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Debbie Jevans has been named vice-chair of the All England Club ahead of this year's Wimbledon Championships. The 62-year-old will succeed current chair Ian Hewitt at the end of July, following the tournament. Wimbledon's two top jobs will then be held by women, after Sally Bolton became chief...

Nick Kyrgios has undergone arthroscopic knee surgery in Canberra. The Australian, who was forced to pull out of his home tournament on the eve of his opening match with a knee injury, posted a picture on Instagram saying he will now "be doing everything I can do get back to my best".

Dominic Thiem has confirmed he suffered a rib injury during the Australian Open, but will look to recover for Davis Cup qualifiers which begin next month. Thiem, a former US Open champion, has struggled with injuries in recent years and fallen to No 98 in the world as a result. The Austrian...

The men's doubles at Wimbledon is to change from best-of-five sets to best of three, the All England Club has announced. The change will take effect from this year's championships, which get under way on July 3. Wimbledon's five-set format in the men's doubles has been criticised in the past...

Nine-time Wimbledon men's doubles champion Todd Woodbridge said it was "heartbreaking" to hear the All England Club had made the decision to cut the event to best-of-three sets rather than five from this year. Wimbledon organisers announced the decision on Wednesday, dispensing with 138 years...

All four tennis Grand Slams will make it a priority to safeguard the Davis Cup men's team tournament, the governing body of the sport's most prestigious events said on Friday, two weeks after the ITF's partnership with investment group Kosmos ended. The International Tennis Federation said that...

Andy Murray has pulled out of the Rotterdam Open following his gruelling efforts at the Australian Open. The former world No 1 was scheduled to return to action at the indoor hard-court Rotterdam Open, which starts on February 13. The 35-year-old spent more than 14 hours on court across three...

The LTA has announced that adult participation in tennis increased by 43 per cent on the previous year in 2022. The number of adults that reported they had played tennis went from 3.3 million to 4.7 million to mark the highest total recorded since 2017. The LTA added that over...

Top seed Bianca Andreescu defeated Anastasia Zakharova at the Thailand Open to reach her first quarter-final since her run to the Bad Homburg final last June.

Felix Auger-Aliassime will return to Laver Cup competition when Team World begins its title defence at Rogers Arena in Vancouver from September 22-24. The top ranked Canadian is the first player to be named in captain John McEnroe's six-man team. Auger-Aliassime, who returns to Laver Cup for a...

Britain's Dan Evans suffered a surprise 6-2 2-6 6-4 defeat to Nicolas Mejia in a crucial Davis Cup Qualifier on Friday. Victory for world No 253 Mejia handed Colombia a crucial 1-0 lead on the clay courts of Pueblo Viejo Country Club which is being played 2,500 metres above sea level on the...

Dan Evans made up for Friday's shock Davis Cup singles' defeat as he won on his doubles' debut alongside Neal Skupski. The British duo secured a vital 6-4 6-4 victory against Robert Farah and Juan Sebastian Cabal of Colombia to help the visitors move 2-1 up in the tie needing to win one of the...

Lesia Tsurenko of Ukraine reached her first final in four years after the top-seeded Bianca Andreescu retired with a shoulder injury during their semi-final at the Thailand Open on Saturday. Tsurenko, in search of her fifth WTA title, was leading the 2019 US Open champion 7-5 4-0 when the...

Unseeded American Alycia Parks secured a stunning 7-6 (9-7) 7-5 upset win over WTA Finals champion Caroline Garcia in the Open Mtropole de Lyon final to clinch her first career title on Sunday. The 22-year-old Parks, who is ranked 79th in the world, landed 15 aces and saved all four break...

Andy Murray has taken a wild card into the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships later this month. The Scot is a former champion at the ATP Tour event having beaten Fernando Verdasco in the final in 2017, Murray's last title before hip problems struck that summer. Murray showed arguably his...

British No 1 Emma Raducanu will have to bide her time and wait for withdrawals after being announced as the fourth main draw alternate for the women's entry list into Indian Wells which begins on March 6 and runs through until March 19. The former US Open champion has dropped down to No 80 in...

Moroccan former tennis player Younes Rachidi has been banned from the sport for life after being found guilty of fixing 135 matches, the highest number of offences by one individual ever detected, the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA). The 36-year-old was involved in match-fixing...

British No 1 Emma Raducanu has been handed a wild card for next month's WTA 1000 event at Indian Wells, tournament organisers announced on Thursday. Raducanu, whose world ranking has dropped to 80, had initially been announced as the fourth main draw alternate for the tournament, which begins...

John Isner extended his record by winning his 499th career tie-break, advancing to the quarter-finals of his hometown Dallas Open with a 6-3 7-6 (7-1) victory over Daniel Altmaier. Roger Federer is second in career tie-break victories with 466. "I played a great tiebreaker to win the match...

American John Isner entered the ATP Tour record books on Friday by becoming the first man to win 500 tour-level tie-breaks in his 7-6 (10-8) 7-5 victory over Emilio Gomez in the Dallas Open quarter-finals. Isner's 500 career tie-break victories put him 34 ahead of Swiss great Roger Federer on...