The Latest Breaking News from Tennis

An Oscar-tipped cult biopic, sold-out matches and fresh faces at clubs suggest table tennis may finally be breaking free of its basement reputation in the US

"They will never get it."

Top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka and 19-year-old Victoria Mboko have advanced to a meeting in the fourth round of the Australian Open

Yulia Putintseva was not happy with the behaviour of fans during her third round match against Zeynep Sonmez

Djokovic is playing in his record-tying 81st major at the Australian Open.

Thirty years ago, living in Cambridge, England, I wandered into Heffers Bookshop and picked up a monstrous new novel on the display table. It had a title out of Hamlet, a Simpsons-sky dustjacket, hundreds of endnotes, and ran to almost 1,100 pages. Infinite Jest occupied much of that cold February…

On the arm of Swiss tennis player Stan Wawrinka is tattooed a quote by Samuel Beckett: “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”

The players’ lobby group embroiled in a lawsuit with tennis authorities is seeking $1bn in investment to fund a radical restructure based around a new Pinnacle Tour

Thanasi Kokkinakis faces another extended stint on the sidelines amid serious concerns over a shoulder injury that flared up again during the Australian Open.

Not everyone can sail to the pinnacle of tennis like Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner, and an increasing number of gritty, battle-hardened players from an improving US college system are showing there can be a different way to the top

Italian qualifier Francesco Maestrelli has joined the long list of tennis players who have lost to peerless Serb Novak Djokovic at the majors.