Elena Rybakina wins U.S. Open over defending champ Aryna Sabalenka

Aryna Sabalenka, the two-time defending U.S. Open champion, was dethroned Saturday, losing to Elena Rybakina in three sets.

• Sep 12

Venus Williams gets wild card for Australian Open at age 45

Venus Williams, 45, received a wild-card entry to the 2026 Australian Open at Melbourne Park 28 years after her first appearance.

• Jan 2

Coco Gauff beats Aryna Sabalenka to win first French Open women's title

Coco Gauff is the first American to win the French Open since Serena Williams in 2015.

• Jun 7, 2025

Rory McIlroy wins Masters playoff to complete career Grand Slam

Rory McIlroy won a sudden-death playoff to finally win the Masters and take his place in golf history as the sixth player to claim the career Grand Slam.

• Apr 13, 2025

Blind Elk Grove woman competes in international tennis competition in Italy

An Elk Grove woman is competing in an international tennis competition in Italy. We caught up with her before she left for what she calls the biggest competition of her life.

• Sep 27, 2024

Tennis legend Chris Evert says cancer has returned

The recurrence comes about two years after she was first diagnosed with ovarian cancer.

• Dec 8, 2023

Tennis phenom Coco Gauff wins U.S. Open at age 19

Gauff is the first American teenager to win the U.S. Open since Serena Williams in 1999.

• Sep 9, 2023

Djokovic speaks out at French Open as dozens injured in Kosovo clashes

The tennis champ courted controversy by appearing to back ethnic Serbs in Kosovo who reject the nation's independence as NATO peacekeepers faced "unprovoked attacks."

• May 30, 2023

Brazilian dictionary adds Pelé as adjective, synonym for "best"

The dictionary entry for "Pelé" reads: "The one that is extraordinary, or who because of his quality, value or superiority cannot be matched to anything or anyone, just like Pelé"

• Apr 26, 2023

Tennis legend Martina Navratilova gets double cancer diagnosis

The 66-year-old revealed that she will start treatment this month and said she's prepared to "fight with all [I've] got."

• Jan 2, 2023

Spain's Carlos Alcaraz wins men's singles U.S. Open championship

Alcaraz, 19, is the first male teenager to win a Grand Slam since Rafael Nadal won the French Open in 2005.

• Sep 11, 2022

Serena and Venus Williams lose first-round doubles match at U.S. Open

It was the first time a U.S. Open first-round doubles match has ever been held in Arthur Ashe Stadium, drawing a sellout crowd of over 23,000.

• Sep 1, 2022

Serena Williams advances to third round of U.S. Open

Williams has hinted this will be the last tournament of her illustrious career.

• Aug 31, 2022

Serena Williams wins first-round match at U.S. Open

Serena Williams has won her match in the first round of the U.S. Open.

• Aug 29, 2022

Novak Djokovic, unvaccinated against COVID-19, out of U.S. Open

Novak Djokovic will not play in the U.S. Open as expected because he is not vaccinated against COVID-19 and thus is not allowed to travel to the United States.

• Aug 25, 2022