Angelique Kerber's Wimbledon preparation gained momentum as she thumped Simona Halep 6-4, 6-3 in a battle of former world No. 1s to reach the semifinals at Eastbourne on Thursday.
The Wimbledon champion converted five out of seven break points to (...)
How do you take a player with no ranking and who had just spent a year hitting cricket rather than tennis balls and turn her into a Grand Slam champion and world number one in three years, Ashleigh Barty's coach Craig Tyzzer was asked on Monday.
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New world No. 1 Ashleigh Barty has suffered a pre-Wimbledon injury scare, withdrawn from this week's Eastbourne grasscourt tournament with a recurrence of a right arm injury.
The 23-year-old became the first Australian woman to reach the top of the (...)
Former world No. 1 and Romanian stalwart Simona Halep says she loves the current format of the Fed Cup and would boycott the competition if the 'home and away' format changes.
The International Tennis Federation (ITF) will make a "major (...)
Dominika Cibulkova reached the Eastbourne International final after dispatching Puerto Rican qualifier Monica Puig 6-2, 6-1 Friday.
The Slovak always held the upper hand, holding two break points for a 2-0 lead before breaking for 4-2, and again for (...)
Monica Puig became the first qualifier to reach the Eastbourne International semifinals in three years though it took her nearly three hours to get there Thursday.
Puig, a Puerto Rican, needed 2 hours, 43 minutes to overcome Kristina Mladenovic of (...)
Top-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland eased into the quarterfinals of the Eastbourne International with a 6-3, 6-3 win over Eugenie Bouchard of Canada Wednesday.
But former champion Caroline Wozniacki was upset by Puerto Rican qualifier Monica (...)
seeded Elena Dementieva was defeated 6-0, 3-6, 7-6 (4) by Virginie Razzano at the Eastbourne International Tennis Tournament on Wednesday, joining the long list of ousted seeds.
The Russian claimed just 29 percent of the points in the first set, (...)