KAROLINA PLISKOVA

Tommy Paul has reached his first Grand Slam semifinal and ended the surprising run of Ben Shelton by winning their all-American matchup 7-6 (6), 6-3, 5-7, 6-4 at the Australian Open.

It’s been almost two full decades since this many U.S. men reached Week 2 at the Australian Open.

Top-ranked Iga Swiatek has beaten Jessica Pegula 6-3, 7-6 (4) in to reach the U.S. Open semifinals for the first time.

Frances Tiafoe has become the first American man to reach the U.S. Open semifinals since 2006.

Carlos Alcaraz has outlasted Jannik Sinner in the latest-finishing match in U.S. Open history, advancing to the semifinals with a 6-3, 6-7 (7), 6-7 (0), 7-5, 6-3 victory.

Frances Tiafoe has ended Rafael Nadal’s 22-match winning streak at Grand Slam tournaments by beating the 22-time major champion 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 in the U.S. Open’s fourth round.

Past U.S. Open champions Venus Williams, Naomi Osaka and Emma Raducanu all have lost in straight sets in the first round of the U.S. Open.

Serena Williams has fallen to 0-2 in matches since announcing “the countdown has begun” on her career.

Roger Federer has dropped out of the ATP rankings entirely for the first time in a quarter-century.

Centre Court at the current Church Road location of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club opened in 1922.

Katie Boulter was back on the grass at Wimbledon two days after the death of her grandmother.

Petra Kvitova has plenty of experience on the grass courts of Wimbledon.

Nick Kyrgios has been fined $10,000 for unsportsmanlike conduct in his first-round Wimbledon victory.

Two-time Wimbledon champion Andy Murray has lost in the second round to big-serving American John Isner.

Let’s take a look at the odds courtesy of FanDuel Sportsbook before discussing the best bets to be made. Wimbledon women’s singles drawSerena Williams is playing for the first time since suffering a knee injury last year at Wimbledon, so the big story at Friday’s draw ceremony was where she would land in the bracket. 5 Maria Sakkari and 2021 U.S. Open champion Emma Raducanu. Wimbledon women’s singles best betsGiven Swiatek’s such short odds, we don’t advise betting on the top seed. In two previous trips to Wimbledon, Gauff reached the fourth round – and that was when she was just 15 and 17 years old (2019 and 2021).

Teenager Holger Rune has given a Denmark a man in the fourth round at Roland Garros for the first time in 63 years.

The surprising results in the women's draw at the French Open keep piling up and now only three of the top 10 women's seeds are still in the field before the third round has even started.

Alizé Cornet has beaten 2017 champion Jelena Ostapenko 6-0, 1-6, 6-3 to advance to the third round at the French Open.

Top-ranked Novak Djokovic is on the entry list for the BNP Paribas Open in California, where the Serb would face a vaccine mandate.

Wimbledon champion Ash Barty has finished No. 1 in the WTA singles rankings for the third consecutive season.

Garbiñe Muguruza has ended Anett Kontaveit´s 12-match winning streak with a 6-4, 6-4 victory that propelled her into the semifinals of the WTA Finals.

Anett Kontaveit stretched her winning streak to 12 matches by beating Karolina Pliskova 6-4, 6-0 to secure a spot in the semifinals at the WTA Finals.

Nikoloz Basilashvili beat American Taylor Fritz 7-6 (5), 6-3 to set up a final against Cameron Norrie at the BNP Paribas Open.

Grigor Dimitrov beat top-seeded Daniil Medvedev 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 in the fourth round of the BNP Paribas Open, extending the parade of upsets that has knocked out several top players.

Emma Raducanu’s qualifier-to-champion run at the U.S. Open has vaulted her 127 spots in the WTA rankings to a career-high No. 23.

British teenager Emma Raducanu has become the first qualifier in the professional era to reach the U.S. Open semifinals.

Novak Djokovic has won two straight sets to put himself on the verge of the U.S. Open semifinals.

This is the first time in U.S. Open history that no men or women from the host country has made it to the quarterfinals in singles.

Kei Nishikori is the next man standing between Novak Djokovic and the completion of a calendar-year Grand Slam at the U.S. Open.

