For Emma Raducanu, a year that began in trying circumstances is ending in a much happier place. The 23-year-old will enter next season with the support of Rafael Nadal's former coach Francis Roig and a clear plan, both on and off the court. 📝 @cdeccleshare.bsky.social 🔗 bit.ly/48MRCgU

A year ago, Andy Murray was coaching Novak Djokovic. Now, he is playing Monopoly with his six-year-old at 6am. Speaking exclusively to The Tennis Podcast, he discusses that coaching partnership, things he would have done differently in his career and the big three. theathletic.com/6844610/?sou...

Six-time Grand Slam doubles champion Joe Salisbury said he will take a break from tennis due to anxiety which left him with physical symptoms and a “feeling of dread”.

At the end of a grueling tennis season, Carlos Alcaraz will sit at the top of the ATP Tour rankings. Alcaraz secured the second year-end No. 1 ranking of his career Thursday night, with a 6-4, 6-1 win over Italy’s Lorenzo Musetti at the ATP Tour Finals in Turin. 🔗 theathletic.com/6804463/?sou...

The 2025 WTA Tour Finals in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia enters its final round-robin matches with two very different qualification scenarios in play for the semifinals. In one group, there is a winner-takes-all shootout; in the other, permutations abound ⬇️

The court and rules will be adjusted for the best-of-three Battle of the Sexes match, with a 10-point tiebreak played at 1-1. The court on Sabalenka’s side of the net will be shrunk by 9 percent. Both players will receive just one serve, to reduce Kyrgios’ advantage when starting the point.

Women’s world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka will play men’s world No. 652 Nick Kyrgios in a tennis match labeled as the fourth Battle of the Sexes in the sport’s history. Organized by Evolve, the agency which represents both players, the match will take place December 28 at the Coca-Cola Arena in Dubai.

Rohan Bopanna has retired from tennis at 45, announcing the end of a 20-year career that hit its greatest heights as it neared its end. In winning the 2024 Australian Open men’s doubles title, he became the oldest man to win a Grand Slam title in history. 🔗 theathletic.com/6768510/?sou...

America’s top women’s tennis players have spent 2025 doing what they have done for a while: delivering when the lights shine brightest. They won the first two Grand Slams, with Madison Keys taking the Australian Open and Coco Gauff the French, and there was an American woman in all four finals.

Cameron Norrie sent an erratic Carlos Alcaraz out of the Paris Masters in the second round, beating the world No. 1 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 in Alcaraz’s opening match at the event. 🔗 theathletic.com/6758031/?sou...

Three weeks ago, Valentin Vacherot was world No. 204. Now he is the world No. 39 and the reigning ATP Shanghai Masters 1000 champion. His is the tennis Cinderella story of the decade in the men’s game. ✍️ @mattfutterman.bsky.social 🔗 theathletic.com/6738185/?sou...

Saudi Arabia will host an ATP Masters 1000 tournament as early as 2028. It's the latest move in nearly three years of power battles, negotiation and inertia that have come to dominate the top of tennis. Story from @mattfutterman.bsky.social and @cdeccleshare.bsky.social ⤵️

Marta Kostyuk has said that she “feels smaller” next to world No. 1 and world No. 2 Aryna Sabalenka and Iga Swiatek, and said that some players “have a higher level of testosterone, some have lower,” when asked if she is intimidated by playing them. 🔗 theathletic.com/6736128/?sou...

Jannik Sinner will not play for Italy in this year’s Davis Cup Finals, whilst Carlos Alcaraz will compete for Spain at the event, which takes place in Bologna in November.

Frances Tiafoe has ended his tennis season early after splitting with two key members of his team. Tiafoe, the world No. 29, said that 2025 “wasn’t the season I hoped for” and said that it was “time for a change”.

