CASPER RUUD

Novak Djokovic makes history just about every time he wins another match.

None of the so-called Big Three of men’s tennis is in the No. 1 or No. 2 spots in the ATP rankings.

American teenager Coco Gauff has moved up to a career-best No. 13 in the WTA rankings after her runner-up finish to No. 1 Iga Swiatek at the French Open.

France Tennis French Open Spain's Rafael Nadal kisses the cup after defeating Norway's Casper Ruud in their final match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium Sunday, June 5, 2022 in Paris. Nadal won 6-3, 6-3, 6-0. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias) (Jean-Francois Badias)PARIS — (AP) — Rafael Nadal, a French Open champion for the 14th time at age 36, is, in obvious ways, different from Rafael Nadal, a French Open champion for the first time all the way back in 2005 at age 19. Doesn’t really seem much reason for Nadal to quit now, considering that he navigated his way past four French Open opponents ranked in the top 10 (No. Nadal usually won those, and Ruud joked the other day that’s because he was trying to be a polite guest.

French Open champion Rafael Nadal says he needed multiple injections to dull the pain in his left foot before matches in the tournament and unless he can find another solution for the chronic problem he won’t be able to play at Wimbledon and isn’t sure about his future in tennis.

Rafael Nadal tells TV rights holder Eurosport in an interview on court after the French Open final that he played the match with “no feeling in” his left foot after getting an “injection on the nerve.”.

Top-ranked Iga Swiatek has beaten 18-year-old American Coco Gauff 6-1, 6-3 in the French Open final to collect her second title at Roland Garros and stretch her winning streak to 35 matches.

Marcelo Arevalo of El Salvador and Jean-Julien Rojer of Netherlands won the French Open men’s doubles championship by beating Ivan Dodig of Croatia and Austin Krajicek of the U.S. 6-7 (4), 7-6 (5), 6-3 in the final.

Rafael Nadal has advanced to the French Open final after Alexander Zverev fell during a point, injured his right ankle and stopped playing.

Casper Ruud has become the first Norwegian man to reach a Grand Slam singles final by eliminating 2014 U.S. Open champion Marin Cilic 3-6, 6-4, 6-2, 6-2 at Roland Garros.

American teenager Coco Gauff has reached her first Grand Slam final by beating Martina Trevisan of Italy 6-3, 6-1 at the French Open.

Rafael Nadal showed up at Roland Garros with his personal doctor along for the trip.

Marin Cilic has reached his first French Open semifinal at age 33 with the help of 33 aces.

Top-seeded Iga Swiatek has moved into the French Open semifinals with a 6-3, 6-2 victory over American Jessica Pegula.

Marin Cilic has dominated a fifth-set tiebreaker against seventh-seeded Andrey Rublev to advance to his first French Open semifinal.

Iga Swiatek’s 20-set winning streak ended but her run of consecutive match victories is now up to 32 as she heads to the French Open quarterfinals.

Top-ranked Iga Swiatek has won 31 consecutive matches and 48 of her past 49 sets as she heads toward the fourth round of the French Open.

APTOPIX France Tennis French Open France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga has a mark on his forehead after kissing the clay after losing to Norway's Casper Ruud in a first round match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium Tuesday, May 24, 2022 in Paris. So they flowed freely during the final moments of his final match at the French Open, the final singles match of his professional tennis career, and he wiped them away with the black sweatband on his left wrist. 5 in the rankings, a run to the 2008 Australian Open final and France's first Davis Cup title in 16 years — but also a series of injuries. Ruud quickly broke back, and Tsonga was visited by a trainer, who tried to help the situation but could not. Adrenaline you can feel when you have 15,000 people shouting your name.”It all offered the most compelling moments of Day 3, which included first-round victories in the men's bracket for U.S. Open champion Daniil Medvedev, 2021 French Open runner-up Stefanos Tsitsipas, No.

APTOPIX France Tennis French Open France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga has a mark on his forehead after kissing the clay after losing to Norway's Casper Ruud in a first round match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium Tuesday, May 24, 2022 in Paris. So they flowed freely during the final moments of his final match at the French Open, the final singles match of his professional tennis career, and he wiped them away with the black sweatband on his left wrist. 5 in the rankings, a run to the 2008 Australian Open final and France's first Davis Cup title in 16 years — but also a series of injuries. Ruud quickly broke back, and Tsonga was visited by a trainer, who tried to help the situation but could not. It is a tough time for tennis in the land of the French Open: For the first time since 1980, there were zero men or women from the country seeded in the tournament.

