LOS ANGELES — Billie Jean King, the tennis legend who shared her painful journey to getting an abortion in her memoir "All In," joined other female athletes calling for the protection of women's reproductive rights.

A draft of a Supreme Court majority opinion striking down abortion rights codified in the landmark Roe vs. Wade ruling was ...Read more

The decision by Wimbledon officials to ban top stars from Russia and Belarus from this summer’s premier grass tennis tournament is short-sighted and unfair, even if it might satisfy those who want to bring maximum pressure to bear on Russian leader Vladimir Putin for the atrocities his forces are committing in Ukraine.

A boycott of Russian ...Read more

NEW YORK — Wimbledon is going to ban players from Russia and Belarus this summer over the invasion of Ukraine.

Several top players and big names will be affected: Russia’s Daniil Medvedev won the U.S. Open last year, and Belarus’ Aryna Sabalenka made the Wimbledon semifinals. All told, there are about a dozen Russian and Belarusian ...Read more

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Much of the buzz around the Miami Open this year has centered on 18-year-old Spanish phenom Carlos Alcaraz, and he certainly will be the fan favorite against Casper Ruud in the men’s final at Hard Rock Stadium on Sunday afternoon.

Alcaraz, aiming to become the youngest champion in tournament’s 37-year history, has ...Read more

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Red and white Polish flags waved from every section of Stadium Court at the Miami Open on a sunny Saturday afternoon as incoming world No. 1 Iga Swiatek continued her dominance of women’s tennis this season with a 6-4, 6-0 win over former No. 1 Naomi Osaka in the championship.

Swiatek has won 17 matches in a row and ...Read more

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Stadium Court is typically the stage for marquee players at the Miami Open, but the most electric crowds so far this week were at the 5,000-seat Grandstand, where two of the sport’s rising stars — Carlos “Carlitos” Alcaraz and Francisco Cerundolo — played their fourth-round matches.

The fact that they are both ...Read more

The Miami Open is underway at Hard Rock Stadium and both top seeds are prohibited from representing their flag or country. Men’s top seed Daniil Medvedev is from Russia and women’s top seed Aryna Sabalenka is from Belarus.

Medvedev is the No. 2 ranked male tennis player in the world and Sabelenka is the fifth-ranked female. They are among ...Read more

NDIAN WELLS, Calif. — Iga Swiatek’s first attempt at lifting the BNP Paribas Open trophy was a no-go. The crystal sculpture was too heavy, its shape too bulky for her to raise it off the table where it sat gleaming in the Sunday afternoon sun.

Swiatek raised her index finger to the crowd, as if to tell the fans who were celebrating her ...Read more

MIAMI — Naomi Osaka has always considered the Miami Open to be her home tournament, as she spent much of her childhood in Pembroke Pines, and a warm, welcoming crowd over the next few weeks is exactly what the former world No. 1 might need after a tearful exit from her last match.

The four-time Grand Slam champion, who has slipped to No. 78 ...Read more

INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — Andrey Rublev intended to express what was on his mind and in his heart. The red-haired Russian didn't expect his simple message to go viral, or that he'd be seen as a hero for staging a personal protest one day after his homeland had brutally invaded Ukraine.

As happens at some tournaments, Rublev was given a marker ...Read more

While Nick Kyrgios ranted, Rafael Nadal remained calm.

While the vastly gifted but explosively volatile Kyrgios threw his racket, scolded fans who told him how to play and repeatedly shouted at professionally proactive chair umpire Carlos Bernardes for not doing a perfect job of crowd control under imperfect conditions, Nadal went about his ...Read more

Naomi Osaka, distraught and in tears after a spectator yelled, "Naomi, you suck," after she had lost the first game of her second-round match against Veronika Kudermetova at the BNP Paribas Open on Saturday night, said the taunt had shaken her because it reminded her of racially charged insults that were directed at Serena and Venus Williams at ...Read more

INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — Rafael Nadal is the ultimate escape artist, but he wondered if he had pushed his luck when he was down 2-5 and two breaks in the third set against Sebastian Korda on Saturday at the BNP Paribas Open. Korda’s backhand was sizzling and his court coverage was exceptional, causing problems Nadal couldn’t solve. “I ...Read more

INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — Dayana Yastremska shouldn’t know so much about the terrible cost of warfare.

The 21-year-old Ukrainian should be able to focus on improving her tennis game, on polishing an aggressive style that has allowed her to rank as high as 21st in the world. She shouldn’t have to be familiar with what to do when civil ...Read more