Tennis

Top Ukrainian junior Yelyzaveta Kotliar said she was “deeply sorry” after shaking the hand of a Russian opponent at the Australian Open.

The next time someone tries to throw Novak Djokovic’s concentration, they should try bringing up something other than his vax status because that doesn’t work.

A deadly snake that slithered onto the court stopped play during Dominic Thiem’s victory against James McCabe at the Brisbane International qualifying event in Australia on Saturday.

Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic, who famously declined to take the coronavirus vaccine, won his fourth U.S. Open and 24th Grand Slam on Sunday, where he followed up his win explaining to ESPN that his decision not to take the vaccination “was never anti-vax” and “was always pro-freedom.”

NEW YORK (AP) — Coco Gauff is still a teenager, after all, and so it should surprise no one that she was on her phone in the locker room, scrolling through social media, right up until 10 minutes before heading out on the court for the U.S. Open final.

U.S. Open officials have agreed to initiate a partial closing of the domed roofs at its two stadiums but are standing by their decision not to close them entirely despite the 90-degree plus temperatures, high humidity, and the complaints by players and fans alike.

New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers attended the U.S. Open on Sunday and showed his support for tennis great Novak Djokovic while also zinging those who enforced the COVID mandates that kept him out of previous U.S. Open tournaments.

A man claiming to be a transgender female tennis player has pulled out of the Wyoming Governor’s Cup citing “safety concerns.”

The president of a Wyoming women’s tennis association resigned this week when the group allowed a man to play as a woman.

Tennis great Novak Djokovic received the largest individual fine of 2023 for smashing his racket at Wimbledon on Saturday.

The Saudi Royal Family is preparing to launch a multibillion-dollar agency to invest in U.S. sports franchises, according to reports.

Second-round action at Wimbledon was halted on Wednesday after environmental activists from the group “Just Stop Oil” stormed the court and spilled orange confetti on the grass.

Tennis legend Martina Navratilova blasted bicycle racer Austin Killips, the man who won last week’s women’s cycling race in North Carolina.

The shock announcement on Tuesday that golf’s elite PGA Tour would merge with its Saudi rival LIV Golf prompted a wave of outrage and concern that Saudi Arabia, one of the world’s most prolific human rights abusers, was succeeding in a quest to use sports to polish its public image.

French Open officials disqualified a women’s doubles team on Sunday after one of the women lobbed a ball that accidentally pelted a ball girl, causing her to burst into tears.

Sloane Stephens, the 2017 US Open champion, says that U.S. athletes face more “racism” then they ever have.

Ukrainian tennis player Marta Kostyuk was met with loud boos at a match in France for refusing to shake the hand of opponent from Belarus.

Tennis player Nick Kyrgios will miss the 2023 French Open, also known as the Roland-Garros tournament, due to a foot injury he received in May when a man reportedly held his mother at gunpoint in order to steal the athlete’s Tesla, Kyrgios’s agent Daniel Horsfall announced Thursday.

Tennis icon Novak Djokovic will finally be allowed to return to the U.S. Open this year after being banned over the vaccine mandate. 

Tennis great Martina Navratilova took a swipe at transgender activist Lia Thomas for claiming that women are using feminism for “transphobia”

The Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) announced on Thursday it would end its boycott of business in China, initially taken to protest the disappearance of Wimbledon champion Peng Shuai, despite the fact that the player has not been seen in public in over a year.

Novak Djokovic, the world’s #1 tennis player, has been refused entry into the United States for a second time because he is not vaccinated against the coronavirus.

Tennis champion Novak Djokovic confirmed on Wednesday that he had applied for an exemption to far-left President Joe Biden’s ban on allowing foreigners into America who have not ingested coronavirus vaccine products, an attempt to participate in multiple high-profile tennis tournaments from which he has been banned under Biden.

Serena Williams spoke publicly about Will Smith slapping Chris Rock for the first time on Thursday, but what she said is quite confusing.

The Ukrainian ambassador to Australia lodged a stern complaint on Friday against Srdjan Djokovic, father of Serbian tennis champion Novak Djokovic, stating it would be “a very good idea” for the Australian Open to ban him from attending the tournament.

Srdjan Djokovic, father of Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic, triggered a global uproar on Wednesday night for meeting with fans of his son’s at the ongoing Australian Open, some of whom were waving Russian flags and wearing the “Z” insignia associated with support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Tennis pro Camila Giorgi’s Australian Open press conference turned testy when reporters began asking her about her vax status.

Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic received raucous applause on Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena court Friday night, his first time back to the top Australian tennis stage since the government imprisoned him in a migrant detention facility and deported him for not ingesting a Chinese coronavirus vaccine last year.

Wimbledon tennis great Martina Navratilova announced that she is suffering from throat and breast cancer, but is vowing to fight it.

The world’s most prestigious sporting institutions dove headfirst into a return to normal following two years of pandemic rules in 2022 – with the help of some of the planet’s most egregious human rights abusers.

Former Wimbledon champion Boris Becker was released from a UK prison early Thursday morning and now faces immediate deportation after serving eight months of his sentence for hiding assets and loans to avoid paying debts.

Multiple media outlets reported on Tuesday, citing Australian government officials, that tennis champion Novak Djokovic’s visa ban would be revoked in time for him to play the Australian Open in January.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) – Novak Djokovic is set to be granted a visa to play in next year’s Australian Open despite his high-profile deportation in January.

Video of a tennis coach in Serbia is going viral and shocking the tennis world as he is seen slapping and kicking a young female student.

Zhang Gaoli, the former head of the Beijing Winter Olympics steering group who missing tennis star Peng Shuai accused of raping her, received a front-row seat and a coveted Party “elder” position at this week’s Chinese Communist Party Congress, his first public appearance since Peng’s public accusations last year.

A protester ran onto the court at the Laver Cup in London on Friday and lit his arm on fire hours before tennis legend Roger Federer was due to compete in his final match.