Emma Raducanu has ended her tennis season, pulling out of WTA tournaments in Tokyo and Hong Kong over the next couple of weeks because of illness. Story from @cdeccleshare.bsky.social ⤵️

A few years ago, Sebastian Korda was tipped to lead American men's tennis. His talent has never been in question. But injuries have left him facing an uphill battle to fulfil his potential. “You just kind of have to restart. You’ve got to climb that mountain again." ✍️ @mattfutterman.bsky.social

Jessica Pegula fell to a junk-ball masterclass from a tactically inspired Coco Gauff in the Wuhan Open final. Gauff triumphed 6-4, 7-5 for her second title of 2025 — it's also her first WTA 1000 title of the year.

Valentin Vacherot beat his cousin Arthur Rinderknech 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 to win the Shanghai Masters. Vacherot started the tournament as world No. 204 and ends it as world No. 40. His victory earned him just under $1,125,000 (£842,800), almost double his career prize money.

Jack Draper, the British world No. 8, has appointed Andy Murray’s former coach Jamie Delgado as his lead coach. Delgado split with Grigor Dimitrov in September, having worked with the Bulgarian for three years, during which time Dimitrov returned to the world’s top 10. ✍️ @cdeccleshare.bsky.social

From @theathletic.com: Roger Federer's comments on whether certain tennis courts deliberately favor Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner provoked heated discussion.

French legend Gaël Monfils will retire from tennis at the end of the 2026 season, he announced in a statement on Wednesday. Monfils has 13 ATP Tour titles to date, reached a career-high ranking of world No. 6, and made two Grand Slam semifinals. ✍️ James Hansen and @cdeccleshare.bsky.social

Coco Gauff said that her “pettiness” helped her to beat Belinda Bencic at the China Open in Beijing, after the Swiss player accused the American’s team of “mind games.” 🔗 theathletic.com/6676022/?sou...

Daniil Medvedev asked “why is every referee in the world trying to intimidate me?” during his China Open semifinal defeat to America’s Learner Tien, after being given a “best effort” warning for not moving to return a serve while suffering from debilitating cramps. 🔗 theathletic.com/6676084/?sou...

Carlos Alcaraz tightened his grip on the world No. 1 spot by beating a physically compromised Taylor Fritz 6-4, 6-4 to win the Japan Open Tuesday in Tokyo. More from @cdeccleshare.bsky.social ⬇️ 🔗 theathletic.com/6675895/?sou...

Carlos Alcaraz’s ceiling has been the highest on the ATP Tour for some time; now he is raising his floor, too. How did the world number one hit something close to his peak at the Japan Open? 📝 @cdeccleshare.bsky.social 🔗 theathletic.com/6670207/?sou...

Carlos Alcaraz said he was “scared” by the ankle injury he suffered during his Tokyo Open win over Sebástian Báez. Alcaraz went on to reach the second round, but it briefly looked as though he had suffered a serious injury in the first set. ✍️ @cdeccleshare.bsky.social 🔗 bit.ly/4mBNzIa

A group of leading men’s and women’s tennis players have sent a second series of letters to the Grand Slams pushing for reform of the sport. The letter was sent to all four majors on July 30 but is only coming to light today, and was signed by almost all of the world’s leading players.

Novak Djokovic will return to competitive tennis at the Shanghai Masters next month. Djokovic has not played a match since losing the U.S. Open semifinal to Carlos Alcaraz three weeks ago. More from @cdeccleshare.bsky.social ⤵️

At the Laver Cup, it became apparent that Carlos Alcaraz has the world at his feet. Off the court, his silver hair was the main topic of discussion. On the court, he was playing shots that left Roger Federer blown away by their absurdity. ✍️ @mattfutterman.bsky.social 🔗 bit.ly/3KgYtW3

At the Laver Cup this week, Roger Federer has likely spent more time courtside watching matches than he has anywhere else. What is it like to watch tennis with him? @mattfutterman.bsky.social finds out ⤵️ 🔗 bit.ly/48teG4y

The U.S. Open's atmosphere is irregular from most Tennis tournaments. Some players thrive, others... are not a fan. @cdeccleshare.bsky.social explains why.

