Tennis

8:05 PM ET Simon Cambers LONDON — The injury to Serena Williams, who retired midway through the first set of her match with Aliaksandra Sasnovich after twice slipping on the Centre Court grass in the same game, provoked headlines and questions. Is the Wimbledon grass more slippery than usual? Has anything changed? Is it just

3:11 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com Serena Williams retired from her first round match at Wimbledon on Tuesday against Aliaksandra Sasnovich with an apparent right leg injury. Holding a 3-1 lead in the first set, Williams slipped and needed to take an injury timeout to receive treatment. She returned to the court but her movement was

6:40 AM ET GOAT debates endure for every sport, both because they get people fired up and they don’t ever have a singular, definitive answer. We can argue forever if we want to. That’s doubly true for an individual sport. Achievements, influence, the era in which you played … lots of things can go into

1:34 PM ET Simon Cambers American Sloane Stephens caused the first big shock on the women’s side at Wimbledon on Monday when she took out two-time champion Petra Kvitova 6-3, 6-4 on Centre Court. The former US Open champion, a quarterfinalist at Wimbledon in 2013, returned aggressively and never allowed 10th-seed Kvitova, the winner in

12:58 PM ET Kathleen McNamee American Frances Tiafoe pulled off the first major upset at Wimbledon 2021 on Monday as he beat world No. 4 Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-4, 6-4, 6-3 to advance to the second round. Tsitsipas was favored to win the match having come second to Novak Djokovic in the French Open final earlier

5:46 AM ET With the return of tennis at Wimbledon on Monday, the only thing perfectly clear about the sport’s reentry from the pandemic will be the crisp whites that players don at the All England Club over the next two weeks. The sport is in the middle of its own edgy transition. Like restaurants,

4:21 PM ET Simon Cambers Britain’s Johanna Konta was withdrawn from Wimbledon on Sunday after she was deemed to be a close contact of a team member who tested positive for COVID-19. Konta, the world No 31, a Wimbledon semifinalist in 2017 and Britain’s highest-ranked woman, was removed from the draw and replaced by China’s

7:00 AM ET ESPN staff After two years, we’re finally back at the All England Club. Wimbledon 2021 kicks off Monday, and even with heavy hitters like Naomi Osaka and Rafael Nadal not competing, it’s sure to be an entertaining Slam. Serena Williams is chasing her 24th Slam title to tie Margaret Court for most

10:41 AM ET Associated Press Jelena Ostapenko and Alex de Minaur tuned up for Wimbledon in the best way possible, winning the first grass-court titles of their careers at the Eastbourne tournament on Saturday. Ostapenko, the 2017 French Open champion and a wild-card entry in Eastbourne, collected her first WTA trophy since 2019 and fourth

1:11 PM ET Kathleen McNamee Nick Kyrgios has announced former world No. 1 Venus Williams will be his mixed doubles partner at Wimbledon as he makes his return to tennis. Kyrgios, 26, had tweeted on Tuesday implying he would be involved with the mixed doubles and confirmed his partner as Williams when asked during a

7:17 AM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com It’s been two long years since competition was last held at the All England Club. After the longest break in Wimbledon history since World War II, the main draw of the 2021 tournament will begin on Monday. While this is exciting news for players and fans alike, there’s just one

6:40 PM ET Associated Press Novak Djokovic said he has been speaking to top women tennis pros, including Serena Williams, about the players’ association that he and Vasek Pospisil founded in the hopes of gaining “more access and more transparency” — and a larger cut of the sport’s revenues. “You start to realize that the

6:36 AM ET Wimbledon returns this year on Monday, June 28, on ESPN after the oldest tennis tournament in the world was canceled last year amid the COVID-19 pandemic. We will have information about the results, key players and big storylines over the course of the Grand Slam, from the time the draw is released

8:23 AM ET Simon Cambers This year’s Wimbledon draw created the delicious possibility of another final between Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer, two years after their epic clash when Djokovic saved two match points before winning his fifth title. It also produced a number of intriguing early matches and put Serena Williams on a semifinal

5:29 AM ET Defending women’s singles champion Simona Halep has pulled out of Wimbledon due to injury, the world No. 3 Romanian said on Friday. In May, Halep exited the claycourt event in Rome after suffering a calf injury during her second-round match against Angelique Kerber and was subsequently forced to miss the French Open.

12:21 PM ET World No. 5 Dominic Thiem has pulled out of Wimbledon due to a right wrist injury that will keep him out of action for several weeks, the 27-year-old said on Thursday. Thiem was forced to retire from his opening match at the Mallorca Open on Tuesday — the Austrian’s first grasscourt event

11:24 AM ET Italian qualifier Camila Giorgi continued her impressive form at the Eastbourne championships by removing top seed Aryna Sabalenka in the quarterfinals on Thursday. Giorgi, a quarterfinalist at Wimbledon in 2018, used her aggressive game to claim a 7-6(5), 0-6 6-4 victory and set up a semifinal against Estonian Anett Kontaveit. 1 Related

11:43 AM ET American teenager Coco Gauff’s Wimbledon preparations suffered a blip as she bowed out of the Eastbourne tournament on Wednesday, losing to Latvia’s Anastasija Sevastova 4-6, 7-5, 6-2. Sevastova, who is world No. 64, broke Gauff’s serve to claim the first set. The American hit back soon after, edging the second set to