KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. -- The Miami Open suffered a double blow on Saturday, as both the men's and women's top seeds were eliminated far earlier than anyone expected.

Defending champion Roger Federer was beaten 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7-4) by 175th-ranked qualifier Thanasi Kokkinakis of Australia. Kokkinakis is the lowest ranked player to topple a world No....Read more

KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. -- Former world No. 1 Novak Djokovic, back on tour after elbow troubles, continues to struggle. He was knocked out the Miami Open in the second round Friday afternoon, 6-3, 6-4 by Benoit Paire, the unseeded 47th-ranked player from France.

Djokovic is a six-time Miami Open champion. He had won 16 matches in a row on Key ...Read more

Serena Williams' return to the Miami Open lasted just over an hour. The 23-time Grand Slam champion was eliminated 6-3, 6-2 in the first round by rising 20-year-old star Naomi Asaka early Wednesday evening.

It was Williams' earliest-ever exit at the Key Biscayne tournament. She had never lost before the Round of 16.

Immediately after the match...Read more

Juan Martin del Potro's first order of business upon arriving in Miami on Monday was going out for a nice dinner to celebrate his thrilling victory over top-ranked Roger Federer the day before in the final of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, Calif.

Del Potro wouldn't reveal where he and his friends ate, but judging by the size of his smile...Read more

INDIAN WELLS, Calif. -- Sometime between his third and fourth wrist surgeries, feeling no relief from his debilitating pain and seeing little reason to believe he would regain the top-five form that brought him the U.S. Open title in 2009, Juan Martin del Potro considered retirement. His backhand was feeble. His spirit was broken.

After the ...Read more

INDIAN WELLS, Calif. -- It was over. Wasn't it? Borna Coric thought so.

The 21-year-old Croatian was playing superbly, pressuring Roger Federer's backhand and putting the world's No. 1 player down a set and a break in the second set of their semifinal Saturday morning at the BNP Paribas Open. No one else in this tournament had taken a set from ...Read more

A forearm injury has forced Maria Sharapova to withdraw from this year's Miami Open tennis tournament.

A five-time Grand Slam champion, Sharapova announced the decision Friday.

"I am really sorry that I have to withdraw from one of my favorite tournaments with my left forearm injury," Sharapova said. "I am doing everything possible to return ...Read more

INDIAN WELLS -- Giving Daria Kasatkina a rigid game plan is like limiting a great artist to using a paint-by-numbers kit. Filling her head with elaborate plans makes no sense when she has the skills and creativity to produce masterpieces by relying on her skills and instincts.

The 20-year-old Russian, weary of focusing on tactics and "small ...Read more

INDIAN WELLS, Calif. -- This was all so new that Amanda Anisimova couldn't resist breaking her routine to peek at the wonderfully strange scene around her Sunday morning.

She saw thousands of spectators soaking up the gentle sun at Stadium 1 at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden while they waited for her to face Petra Kvitova, and she was impressed...Read more

INDIAN WELLS, Calif. -- There were no TV cameras on hand to capture the first time Venus and Serena Williams competed against each other, no reporters present to chronicle their every stroke and point for posterity. As Serena remembered it, she was 8 years old and Venus was 10 when they faced each other in a junior match. Serena also remembered ...Read more

Serena Williams is returning to the tennis tour six months after giving birth to daughter Alexis Olympia, and her husband, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, welcomed her back with four giant billboards along Interstate 10 heading into Palm Springs, Calif.

The billboards feature photos of Williams and the baby, with the caption "G.M.O.A.T." -- ...Read more