It is two years and a day since Rafael Nadal last played a grass-court tennis match, but the two-time former Wimbledon champion showed few signs of rust against John Millman. Nadal slapped 33 winners past the Australian on No.1 Court as he dropped just six games to wrap up victory in 105 minutes. Now for … Read more
Petra Kvitova capped her remarkable comeback from a career-threatening hand injury by winning the Aegon Classic. The Czech, playing in only her second tournament since she was stabbed by an intruder at her home in December, beat 21-year-old Australian Ashleigh Barty 4-6 6-3 6-3 in Birmingham. Kvitova, 27, returned to action at the French Open … Read more
Serena Williams may be missing from this year’s French Open, but big sister Venus is still going strong and marks her Roland Garros 20th anniversary on Sunday. Three weeks shy of her 37th birthday, the American star, who made her debut in the French capital in 1997, kicks off her latest campaign against China’s Wang … Read more
World number one Angelique Kerber came back from being a break down in both sets to beat American Shelby Rogers 6-4, 7-5 on Sunday and move into the fourth round at the Miami Open. With no sign of the rain that interrupted the past two days on Key Biscayne, Kerber was joined in the next … Read more
Petra Kvitova will be unable to play tennis for at least six months after undergoing surgery on “severe” hand injuries sustained in a knife attack, the player’s PR manager has told CNN. But it is still too early to assess when she will be ready for a competitive return. “The best case scenario is that … Read more
Germany’s Angelique Kerber continued to top the world rankings released by the WTA Monday while Britain’s Johanna Konta boosted her spot in the leading 10. Kerber ends the season on 9,080 points after winning her first two grand slams. American great Serena Williams trails on 7,050. Konta was the only member of the top 10 … Read more
Some of women’s tennis’ best performers in recent years are missing from the year-end championships at the WTA finals in Singapore. Serena Williams — the record 22-time grand slam champion — continues to nurse a shoulder injury, Maria Sharapova is serving a drug suspension, Victoria Azarenka is pregnant and Petra Kvitova just didn’t do enough … Read more