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga has ended his career as a singles tennis player with a 6-7 (6), 7-6 (4), 6-2, 7-6 (0) loss to Casper Ruud in the first round of the French Open.

Naomi Osaka’s return to the French Open will be a tough test against the player who beat her at the Australian Open, No. 27 Amanda Anisimova.

Rafael Nadal has gotten is off to a good start in his return from injury, defeating Miomir Kecmanovic in two sets to reach the third round at the Madrid Open.

Iga Swiatek has moved up one spot to the top of the WTA rankings and is the first tennis player from Poland to be No. 1 in the sport.

Spanish fans brought plenty of their nation’s flags to Hard Rock Stadium, thrusting them into the air whenever things were going well for Carlos Alcaraz.

Iga Swiatek ended her journey to the women’s No. 1 ranking in fitting fashion.

The unseeded Osaka will meet second-seeded Iga Swiatek in the Miami Open women’s final. 1-ranked player against the woman who will replace the now-retired Ash Barty atop the women’s rankings on Monday. “A lot of people have been telling me, ‘You’re back’ and stuff like that,” Osaka told reporters after qualifying for the final. She is 16-0 since and on the brink of completing the Sunshine Double — championships at both Indian Wells and Miami. 6 seed Casper Ruud earned the first spot in the title match by defeating Francisco Cerundolo 6-4, 6-1 in Friday’s semifinals.

Naomi Osaka is playing her first final in more than a year on Saturday, which sounds like a comeback story.

Naomi Osaka has reached a championship match for the first time since the 2021 Australian Open.

Daniil Medvedev is one win away from returning to No. 1.

Paula Badosa was midway through an on-court interview after another victory at the Miami Open when a thought crossed her mind.

APTOPIX Argentina Open Tennis Casper Ruud of Norway holds the trophy after winning the Argentina Open tennis singles final, at Guillermo Vilas Stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, Feb. 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Gustavo Garello) (Gustavo Garello)BUENOS AIRES — (AP) — Casper Ruud of Norway beat home-crowd favorite Diego Schwartzman 5-7, 6-2, 6-3 on Sunday to win his second Argentina Open. 15 in the world and won last year's Argentina Open. The 23-year-old Norwegian has never lost at the Buenos Aires Lawn Tennis Club, holding a record of 9 wins and 0 losses. Schwartzman bested Spain’s Jaume Munar, Argentina’s Francisco Cerundolo and Italy’s Sonego to play the decider in Buenos Aires.

Casper Ruud of Norway beat home-crowd favorite Diego Schwartzman to win his second Argentina Open.

Australian Open Tennis Daniil Medvedev of Russia reacts after defeating Henri Laaksonen of Switzerland in their first round match at the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, Australia, Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Hamish Blair) (Hamish Blair)MELBOURNE, Australia — (AP) — The Latest on Tuesday from the Australian Open at Melbourne Park (all times local):___4:50 p.m. ___4 p.m.Eighth-seeded Casper Ruud has been forced to withdraw from his first-round match at the Australian Open because of an ankle injury. __3:25 p.m.U.S. Open finalist Leylah Fernandez has lost in the first round of the Australian Open to local wild-card entry Maddison Inglis. This is Muguruza's 10th Australian Open main draw appearance and she's never lost a first-round match.

(AP Photo/Mark Baker) (Mark Baker)MELBOURNE, Australia — (AP) — The Latest on Tuesday from the Australian Open at Melbourne Park (all times local):___4 p.m.Eighth-seeded Casper Ruud has been forced to withdraw from his first-round match at the Australian Open because of an ankle injury. __3:25 p.m.U.S. Open finalist Leylah Fernandez has lost in the first round of the Australian Open to local wild-card entry Maddison Inglis. She lost in the first round at last year’s Australian Open to then defending champion Sofia Kenin. The 2020 Australian Open finalist and winner of the 2016 French Open and 2017 Wimbledon tournaments has never lost a first-round match in her now 10th year of competition here. This is Muguruza's 10th Australian Open main draw appearance and she's never lost a first-round match.

Alexander Zverev has denied Novak Djokovic the chance to play for a big trophy for the second time this year.

