1:28 AM ET PERTH, Australia — World No. 1 Ashleigh Barty will step on court on Saturday with the chance to cap off her remarkable year by leading Australia to their first Fed Cup title since Evonne Goolagong Cawley in 1974. Beginning her year in Perth at the Hopman Cup, Barty’s season will come full

4:34 PM ET Australian No. 1 Alex De Minaur secured a spot in the NextGen semifinals on Thursday as he defeated Norwegian Casper Ruud with a comfortable 4-1, 4-0, 4-2. De Minaur produced a solid performance to clinch his seventh win in Milan, and distanced Andrey Rublev‘s previous record of six. “I knew from playing

5:15 AM ET World No. 2 Karolina Pliskova has announced she will no longer be working with coach Conchita Martinez. Martinez, herself a former World No. 2 and Wimbledon champion, joined Pliskova’s coaching staff in 2018. The Czech Republic’s Pliskova, who lost her semifinal at the WTA Finals to World No. 1 and eventual winner

6:01 PM ET Italy’s Jannik Sinner has become the first player to qualify for the semifinals at the ATP NextGen Finals in Milan after securing a comfortable 4-0, 4-2, 4-1 victory over Mikael Ymer. Sinner, who is the youngest player in the top 100 of the ATP’s rankings at 18-years-old, took just 56 minutes to

12:15 PM ET ESPN staff Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print On February this year, India were drawn to play against Pakistan in an away tie in the Davis Cup. Unsurprisingly, owing to the strained relations between the two countries, the news quickly turned political, with India reluctant to travel, and the ITF ultimately

1:14 PM ET A day after the India-Pakistan Davis Cup tie this month was finally shifted to a neutral venue, fresh troubles have now descended on the All India Tennis Association (AITA). In a Twitter post on Tuesday, senior Indian doubles player Rohan Bopanna hit out at the federation for its decision to appoint a

8:45 AM ET German tennis great Boris Becker has had his bankruptcy restrictions extended to 2031, after an investigation found assets and undisclosed transactions valued at more than £4.5 million ($5.80 million). Becker, who won six Grand Slam singles titles in his career including three at Wimbledon, was made bankrupt on June 21, 2017 in

11:28 AM ET India’s forthcoming Davis Cup tie against Pakistan has been shifted out of Islamabad and will now be played at a neutral venue. Agreeing to the All India Tennis Association (AITA) request, the International Tennis Federation (ITF) on Monday communicated its final decision regarding the Asia/Oceania Zone Group 1 tie scheduled for November

12:00 PM ET The WTA Finals, completed Sunday with Ashleigh Barty locking down the coveted year-end No. 1 ranking, was a rich event in more ways than the record prize money. The event in Shenzhen, China, also produced a number of storylines sure to impact the coming year. Let’s look at five of them: Ashleigh

Ashleigh Barty is humbled by the constant comparisons to Evonne Goolagong Cawley and says she’d be satisfied to carve out a career half as successful as her mentor and idol. Barty is joining Goolagong Cawley in the tennis record books with seemingly every big win she has and did so again in winning the prestigious