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Roger Federer withdrew from the French Open Sunday a day after a tough four-set victory over Dominik Koepfer in the third round.

PARIS — A tennis player suspected of match-fixing last year has been arrested in Paris during the French Open, the Paris prosecutor’s office said Friday. According to French newspaper Le...

Many tennis pros have had interesting reactions to Naomi Osaka’s decision to pull out of the French Open, but Venus Williams’ might take the cake. The 40-year-old was at a press...

Pam Shriver wrote a letter to top USTA officials denouncing their role in a statement that led to Naomi Osaka’s sad withdrawal from the French Open.

Naomi Osaka has withdrawn from the French Open, days after her refusal to speak to media after matches ignited blowback from organizers.

Naomi Osaka was fined $15,000 on Sunday for following through on her media boycott — and that could be just the beginning.

Iga Swiatek, who still divided her time between tennis and high school a few months ago, became, at only 19 years old, the first Polish woman, men and women alike, to win a Grand Slam trophy at Roland Garros on Saturday.

It was the weekend of comebacks at the U.S. Open — a fitting tone for a city that has made one helluva COVID comeback. The Twilight Zone version of the fan-less Open concluded Sunday in a fifth-set tiebreaker in four hours. Austrian Dominic Thiem rallied from two sets down to post a five-set 2-6, 4-6, …

Late in a disastrous first set, Naomi Osaka scattered a forehand long and stared up into the Flushing blue sky. Two points later, Osaka was broken for a third time by Victoria Azarenka and lost the first set 6-1 in 26 minutes without serving an ace. Her serve had abandoned her. Someone apparently was looking …

One of the toughest decisions the USTA faced in arranging the US Open in a pandemic was banning Billie Jean King from the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. King, the pioneering tennis legend who had the Flushing Meadows facility named after her in 2006, was not given a credential for the Open. King is …