Simona Halep

In the bottom half of the Roland Garros women’s draw, just one of the original 16 seeds still stood standing at the conclusion of the…

Gabriela Sabatini, the 1990 US Open champion and five times a French Open semi-finalist, was presented with the ITF’s highest accolade, the Philippe Chatrier Award,…

Much is made of the dominance of a trio of men at the Majors, and nowhere more so than at Roland Garros. Eleven times Rafael…

The contrasts between the two women who contested the first semi-final in this year’s Mutua Madrid Open were extensive. At this highly prestigious women’s tournament,…

The first Premier 5 of the season has been showing its strong credentials this week as the top women in tennis gear up for the…

In a fascinating and ever-changing year of tennis, 2018 featured both familiar names and new faces. There were new achievements by the old guard, and…

The tennis media, during this all-too-short off-season, have not been idle. Because before you can say Merry Christmas, the men and women who compete in…

The men’s tour has seen a constancy at the top of the sport for close to 16 years. Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal created an…

• Barbora Krejcikova/Katerina Siniakova win Doubles Team of the Year • Kiki Bertens, Aryna Sabalenka and Elina Svitolina also honoured The Women’s Tennis Association has revealed…

When the last seven Majors, dating back to the Australian Open 2017, have been won by seven different women, and when the No1 ranking has…

Apart from Serena Williams, who missed the US Open last year as she prepared to give birth to her first child, the top 32 men…

Simona Halep worked long and hard to reach No1 in the world, thwarted time and again during 2017. But if anyone had grown into the…

World No1 Simona Halep’s superb efforts to claim the Rogers Cup title earned her not just her second title in Montreal but the first place…

There is no doubt that Simona Halep had done it the hard way to reach her fourth Major final, her third at Roland Garros. But…

Asked this week about the significance of keeping the No1 ranking, Simona Halep was adamant: “Zero… now my goals are different.” She meant the winning…

Four No1 players, three of them Major champions, two of them former French Open champions: Not a bad line-up for the two quarter-final matches scheduled…

Amid the brouhaha over the highly-anticipated renewal of the Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova rivalry, it would have been easy to let another big story…

Simona Halep may be No1 in both the main WTA rankings and the Race to Singapore, but her long-standing fight to reach and then stay…

The 2015 champion and world No2 Simona Halep has joined an outstanding Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships field, which gets under way in less than…

The day began with two Americans taking on two Romanians. On Rod Laver arena, it was world No1 Simona Halep, eager to keep her hands…

It is a battle that has raged since Serena Williams won the Australian Open 12 months ago, and promptly withdrew from the women’s tour on…