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There is no doubting that 2016 has been a challenging year for former world No1 Ana Ivanovic. At the end of 2014, the popular Serb…

When Wimbledon last year moved the sacrosanct fortnight of The Championships to a week later in the schedule, it opened the door for a fuller,…

On the day that the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships welcomed the top four seeds to court for the first time, a rare rain-storm over…

The line-up of players for the valuable WTA Premier, the Dubai Duty Free Championships, worth almost $1.75m in prize money, may have been hit by…

Amid a fine day’s offering of women’s tennis as the third round got under way at Roland Garros, there was plenty to whet the appetite.…

It took the strong, towering presence of one of tennis’s most popular players, Maria Sharapova, to steady the Australian Open ship on the first day…

Among the three simultaneous WTA finals taking place on this busy tennis weekend—just a week before 2015’s first Grand Slam, the Australian Open—the one in…

In the world of elite tennis, six years can seem an eternity. And there have been times when it looked as though the tall, fresh-faced…

With Serena Williams, Maria Sharapova and Simona Halep the only players already sure of their places at the WTA Championships in Singapore, which begins on…

On paper, Heather Watson’s first match at this year’s US Open was a winnable one for the 22-year-old woman newly back inside the top 50.…

With her first Madrid title at the weekend, following hot on the heels of her third consecutive Stuttgart title, Maria Sharapova rose back to No7…

There is no denying that Indian Wells is special. It’s big, it’s beautiful, it’s star-studded, and it is the first stage of one of the…

As on so many occasions before, the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships have drawn one of the most impressive fields outside the Grand Slams and…

In this most demanding of gladiatorial sports, a one-on-one combat that has no time limit, no winning post, no team-mates to temper the physical and…

The home nation had watched its two rising male stars, teenagers Nick Kyrgios and Thanasi Kokkinakis, follow their senior colleagues out of the Australian Open…

The elite four in women’s tennis have already sealed their sought-after places at the tour’s climax, the WTA Championships in Istanbul, in just one month’s…

The heavy rain over New York did more than simply disrupt the schedule: It threw the women’s draw into disarray. The top half was done…

After a famous victory over world No4 Agnieszka Radwanska in the second round of the Madrid Premier this week, Laura Robson was unable to produce…

With two of the women’s semi-final places at the BNP Paribas Open already filled by storming performances from No1 Victoria Azaranka—extending her 2012 unbeaten record…

With so much talk of the “big four” in men’s tennis—can Novak Djokovic repeat his record-breaking 2011 antics, will Rafael Nadal overcome injury to win…

For the globe-trotting professional tennis player, it’s a long, hard road from the first tournament of the year, before January has even dawned, to the…