Tennis

Wimbledon organisers defended their Centre Court roof policy on Tuesday after Novak Djokovic’s opening match suffered an 80-minute delay after a rain shower made the grass too slippery. Djokovic ...

Order of play on the main show courts on the first day of the Wimbledon championships on Monday (prefix number denotes seeding): CENTRE COURT (1230 GMT) Shelby Rogers (U.S.) v 3...

Defending men’s champion Novak Djokovic and women’s top seed Iga Swiatek started their Wimbledon campaigns in ominous fashion on Monday as rain temporarily halted play on the outside ...

Andrey Rublev said he was happy to be welcomed back to Wimbledon after becoming the first returning Russian through to the second round by beating Australian Max Purcell on Monday. ...

World number one Iga Swiatek cruised into the Wimbledon second round with a 6-1 6-3 mauling of China’s Zhu Lin on Monday in a fine start to her quest ...

American fourth seed Jessica Pegula moved into the second round of Wimbledon with a hard-fought 6-2 6-7(8) 6-3 win over compatriot Lauren Davis on Monday. Davis struggled to find her ...

Wimbledon officials have strengthened security and will use undercover “behavioural detection officers” in an attempt to prevent environmental protests at the Championships which start on Monday. Perfectly-manicured green lawns with ...

The All England Club gates swung open for the start of the Wimbledon championships on Monday with some notable absentees but one very familiar face, Novak Djokovic, fixing his eyes ...

Order of play on the main show courts on the first day of the Wimbledon championships on Monday (prefix number denotes seeding): CENTRE COURT (1230 GMT) Pedro Cachin (Argentina) v 2-Novak ...

Twenty-six years after Venus Williams made her Wimbledon debut, the five-times champion will be back on Centre Court once again on Monday and the 43-year-old American said she could even ...

Last year’s Wimbledon runner-up Nick Kyrgios will not place any unfair expectations on himself, the Australian said on Sunday as he gears up for the Grand Slam with little ...

A rejuvenated Carlos Alcaraz enters Wimbledon as the top seed after reclaiming the world number one ranking but the brightest star of the next generation knows few will look beyond ...

Andy Murray knows his way around the All England Club better than any player in Friday’s Wimbledon draw and while his career highlights may be behind him there will ...

Tipped by no less than Carlos Alcaraz as the man with the best chance of denying Novak Djokovic the Wimbledon title, Nick Kyrgios is scrambling even to make it onto ...

Australian Open chief Craig Tiley believes any Saudi investment in tennis is unlikely to have the same impact as the country’s disruptive entry into golf because talks are focused ...

World number one Carlos Alcaraz has “no doubts” he will compete in Saudi Arabia at some point and said the country has the power to hold plenty of tournaments after ...

Stefanos Tsitsipas has said comments he made about Nick Kyrgios at last year’s Wimbledon have been “misinterpreted”, after his remarks were featured on Netflix documentary “Break Point” and perceived ...

Andy Murray said he will not “overreact” to his opening round exit at the Queen’s Club Championships after Tuesday’s 6-3 6-1 defeat by Alex de Minaur ended the ...

Former U.S. Open champion Emma Raducanu said she sometimes wishes she had not won the Grand Slam due to the pressure that came with the success and instant fame. ...

Nick Kyrgios will reveal in upcoming episodes of a Netflix documentary that he spent time in a psychiatric hospital after losing at Wimbledon in 2019, The Australian newspaper reported on Wednesday. ...

Novak Djokovic reclaimed the world number one ranking from Carlos Alcaraz after winning his men’s record 23rd Grand Slam title at the French Open, while Rafa Nadal dropped out ...

If the debate about the best-ever man to wield a tennis racket came down to statistics alone, Novak Djokovic’s status as the GOAT (Greatest Of All Time) would already ...

Novak Djokovic claimed a record-breaking 23rd men’s singles Grand Slam title when he beat Norway’s Casper Ruud 7-6(1) 6-3 7-5 in the French Open final on Sunday. The ...

Pressure will be immense on Sunday when Novak Djokovic faces Casper Ruud in the French Open final with a record-breaking 23rd men’s Grand Slam title and his position in ...