6:42 PM ET Associated Press ROME — Former top-10 player Fabio Fognini said on social media that he had arthroscopic surgery on both ankles Saturday. The 2011 French Open quarterfinalist, who reached a career-high No. 9 in the ATP rankings last year, posted two messages on Twitter. The first announced he would have the operations,

12:18 PM ET The Ultimate Tennis Showdown will attempt to encourage players to come out of their shells and show their personalities when it begins play next month. The UTS has received approval from health officials in France to start play June 13-14 and will hold events over five consecutive weekends at the Mouratoglou Academy

10:54 AM ET Associated Press Dominic Thiem, Alexander Zverev and Nick Kyrgios will play exhibition tennis matches in Berlin in July amid the coronavirus pandemic. One exhibition event will run from July 13-15 on grass and another on a hard court in a hangar in the city’s closed Tempelhof airport from July 17-19. Each tournament

11:11 AM ET Roger Federer has taken over as the highest-paid athlete in Forbes annual earnings report, topping Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi who have held the No. 1 spot in three of the last four years. Federer earned $106 million pre-tax, edging out Ronaldo by about $1 million to take over No. 1. According

6:51 AM ET Andy Murray will make his return to tennis at a behind-closed-doors tournament organised by his brother Jamie from June 23-28 in London, the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) said on Friday. Murray, 33, has not competed since the Davis Cup Finals in November due to complications with his hip. He was targeting a

May 22, 2020 They are stars but move in different orbits; their success means they share a lot of traits but don’t often get to chat about them, especially for the benefit of sports fans. In the second of our Conversations series, we bring together Sania Mirza and PV Sindhu, two of India’s all-time sporting

10:20 PM ET ESPN News Services Back in Serbia after a two-month stay in Spain amid the coronavirus pandemic, Novak Djokovic says he’s in good shape and ready to play. Before the season resumes in earnest, Djokovic will play in a round-robin tournament that he is organizing, the Adria Tour, which is slated to begin

12:35 PM ET Charleston, where the annual WTA tournament scheduled for early April became just the third tennis event forced to cancel because of the coronavirus pandemic, will have a pro tennis event in 2020 after all. But it will look nothing like the event that has been a staple of the tour since the

9:36 AM ET Associated Press The French tennis federation will set aside €9 million ($9.8 million) for its players who financially struggle as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. The money will come from a larger €35 million ($38.1 million) support plan for French tennis as a whole. It will go to the players ranked

9:03 AM ET New Zealand will stage a team-based tennis tournament for local-based men’s players from June 3, organisers said on Monday. The event will mark the southern hemisphere’s first professional competition since the coronavirus pandemic brought global sport to a halt. All 112 matches of the “NZ Premier League” will be played in Auckland