On a crisp Beijing afternoon, Coco Gauff walked onto the court, knowing her journey at the China Open wouldn’t get easier. Across the net stood Belinda Bencic, a player whose tactical smarts and fighting spirit have undone many top names. What followed ...

Today, a precise Sharapova won eight straight games in powering past American qualifier Jamie Hampton, 6-0, 6-1, in 64 minutes. A stingy Sharapova stomped Gisela Dulko by the same score in the first round.

Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova surprised tennis fans on Saturday when Williams walked out to introduce Sharapova into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. The two tennis stars shared a long rivalry that Williams described Saturday as “so electric ...

Bouchard called the Russian "a cheater" last week and suggested she should have been banned for life. Maria Sharapova celebrates winning in Stuttgart in April p pulse Follow Maria Sharapova set up a mouth-watering second-round clash with Eugenie Bouchard ...

Asked yesterday about the holes in her jeans, Victoria Azarenka joked that she was “trying to win the final to afford a new ones.” Asked about the grunting, she joked that Maria Sharapova is louder, then playfully told the journalist,

Newport is no stranger to celebrity sightings, and there were certainly going to be stars in town over the weekend as Maria Sharapova along with Bob and Mike Bryan were inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. But the weekend stars shined a ...

Five-time Grand Slam champion Maria Sharapova has announced her retirement. "Tennis -- I'm saying goodbye," she wrote in an essay that appeared Wednesday in Vogue and Vanity Fair. Sharapova turned pro in 2001 at age 14. She won Wimbledon in 2004, the US ...