In most situations, hitting crosscourt from the baseline is the high percentage shot. The net is 6 inches lower in the center than it is at the sidelines.

Veteran coach Ricardo Sanchez says that Serena Williams and Venus Williams have essentially lost their interest in tennis and are more concerned with outside pursuits.

MADRID (AP)—Rafael Nadal won his first match on the blue clay at the Madrid Open on Wednesday, defeating Nikolay Davydenko 6-2, 6-2 in the second round.

Madrid tournament owner Ion Tiriac tells DPA that despite the controversy over his selection of blue clay for the event, he is already working on another innovation: Phosphorescent green or orange bal

Rafael Nadal tells reporters in Madrid that he asked the ATP to allow him to play with grass-court shoes on the blue clay, but he wasn’t allowed to because rules prevent it.

British tennis chief Roger Draper says critics have taken aim at the Lawn Tennis Association because it's an easy target, The Independent reports.

Spanish captain Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario decides not to name her country's highest-ranked player to the Fed Cup team that will face Slovakia because she thinks that Anabel Medina Garrigues might disrup

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP)—Serena Williams is on the U.S. Fed Cup roster for matches against Ukraine on April 21-22, but her sister Venus is not.

Tennis player Daniel Koellerer lost his appeal against a life ban for match-fixing at world sport’s highest court on Friday.

Rafael Nadal tells L’Equipe that he was upset by the French TV parody that depicted him urinating into the gas tank of his car, which then took off at an incredible speed, essentially alleging that