak Djokovic says he’s in good shape and ready to play. Before the season resumes in earnest, Djokovic will play in a round-robin tournament that he is organizing, the Adria Tour, which is slated to begin
12:35 PM ET Charleston, where the annual WTA tournament scheduled for early April became just the third tennis event forced to cancel due to the coronavirus pandemic, will have a pro tennis event in 2020 after all. But it will look nothing like the event that has been a staple of the WTA Tour since
9:36 AM ET Associated Press The French tennis federation will set aside €9 million ($9.8 million) for its players who financially struggle as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. The money will come from a larger €35 million ($38.1 million) support plan for French tennis as a whole. It will go to the players ranked
May 25, 2020 New Zealand will stage a team-based tennis tournament for local-based men’s players from June 3, organisers said on Monday. The event will mark the southern hemisphere’s first professional competition since the coronavirus pandemic brought global sport to a halt. All 112 matches of the “NZ Premier League” will be played in Auckland
7:58 AM ET World No. 27, Nikoloz Basilashvili, has been charged with assaulting his former wife, his lawyer Irma Chkadua said. The Georgian has denied allegations that he attacked his former wife in front of their five-year-old son and he has been released on $26,000 bail. The preliminary court hearing is scheduled for July 16.
3:00 PM ET World TeamTennis will compress its 2020 season into a three-week, single-site event featuring nine teams starting July 12 at The Greenbrier, a resort in West Virginia, sources familiar with the plan confirmed to ESPN. The players scheduled to participate include Grand Slam singles champions Sloane Stephens and Sofia Kenin, doubles icons Bob
1:48 PM ET ESPN News Services Naomi Osaka has been a Grand Slam champion and No. 1 in the WTA rankings. Now she is No. 1 on another list: top-earning female athlete. According to a story posted on Forbes.com on Friday, the 22-year-old player earned $37.4 million from June 1, 2019, to June 1, 2020,
11:44 AM ET Associated Press Novak Djokovic is planning to set up a series of tennis tournaments in the Balkan region while the sport is suspended amid the coronavirus pandemic. The top-ranked player’s media team says the Adria Tour will start in Belgrade on June 13 and end on July 5 with Djokovic’s exhibition match
6:20 AM ET Associated Press BRISBANE, Australia — Ashley Cooper, who won four Grand Slam singles titles including the Australian, Wimbledon and U.S. championships in 1958, has died. He was 83. Tennis Australia said Friday that the former No. 1-ranked player and longtime administrator had died after a long illness. Cooper led Australia’s Davis Cup
8:33 AM ET The debate about the best player to never win a Grand Slam has added poignancy now that the French Open, originally slated to start this week, is postponed and Wimbledon has been canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic. The topic has become even more compelling in an era dominated by the ATP’s
8:58 AM ET The French Open, which was to have started this week, has been postponed and Wimbledon was canceled. The US Open also might not happen because of the coronavirus pandemic. It’s a painful reminder that Grand Slam events are rare and precious opportunities for the players. Nobody understands that better than the perennial
7:30 PM ET ESPN News Services The ATP is offering mental health support to players by partnering with a group founded by former England and Arsenal soccer player Tony Adams. The men’s professional tennis tour said it will be working with Adams’ Sporting Chance to provide a 24-7 helpline with therapists. 1 Related The tour
8:57 AM ET “I believe I can win the most Slams and break the record for longest No. 1. Those are definitely my clear goals.” That’s what Novak Djokovic said on “In Depth with Graham Bensinger” last week. It was a pretty innocuous comment, especially by Djokovic’s standards, but it made waves in allowing us
9:04 AM ET D’Arcy MaineESPNW Writer Across the NCAA, seniors were left asking “What if?” in March, after the coronavirus pandemic canceled the remaining winter and spring sporting events. Here are the stories that show the sudden, complicated, controversial and emotional endings athletes have been coming to grips with over the past few weeks. On
7:00 AM ET “This sport has a way of making you feel irrelevant while at the same time giving you this sense of entitlement … Chances are if you were once ‘talk of the town,’ that will quickly diminish over time.”— Noah Rubin, Behind The Racquet AS THE CLOCK crept toward midnight and the winds