NEW YORK -- Serena Williams was fined $17,000 for committing three code violations during her U.S. Open final loss to Naomi Osaka on Saturday. The fines, announced on Sunday by the U.S. Tennis Association, break down to $10,000 for verbal abuse of chair umpire Carlos Ramos, $4,000 for being warned for coaching and $3,000 for breaking her racket....Read more

NEW YORK -- Serena Williams' quest for a record-tying 24th Grand Slam singles title ended on Saturday at the U.S. Open with a flood of tears, accusations of sexist treatment, a smashed racquet, and a firm if misplaced conviction the chair umpire was "a thief" who unjustly took a point from her.

Unfairly overshadowed in the chaos of Williams ...Read more

NEW YORK -- Novak Djokovic and Juan Martin del Potro rediscovered their love for tennis when injuries prevented them from playing and sent their rankings and their spirits plummeting. Djokovic's elbow had bothered him for two years; he finally chose surgery that cut his 2017 season in half. Del Potro waited years to find the right remedy for ...Read more

NEW YORK -- Naomi Osaka grew up idolizing Serena Williams but never got her autograph. "You know how there are kids that are really close?" Osaka said of fans who crowd around athletes and clamor for signatures. "I don't think I was ever close enough to ask her."

Osaka will be within easy reach of Williams on Saturday during the U.S. Open women...Read more

NEW YORK -- The master will face her most eager disciple for the U.S. Open women's title, the paths of Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka intersecting to create a moment worth celebrating.

A year ago at this time, Williams was between the third and fourth surgeries she required for complications that followed the birth of her daughter. On Thursday...Read more

NEW YORK -- Roger Federer's brilliance is indisputable, a constant through his 20 Grand Slam singles championships and his record 310 weeks atop the world rankings. He's graceful, disciplined, a statesman for the sport.

"He's the ultimate role model to anyone who wants to play," Nick Kyrgios said, his admiration undimmed after his 6-4, 6-1, 7-5...Read more

NEW YORK -- There is no other way to frame this than to marvel, not for the first time and surely not the last, at Serena Williams' resilience and unparalleled talent. One day short of a year since she gave birth to her daughter by cesarean section and subsequently endured life-threatening complications, barely five months since she returned to ...Read more

NEW YORK -- Chris Evert, a six-time U.S Open champion and 18-time Grand Slam winner who's now an analyst for ESPN, gave Serena Williams the "slight edge" in Friday's third-round U.S. Open match between Serena and Venus Williams.

Evert based that on the progress Serena has recently made in her return from maternity leave and the fact that Venus ...Read more

NEW YORK -- Nick Kyrgios, free spirit that he is, doesn't have a coach. Whether the 23-year-old Australian received illegal coaching aid from an unlikely source -- the chair umpire assigned to his second-round U.S. Open match against Pierre-Hugues Herbert -- became a point of contention Thursday. It also brought another dash of chaos to a ...Read more

NEW YORK -- There were moments Tuesday when Novak Djokovic's complexion took on the same bilious, blue-green tone as his shirt and it seemed inevitable he'd need the bucket placed near his chair at Arthur Ashe Stadium.

"It was so warm," he said. "It feels like everything is boiling in your body; the brain, everything."

The high temperatures ...Read more

WIMBLEDON, England -- After days of grueling, thrilling, relentless matches, with hold-your-breath serves and slap-your-forehead rallies, this championship took an anticlimactic turn.

Wimbledon went out with a whimper.

Yawn tennis.

Novak Djokovic needed just three sets to dispatch Kevin Anderson 6-2, 6-2, 7-6 (3) to claim his fourth singles ...Read more

LONDON -- Novak Djokovic claimed his fourth Wimbledon title with a resounding 6-2, 6-2, 7-6 (7-3) triumph over South African eighth seed Kevin Anderson at the All England Club on Sunday.

With victory as the world No. 21, Djokovic becomes the lowest-ranked player to lift the trophy since Goran Ivanisevic in 2001 and will return to the top 10 in ...Read more

LONDON -- Advantage: Nobody.

The Wimbledon men's singles final is back to deuce.

Novak Djokovic survived an exhausting marathon of his own Saturday -- they're happening every day in this championship -- to beat Rafael Nadal in a five-set match that would leave even the fittest players rubber-legged. In a match between familiar foes that ...Read more

LONDON -- The long road back to tennis relevance had an abrupt off-ramp Saturday for Serena Williams, who suffered a rare Wimbledon defeat.

Angelique Kerber made short work of the 23-time Grand Slam singles champion, beating her 6-3, 6-3 in a brisk 1 hour, 5 minutes -- or more than four hours quicker than either of the men's semifinals.

"She ...Read more