Tennis Players News

Nikolay Davydenko lost his fourth straight match Tuesday, falling 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 to "lucky loser" Aljaz Bedene of Slovenia in the first round of the Power Horse Cup.

A federal court in San Francisco has struck down Arizona's ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy unless there's a medical emergency.

Sixth-seeded Fabio Fognini of Italy overcame a sloppy first set to beat Marco Cecchinato 1-6, 6-1, 6-2 in the first round of the Nice Open on Tuesday.

Eugenie Bouchard from Canada, seen in a clay court tournament earlier this year, is gearing up for the French Open.

Johannesburg Kevin Anderson climbed to a career-best rating in the latest ATP men's world tennis rankings released on Monday.

Heavy rain prevented any play at the Strasbourg International, forcing all seven first-round matches to be postponed to Tuesday.

Spain's Rafael Nadal poses for a photo in front of the statues of Pietrangeli court after his straight-sets victory against Roger Federer.

1 Lleyton Hewitt of Australia and fifth-seeded Andreas Seppi of Italy lost Monday in the first round of the Nice Open.

Sixth-seeded Jarkko Nieminen of Finland beat Lukas Lacko of Slovakia 6-3, 6-1 Monday to reach the second round of the Power Horse Cup, a clay-court tuneup for the French Open.

Only the intrepid and the desperate play the week between a Masters 1000 tournament and a major, where the 250 events in Nice and Dusseldorf fall.

ITALY's Mauro Santambrogio took the stage victory but overall leader Vincenzo Nibali was the big winner, as poor weather dominated Stage 14 of the Giro d'Italia. ANDY MURRAY intends to wait until the middle of the week before making a final decision whether to play in the French Open.

LEIGH HALFPENNY fears his brilliant form for Wales has made him the No.1 target for the Wallaby hitmen this summer.

Venus and Serena Williams have never been held to the same standards as other athletes in their sport.

In the 30th meeting between the tennis greats, Nadal controlled the final from the start and won 6-1, 6-3 Sunday for his seventh Italian Open title.

The clay-court tournament replaced the World Team Cup to become the warm-up event for next week's French Open.

Ricardas Berankis was a first-round winner Sunday at the $530,000 Nice Open, a final clay-court French Open tune-up. Berankis topped Uzbekistan's Denis Istomin, the No.

Anyone hoping to put an end to Rafael Nadal 's French Open dominance has to be disappointed with his Rome Masters performance.

Russian soldiers sleep at a military vehicle before a rehearsal for the military parade at Dvortsovaya Square in St.Petersburg, Participants of the rally of lonely women at a Hyde Park in the Gorky Central Park of Culture and Leisure in Moscow.

World number one Serena Williams said she hoped to improve her game for the French Open after easing into the Rome Open final with a 6-3, 6-0 win over Simona Halep which ended the qualifier's dream week in the Italian capital.

PINS, France, May 19 AAP - Australian tennis coach Josh Eagle is confident the lure of grand slam tennis will ensure Bernard Tomic casts aside recent drama and fronts up at the French Open.