Spain's Rafael Nadal plays a forehand to Serbia's Dusan Lajovic during their round 3 match on day five of the Men's Italian Open at Foro Italico on September 18, 2020 in Rome, Italy. (Photo by Clive Brunskill / POOL / AFP) Rafael Nadal swept aside Serb Dusan Lajovic to reach the Italian Open...
Spain's Rafael Nadal plays a backhand to Spain's Pablo Carreno Busta on day three of the Men's Italian Open at Foro Italico on September 16, 2020 in Rome, Italy. (Photo by Riccardo Antimiani / POOL / AFP) ROME (AFP) -- Defending champion Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic made winning returns at the...
Italy's Lorenzo Musetti plays a forehand to Italy's Giulio Zeppieri on day one of the Internazionali BNL D'Italia ATP tour at Foro Italico on September 14, 2020 in Rome, Italy. (Photo by Riccardo ANTIMIANI / POOL / AFP) ROME (AFP) -- Switzerland's Stan Wawrinka crashed out of the Italian Open in...
Kei Nishikori of Japan plays a backhand to Albert Ramos-Vinolas of Spain on day one of the Internazionali BNL D'Italia ATP tour at Foro Italico on September 14, 2020 in Rome, Italy. (Photo by Clive Brunskill / POOL / AFP) ROME (AFP) -- Japan's Kei Nishikori got his first win in a year at the...
Rafael Nadal of Spain serves during a practice session on day one of the Internazionali BNL D'Italia ATP tour at Foro Italico on September 14, 2020 in Rome, Italy. (Photo by Clive BRUNSKILL / POOL / AFP) ROME (AFP) -- Rafael Nadal returns to competition after a six-month enforced break while Novak...
In this file photo Serena Williams of the US, center, shares a light moment with Rafael Nadal of Spain, left, and Novak Djokovic of Serbia as they and other top players play in the Rally for Relief charity tennis match in support of the victims of the Australian bushfires, in Melbourne of January...
Rafael Nadal (AFP) ROME, ITALY -- Rafael Nadal, absent from the US Open, is preparing for his return to competition after a six-month break at the Foro Italico in Rome, the organizers of the Italian Open tweeted on Thursday. "Rafa Nadal is already here, doing his first training sessions," said the...
Novak Djokovic of Serbia walks off the court after being defaulted due to inadvertently striking a lineswoman Laura Clark with a ball hit in frustration during his Men's Singles fourth round match against Pablo Carreno Busta of Spain on Day Seven of the 2020 US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King...
Novak Djokovic of Serbia tends to a lineswoman after inadvertently striking her with a ball hit in frustration during his Men's Singles fourth round match against Pablo Carreno Busta of Spain on Day Seven of the 2020 US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on September 6, 2020...
Novak Djokovic of Serbia (Matthew Stockman / Getty Images / AFP) Novak Djokovic said Friday that women will be a part of his proposed new players' association that is sending shockwaves through world tennis. The world number one said he had been talking to female players at the US Open this week to...
Novak Djokovic of Serbia (Matthew Stockman / Getty Images / AFP) NEW YORK -- Novak Djokovic said Wednesday he held no animosity towards rival stars Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal after they snubbed his call for the formation of a new players' association. Nadal and Federer called for ''unity, not...
Novak Djokovic of Serbia (Matthew Stockman / Getty Images / AFP) Overwhelming favorite Novak Djokovic begins his quest for an 18th Grand Slam title on Monday as a unique, spectator-free 2020 US Open gets underway in a COVID-19 quarantine bubble at Flushing Meadows. The world number one headlines...