Novak Djokovic has advanced to the semifinals of the ATP Finals by beating Andrey Rublev 6-3, 6-2.

Five-time champion Novak Djokovic has reopened his ATP Finals account and beaten Casper Ruud 7-6, 6-2 in Turin.

Strong serving and consistent baseline play propelled U.S. Open champion Daniil Medvedev to a 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-4 win over first-time qualifier Hubert Hurkacz in the opening match of the ATP Finals.

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.

The pandemic-delayed fourth edition of the Laver Cup — and first without Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal or Novak Djokovic participating — began Friday with Team Europe taking a 3-1 lead over Team World thanks to victories in singles from Matteo Berrettini, Casper Ruud and Andrey Rublev. Italy's Berrettini, the runner-up to Djokovic at Wimbledon in July, saved 12 of 13 break points and came back to edge Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime in a match tiebreaker 6-7 (3), 7-5, 10-8.

Canadian teenager Leylah Fernandez has followed up her upset of defending champion Naomi Osaka at the U.S. Open by beating another past title winner at Flushing Meadows.

After reaching the U.S. Open final last year with no fans, Victoria Azarenka appreciates playing in front of people again.

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.

US Open Tennis Yuichi Sugita, of Japan, returns a shot to Casper Ruud, of Norway, during the first round of the US Open tennis championships, Monday, Aug. 30, 2021, in New York. 21-seeded Gauff advanced to face 2017 U.S. Open champion Sloane Stephens in the second round. ___6:40 p.m.Three-time U.S. Open runner-up Victoria Azarenka has moved into the second round, winning the final 11 games to beat Tereza Martincova 6-4, 6-0. ___5:35 p.m.Kevin Anderson took a long route to the second round. Ostapenko, the 2017 French Open champion, also pulled out Monday for medical reasons.

US Open Tennis Yuichi Sugita, of Japan, returns a shot to Casper Ruud, of Norway, during the first round of the US Open tennis championships, Monday, Aug. 30, 2021, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) (John Minchillo)NEW YORK — (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. Open tennis tournament (all times local):___6:40 p.m.Three-time U.S. Open runner-up Victoria Azarenka has moved into the second round, winning the final 11 games to beat Tereza Martincova 6-4, 6-0. The 2017 U.S. Open runner-up outlasted Jiri Vesely 7-6 (1), 4-6, 3-6, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (4) in a match that lasted 4 hours, 22 minutes. ___1 p.m.Australian Open runner-up Jennifer Brady has withdrawn from the U.S. Open because of an injury. Ostapenko, the 2017 French Open champion, also pulled out Monday for medical reasons.

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.

For an audience with the “King of Clay,” the current queen of clay wants to be come prepared.

There are no American men in the ATP's Top 30 for the first time in the nearly half-century of ATP computerized tennis rankings.

Aryna Sabalenka is glad she changed her mind about playing at the Madrid Open.

Italy's Matteo Berrettini, left, receives medical treatment during a break while playing Russia's Karen Khachanov during their third round match at the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, Australia, Saturday, Feb. 13, 2021. 1-ranked Djokovic, who sees what is happening all around Melbourne Park and draws a direct connection to the 14-day quarantines imposed because of the coronavirus pandemic when players arrived in Australia in January. Ad“It's too many injuries, honestly,” Djokovic said, then sighed heavily, during an on-court interview after his four-set quarterfinal victory against Alexander Zverev. “I'm just hoping this is all temporary, so we can kind of go back to what we are kind of used to, without interruptions of practice,” Djokovic continued. It's really — it's taken its toll, unfortunately, on all of us.”Zverev's midsection, like Djokovic's, was taped up for their match.

(AP Photo/Peter Dejong)PARIS – Sebastian Korda was 9, heart set on a hockey career, when he went with his father, Petr, to the 2009 U.S. Open. By then, Petr — 1998 Australian Open champion, 1992 French Open finalist — had retired as a competitor and turned to coaching. Went home, came back the next year, and said, ‘This is exactly what I want to do,’” Korda said. “Everybody is always asking him: ‘Are you the son of Petr Korda?’ Which I would love to change in the future,” Dad said in a telephone interview, “so that people ask me, ‘Are you Sebastian’s father? On Sunday, Korda plays 12-time champion Rafael Nadal, while Gaston meets U.S. Open champion Dominic Thiem.