5:20 AM ET World No. 3 Dominic Thiem has rejected the notion that the top tennis players should chip in to help lower-ranked competitors who are struggling financially due to the pause in tournaments because of the coronavirus pandemic. World No. 1 Novak Djokovic last week urged players to contribute to a fund set up

1:08 AM ET Rafael Nadal is very pessimistic about the possibility of tennis returning to normal any time soon because of the coronavirus pandemic that shut down the sport last month. Professional tennis has been suspended until the end of July, at the earliest, and Nadal said Sunday that serious problems stand in the way

8:26 AM ET The extended lockdown of tennis will help Andy Murray‘s return from injury but it will be “a big ask” for him to add to his three Grand Slam titles, according to former British number one Greg Rusedski. Murray underwent hip re-surfacing surgery at the start of 2019 and resumed playing doubles in

6:25 PM ET Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Former Grand Slam doubles champion Bob Hewitt was released from prison on parole on Friday after serving nearly four years of a six-year sentence for the rape and sexual assault of girls he coached in South Africa in the 1980s and 1990s. The three victims

1:46 PM ET Associated Press Serena Williams‘ coach, Patrick Mouratoglou, and 2019 Australian Open semifinalist Stefanos Tsitsipas are starting an auction to raise money for tennis players ranked outside the top 100 and in need of financial help during the coronavirus pandemic. Mouratoglou and Tsitsipas tweeted about Beyond 100 Support on Thursday. They say the

8:07 AM ET Simon Cambers It was around 4:30 p.m. local time on March 8 when Petra Kvitova landed in Los Angeles. The two-time Wimbledon champion collected her bags and headed to a car, bound for Indian Wells and the first big North American hard-court event of 2020, the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells.

6:41 PM ET “Just wondering … am I the only one thinking that now is the time for men’s and women’s tennis to be united and come together as one?” It would be a seemingly innocuous statement had it been written by any tennis player or fan with time to contemplate the state of the

5:38 PM ET Associated Press The U.S. Tennis Association is warning folks: “No Bryan Brothers chest bumps.” That was among the suggestions from the USTA on Wednesday, when it offered return-to-play guidelines to help players and people running tennis facilities know when — and how — the sport should resume at the amateur level as

Apr 22, 2020 Tennis will be one of the last sports to return to action after the world has recovered from the coronavirus pandemic, former world No. 1 Andy Murray said on Wednesday. The tennis season has been suspended since March and the hiatus will continue at least until mid-July, playing havoc with the schedule

9:16 AM ET Associated Press Roger Federer raised the prospect of merging the governing bodies that oversee the men’s and women’s professional tennis tours on Wednesday. The 20-time Grand Slam champion began a string of tweets by saying the shutdown of tennis because of the coronavirus outbreak has given the sport an ideal opportunity to