9:22 AM ET ESPN News Services Alize Cornet upset Bianca Andreescu for the second time in two weeks by beating the fifth-seeded Canadian 6-2, 6-1 in the first round at Wimbledon on Wednesday. Cornet, who also beat Andreescu in Berlin two weeks ago, broke the 2019 US Open champion five times and sealed the victory

3:11 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com Serena Williams retired from her first-round match at Wimbledon on Tuesday against Aliaksandra Sasnovich with a left leg injury. Holding a 3-1 lead in the first set, Williams slipped and needed to take an injury timeout at the game’s conclusion to receive treatment. She returned to the court, but her

Jun 23, 2021 Wimbledon returns this year on Monday, June 28, on ESPN after the oldest tennis tournament in the world was canceled last year amid the COVID-19 pandemic. We will have information about the results, key players and big storylines over the course of the Grand Slam, from the time the draw is released

9:41 AM ET ESPN News Services Venus Williams won a match at Wimbledon for the 90th time. She also beat the rain. The 41-year-old Williams advanced to the second round by defeating Mihaela Buzarnescu 7-5, 4-6, 6-3. The match ended moments before a light shower forced an interruption in play on some courts at the

1:34 PM ET Simon Cambers American Sloane Stephens caused the first big shock on the women’s side at Wimbledon on Monday when she took out two-time champion Petra Kvitova 6-3, 6-4 on Centre Court. The former US Open champion, a quarterfinalist at Wimbledon in 2013, returned aggressively and never allowed 10th-seed Kvitova, the winner in

11:31 AM ET Associated Press WIMBLEDON, England — Novak Djokovic overcame a wobbly start to win his opening match at Wimbledon. The two-time defending champion was 0-for-7 converting break points in the first set, which he lost to 19-year-old British wild card Jack Draper. Djokovic slipped several times on the grass but hit 25 aces

5:46 AM ET With the return of tennis at Wimbledon on Monday, the only thing perfectly clear about the sport’s reentry from the pandemic will be the crisp whites that players don at the All England Club over the next two weeks. The sport is in the middle of its own edgy transition. Like restaurants,

4:21 PM ET Simon Cambers Britain’s Johanna Konta was withdrawn from Wimbledon on Sunday after she was deemed to be a close contact of a team member who tested positive for COVID-19. Konta, the world No 31, a Wimbledon semifinalist in 2017 and Britain’s highest-ranked woman, was removed from the draw and replaced by China’s

11:54 AM ET Kathleen McNamee Stefanos Tsitsipas has said he and the new generation of tennis players are eager to put a stop to Novak Djokovic‘s dream of a calendar “Golden Slam.” The world No. 4 took two sets off Djokovic in the French Open final before the Serbian went on to win the next

8:12 AM ET Simon Cambers Serena Williams says she will not be playing at this summer’s Olympics. The American, who has won four gold medals in tennis, the most recent in women’s singles in 2012, said she decided not to go to Tokyo for a variety of reasons. “I’m actually not on the Olympic list,