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
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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
1:35 PM ET Associated Press World TeamTennis CEO Carlos Silva says the league is “still on track for July 12” to open its three-week season and is hoping to select a site this week.a telephone interview Monday with the AP that four cities are “in the mix.” He mentioned Texas and Florida as possible host
10:30 AM ET ESPN News Services The professional tennis tours are extending their suspensions caused by the coronavirus pandemic through at least the end of July. The total number of tournaments scrapped by the ATP, WTA and International Tennis Federation since March now tops 40. “Just like tennis fans, players and tournament hosts all over
10:56 AM ET Associated Press The International Tennis Hall of Fame’s 2020 induction ceremony for Goran Ivanisevic and Conchita Martinez has been canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic. So has the annual men’s grass-court Hall of Fame Open tournament. Kim Clijsters and Andy Roddick, looking at trophies inside the Tennis Hall of Fame, were inducted
9:43 AM ET Novak Djokovic has said he believes he will win the most Grand Slam titles and become the longest-reigning world No. 1 by the time he retires. The Serb has won 17 Grand Slam titles — two less Rafa Nadal and three fewer than Roger Federer — and said he has no doubt
8:10 AM ET Naomi Osaka has opened up about her struggle with shyness and said she is now able to conduct interviews in “full sentences” rather than one-word answers. The tennis season has been halted since early March due to the coronavirus pandemic and Osaka, 22, has used the time to overcome her shyness. “For
4:36 PM ET Associated Press Canada’s National Bank is offering cash grants to each of 23 tennis players from the country who are facing financial issues because of the coronavirus pandemic. Tennis Canada announced the grants of $10,000 to $20,000 in Canadian dollars, or about $7,000 to $14,000 in U.S. dollars, from National Bank on
8:23 AM ET Associated Press Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print Two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova and third-ranked Karolina Pliskova will lead teams in a tennis charity event during the coronavirus pandemic. Pliskova’s team will include her twin sister Kristyna, 2019 French Open runner-up Marketa Vondrousova, Tereza Martincova and Nikola Bartunkova. Kvitova will be
7:43 AM ET Associated Press PARIS — The French Open tennis tournament at Roland Garros could be held without fans later this year, the president of the French Tennis Federation said on Sunday. The clay-court tournament at Roland Garros was initially slated to be held May 24-June 7, but was postponed amid the coronavirus pandemic