Two-time Grand Slam runner-up Karolina Pliskova has saved a match point and edged 75th-ranked American Amanda Anisimova in three sets to reach the U.S. Open’s third round.

Novak Djokovic has started his bid to make history at the U.S. Open with a four-set victory over Danish teenager Holger Vitus Nodskov Rune.

Karolina Pliskova and Reilly Opelka were among the early winners on the second day of the U.S. Open.

Ash Barty and Bianca Andreescu are back at the U.S. Open after missing it last year.

Novak Djokovic will begin his bid to win the U.S. Open for a men’s-record 21st major tennis championship and to complete a calendar-year Grand Slam by facing a player who comes through qualifying.

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Ash Barty bounced back from a disappointing loss at the Tokyo Olympics.

Naomi Osaka made quick work of her first match in nearly two months.

Karolina Pliskova is able to laugh about it now.

Barty’s most significant wobble came late in the second set. Because of the threat of showers, Barty and Pliskova shared a warmup session under the roof at No. She lobbed Pliskova, who at 6-foot-1 is 8 inches taller than the 5-foot-5 Barty, to win a point. The key stat by the finish probably was this: Barty won 22 of 31 points that lasted nine strokes or more. Pliskova finally got the measure of her strokes in the second set, in which she twice trailed by a break before pulling it out.

Ash Barty has won the Wimbledon championship for her second Grand Slam title.

The Centre Court crowd enjoyed a bit of royal and Hollywood glitz during the women’s final at Wimbledon.

Ash Barty will face Karolina Pliskova in the first Wimbledon final for both.

Top-seeded Nikola Mektic and Mate Pavic have reached their 10th doubles final of the season by beating Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury at Wimbledon.

Only four of the best tennis players remain in London, with a chance for a couple to make their first trips to the championship match at Wimbledon. The top-seed is continuing to stay on track as she heads to her third Grand Slam semifinal, and her first of the year. Angelique Kerber took hom the crown back in 2018, but has not been to a Grand Slam Final since. Karolina Pliskova is having her best Wimbledon performance of her career, and is competing in her first Grand Slam semifinal since Australia in 2019. WIMBLEDON LADIES’ SINGLES SEMIFINALSWhen: Thursday, July 8Time: 8:00 a.m.Where: All English Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club (London, England)Channel: ESPNStream: FuboTV (7-day free trial)WOMEN’S DRAW (All times ET)

Eight-time Wimbledon champion Roger Federer has been beaten in straight sets by 14th-seeded Hubert Hurkacz in the quarterfinals at the All England Club.

Angelique Kerber has reached the semifinals at Wimbledon for the first time since winning the title there in 2018.

Top-ranked Ash Barty has reached her first Wimbledon semifinal.

Only eight remain in the ladies’s singles draw at Wimbledon, just hours removed from their Round of 16 contests. After dropping a set in her first match against Carla Suarez Navarro, Barty has not lost a set heading into Tuesday. Watch the Wimbledon Championships on FuboTV (7-day free trial)The first quarterfinal of the day will feature Czech Republic native Karolina Pliskova taking on Viktorija Golubic. Karolina Muchova will meet former Wimbledon champion Angelique Kerber. WIMBLEDON LADIES’ SINGLES QUARTERFINALSWhen: Tuesday, July 6Time: 8:00 a.m.Where: All English Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club (London, England)Channel: ESPN (Main Court), ESPN2 (Seconday Court)Stream: FuboTV (7-day free trial)WOMEN’S DRAW

Wimbledon’s traditional Middle Sunday of rest will disappear in 2022.

Sebastian Korda is the son of two former professional tennis players and the brother of two current stars of women's golf.

Serena Williams is out of Wimbledon after she stopped playing her first-round match because of a right leg injury.

Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer have been placed on opposite sides of the Wimbledon bracket.

Lucky losers Max Purcell and Kwon Soon-woo have won quarterfinals at the grass-court Eastbourne tournament to mark the first time in ATP Tour history that more than one man who lost in qualifying reached the semifinals of the same event.

Roger Federer dislikes the implication he’s slowing down.