Why can Carlos Alcaraz and tennis' other elite players struggle in doubles? Because they're playing an entirely different sport, @mattfutterman.bsky.social explains ⬇️

Jelena Ostapenko appeared to tell Taylor Townsend she has ‘no education’ immediately after her U.S. Open second-round defeat, in a row about a net cord. It was not the first heated handshake in tennis. @cdeccleshare.bsky.social explains why the ritual can become so intense. 🔗 bit.ly/4mzf5Xl

In April of 1993, Monica Seles and Steffi Graf were dueling for supremacy at the top of women’s tennis. Their titles and their rivalry catapulted them into stardom — and danger. 📝 @cdeccleshare.bsky.social 🔗 theathletic.com/6456273/?sou...

Victoria Mboko was ranked 350th at the end of last year and played Challenger tournaments through the first four months of 2025. Today, she completed a miracle comeback to beat Naomi Osaka and win the Canadian Open championship, her first WTA Tour tournament victory.

Clara Tauson dedicated her second WTA 1,000 semifinal of her career to her late grandfather, revealing that he had passed away during her run at the Canadian Open. “Two days ago, my grandfather unfortunately passed away, so I really wanted to win for him today,” she said after beating Madison Keys.

Soccer has its “new manager bounce.” Does tennis? Naomi Osaka may think so. Tomasz Wiktorowski has joined Osaka for a trial period in Canada, and so far, the bounce is bouncing - she is into the quarterfinals of a WTA 1,000 event for the first time since January 2024. @mattfutterman.bsky.social

Felipe Massa, Kevin Magnussen and Novak Djokovic have become investors of Ligue 2 club Le Mans FC through a Brazilian investment firm, the French club’s president announced on Friday. www.nytimes.com/athletic/653...

Any match between Corentin Moutet & Daniil Medvedev is likely to involve some cat-and-mouse, some junk balls, some improbably long points and some scrappy net dancing. So it was only right that during the quarterfinals of the D.C. Open in Washington, their match point contained all of the above.

World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka has withdrawn from the WTA 1,000 Canadian Open, which begins July 27 in Montreal. Sabalenka cited fatigue following her semifinal run at Wimbledon as her reason for pulling out of the tournament, which is one rung below the Grand Slams.

British tennis player Tara Moore has been handed a four-year anti-doping sanction despite previously being cleared of any wrongdoing. Moore was provisionally suspended after testing positive for the anabolic steroids boldenone and nandrolone in 2022. 🔗 www.nytimes.com/athletic/649...

A bit like Nadal finally recording the first "away" win in the Federer-Nadal rivalry at Wimbledon 2008, Sinner taking a first non-hard slam tilted the Alcaraz rivalry firmly in his favour Especially as it ended Alcaraz's five in a row streak against him. www.nytimes.com/athletic/649...

Jannik Sinner suffered the ultimate heartbreak of having three championship points and not winning the French Open. Then today, he blew a 4-2 lead to Carlos Alcaraz to lose the first set. But Sinner's response finally gave him the redemption he needed.

Jannik Sinner’s streak of five successive defeats vs. Carlos Alcaraz came to an end & culminated in his first Wimbledon title, his fourth Grand Slam title. What does this mean for their rivalry? Analysis from SW19 from @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @mattfutterman.bsky.social

Jannik Sinner beats Carlos Alcaraz 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 to win his first Wimbledon title.

Jannik Sinner is a set away from becoming Wimbledon champion. He leads defending champion Carlos Alcaraz by two sets to one. Follow here: bit.ly/3GIOUxI

Second set: Jannik Sinner ✅ The world number one responds and it's level in the men's Wimbledon final. Will this match go the distance? Follow here: bit.ly/3GIOUxI

First set: Carlos Alcaraz ✅ And what a shot to win it! 🔥

Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner walk out onto Centre Court to deafening cheers. Both wave to the crowd once before heading to their chairs and getting ready for business. Jannik Sinner wins the toss and, as expected, will receive first. Follow the men's Wimbledon final here: bit.ly/3GIOUxI