Williams back in ITIA pool for first time since 2022 Move required before any potential competitive return Could be eligible to play again as early as mid-2026 Serena Williams has taken the procedural move required of any retired player contemplating a competitive comeback, after the 23-time grand slam singles champion re-entered the International Tennis Integrity Agency’s (ITIA) registered testing pool for the first time since 2022. Williams, 44, has not played an official match since her run to the third round of the US Open more than three years ago. Although she described her departure at the time as “evolving away” from the sport rather than a hard retirement, she filed the paperwork with the ITIA that September that exempted her from the sport’s stringent, year-round whereabouts requirements. To return to competition, however, retired athletes must make themselves available for out-of-competition testing for six months before they are allowed to enter an event. Continue reading...

The 'Battle of the Sexes' exhibition match between Aryna Sabalenka and Nick Kyrgios will be shown live on BBC One on 28 December.

British No 1 on home comforts of Bromley, joys of commuting and being ‘creeped out’ by paparazzi Emma Raducanu has garnered many endorsement deals in her nascent career, but there is perhaps one elusive sponsorship that would be most pleasing to the British No 1 women’s tennis player: ambassador of the London Borough of Bromley. During a roundtable discussion with tennis journalists at the end of a gruelling yet satisfying season, Raducanu is merely attempting to describe a quiet off-season spent in her family home when she finds herself delivering a sales pitch about the benefits of living in Bromley. “I’m just so settled,” she says. “I’ve barely been in the UK this year because I’ve been competing so much, but I think just spending really good quality time with my parents has been so nice. I have loved just being in Bromley. It just reminds me of when I was a younger kid and it’s the same bedroom, same everything. Continue reading...

Emma Raducanu hopes to develop a better base level in 2026 so she can dictate matches and worry less about her opponents' strengths.

Emma Raducanu is now comfortable travelling by public transport and does not feel she is "hiding from anything any more" after her stalking ordeal.

Andy Murray says he's glad he got to coach former rival Novak Djokovic, but was disappointed it didn't lead to more wins.

Andy Murray says he "probably didn't get the results I would have liked" for Novak Djokovic during his time coaching his former rival earlier this year.

Nicola Pietrangeli, the winningest Davis Cup player of all time and most accomplished Italian tennis player before Jannik Sinner, has died at the age of 92.

Italian tennis great Nicola Pietrangeli, a two-time French Open champion, dies at the age of 92.

SW19 champion baffled by post-match suggestions she should have let Amanda Anisimova win one game in grand slam final as she turns focus to Australian Open in 2026 In the coming months, if and when her schedule allows, Iga Swiatek will make a pilgrimage to London and the All England Club, the scene of her biggest and, she admits, most surprising triumph. In July, the 24-year-old won her first Wimbledon title and sixth grand slam title in all, crushing a hapless Amanda Anisimova 6-0, 6-0 in the final. It was the undoubted highlight of an up-and-down year for the Pole, who struggled on her best surface of clay but who will end 2025 ranked No 2, her fourth year in a row finishing inside the world’s top two. Continue reading...

Italians win singles matches against Busta and Munar Alcaraz and Sinner both absent for Davis Cup final Italy have been crowned Davis Cup champions for a third successive year, after victory over Spain. The two teams reached the final despite the absence of their respective star players Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz in Bologna this week. And it was Italy who retained their title after Matteo Berrettini and Flavio Cobolli won their singles matches on Sunday. Berrettini beat Pablo Carreño Busta 6-3, 6-4 in the opening contest and an entertaining tussle between Cobolli and Jaume Munar followed in which the Italian charged back to win 1-6, 7-6 (5), 7-5. Continue reading...

Flavio Cobolli and Matteo Berrettini lead Italy to a historic third straight Davis Cup title in Bologna.

Italy remains the king of the Davis Cup -- and didn't even need Jannik Sinner this time.

Matteo Berrettini puts two-time defending champions Italy on the brink of a third consecutive Davis Cup final with victory over Belgium's Raphael Collignon.