UPDATED AFTER ROME FOR FRIDAY HOW THE LEADING WOMEN SHAPE UP FOR THE 2015 FRENCH OPEN SERENA WILLIAMS (USA) Age: 33 Ranking: 1 Plays: right-handed (two-handed backhand) Career prize money: …

Serena Williams enters the French Open with tennis legend Martina Navratilova predicting the raging title favourite will chalk up major number 20 and maybe even catch Margaret Smith’s all-time grand …

UPDATED AFTER ROME MASTERS HOW THE LEADING MEN SHAPE UP FOR THE 2015 FRENCH OPEN NOVAK DJOKOVIC (SRB) Age: 28 Ranking: 1 Plays: right-handed (two-handed backhand) Career prize money: $US78,397,032 …

Only injury or suffocating pressure can seemingly stop Novak Djokovic from completing a fabled career grand slam with long-awaited French Open glory. The world No.1 enters the claycourt major starting …

Boom Australian teenager Thanasi Kokkinakis declared his French Open intentions after wowing Andy Murray in a dazzling centre-court practise session at Roland Garros. Flying at a career-best ranking after breaking …

Samantha Stosur has won her all-Aussie Strasbourg quarter-final against Ajla Tomljanovic in three sets 6-4 3-6 6-4. Stosur took a little over two hours to defeat Tomljanovic in a match …

Australian James Duckworth has cashed in on the withdrawal of Nice Open top seed Gilles Simon to reach the quarter-finals of an ATP event for only the second time. While …

Nick Kyrgios has played down injury concerns on a day of mixed fortunes for Australia’s French Open hopefuls. Kyrgios is racing the clock to be fully fit for the claycourt …

There are questions over the participation of Australia’s two top men’s players at the French Open after Nick Kyrgios joined Bernard Tomic in retiring from the Nice ATP event on …

Bernard Tomic’s struggles on clay have continued ahead of the French Open, the Australian No.1 retiring during his first round ATP match in Nice. Tomic pulled the pin after going …

Russia’s Maria Sharapova has warmed up for the defence of her French Open title by securing a third Italian Open crown with a 4-6 7-5 6-1 win over Spain’s Carla …

For the past 10 years Rafael Nadal has been virtually unbeatable at Roland Garros, but that could all change at this year’s French Open as the Spaniard’s woes continue on …

Swiss Roger Federer beat countryman Stan Wawrinka 6-4 6-2 in the Italian Open semi-final to set up his third ATP final of the year against Serbian rival Novak Djokovic. Wawrinka …

World number one Serena Williams has extended her unbeaten record this season to 22 matches with a routine 6-4 6-0 win over Sloane Stephens to move into the third round …

Andy Murray won the first clay-court title of his career when he saw off Germany’s Philipp Kohlschreiber in a tough three-setter during Monday’s rain-delayed final of Munich’s ATP tournament. The …

Samantha Stosur has made an encouraging return from a foot injury with a three-set victory over in-form German Angelique Kerber at the Madrid Open. Stosur hasn’t played since the Charleston …

Nick Kyrgios is on the verge of a French Open seeding despite his straight-sets loss to Richard Gasquet in the Estoril Open final. Kyrgios went down to the Frenchman 6-3 …

World number two Simona Halep crashed to a shock 7-6 (8/6) 6-3 defeat to France’s Alize Cornet, whilst Eugenie Bouchard’s slump continued in the first round of the Madrid Open. …