Sloane Stephens will be defending her title at the U.S. Open but all eyes will be on Serena Williams over the coming two weeks as the six-times champion attempts to win her first Grand Slam title since becoming a mother.
'I wouldn't say my son deserved more money than my daughter because he's a man.'
Serena Williams must navigate a heavily American quarter of the draw including sister Venus to complete a calendar sweep of the four Grand Slams, while two sensational quarter-finals loom on the men's side after Thursday's U.S. Open draw.
Wozniacki battles past Kerber into Eastbourne final
The Beatles 'all you need is love' holds true for the US Open champion and World No 1 Serena Williams. Williams admits that having love in her life has been a key to her rousing success.
Top seed Serena Williams said her "psycho" side is under wraps after motoring into the third round of the French Open with a 6-1, 6-2 defeat of French wildcard Caroline Garcia on Wednesday.
Serena Williams has broken her silence on Caroline Wozniacki's parody of her, saying that she did not find the impersonation racist.
The Romanian broke Williams's serve in the first game but that was the only one she managed for the rest of the opening set as the American bulldozed her way through the set in 20 minutes, serving it out with an ace.
Nadal and Williams headline party for all ages at US Open
Swiatek downs Gauff to meet Sabalenka in Italian Open final
Serena Williams launched a charm offensive on Sunday as she sought to broker a truce with Maria Sharapova and calm the storm surrounding comments she made about a rape victim.
The United States survived a fright from little Latvia on Saturday before winning 3-2 in a Fed Cup qualifier as Serena Williams suffered her first career singles loss in the team event. Switzerland, Spain, Belgium, Slovakia, Germany, Russia and Belarus also moved through to the inaugural 12-nation showdown in Budapest.
Serena will be chasing her seventh grand slam title on Saturday against a 17-year-old who has taken her second Wimbledon by storm.
If Serena Williams wanted to sound like someone who did not really care whether she won another Wimbledon or not, telling the world she just wanted to have fun, nobody was fooled on Thursday.
PHOTOS from the Wimbledon Championships matches played at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, London, on Saturday
This will be her first appearance at the tournament since she was ousted in the second round in 2017.
Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic took the men's prize for the fourth time, having won seven titles this season and the year-end top ranking for the third time in four years, while Serena Williams won the award for the fifth time in a career that has brought her 18 Grand Slam singles titles -- the most recent at this year's US Open.
Nastase was also heard to call her and British No. 1 Johanna Konta "f****** b******" during the Davis Cup competition being held in Constanta, Romania.
The American ace beat Vera Zvonareva while US Open champion Kuznetsova accounted for Wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova in the semi-finals of the China Open.
It was third time lucky for American Serena Williams as she finally matched Steffi Graf's professional era record of 22 grand slam singles titles by beating Angelique Kerber to claim a seventh Wimbledon crown on Saturday.
Images from the French Open women's final plsyed at the Roland Garros on Saturday.
Serena Williams' behaviour in Saturday's US Open final divided the tennis world after she called the chair umpire a "liar" and a "thief" and said he treated her differently than male players during her loss to Naomi Osaka.
At the Madrid Open, Serena Williams became only the 10th woman to win 50 career titles. Bikash Mohapatra takes a look at players who preceded her at the elusive club.
Serena Williams' memory is not as powerful as her first serve these days, although with so many achievements to recall it would be churlish to hold that against the American great.
Known for her attention seeking clothes, Serena Williams is trying to bring pop culture to the tennis courts.
Serena Williams could wow the Wimbledon public next year by reviving her skin-tight, all-in-one catsuit in white.
The seventh seeded Russian beat the American ace in the quarter-finals of the Amelia Island championship.
The second seed beat Mary Pierce of France 6-3, 6-1 at the Amelia Island WTA championship in Florida.
World No 1 and top seed Serena Williams was knocked out of the Australian Open by Serbian Ana Ivanovic on Sunday.
Australian great Margaret Court won 24 grand slam singles titles, one ahead of American Williams, who confirmed she was pregnant on Wednesday and will sit out the rest of the season.
The first teenager to play in a US Open final since Serena in 2001 there was symmetry to the moment as Gauff rallied to beat the second seeded Belarusian 2-6, 6-3, 6-2 and end a six-year barren stretch for American tennis fans, who were finally able to celebrate a homegrown champion.
Serena Williams may have been second best at the French Open on Saturday but the American has moved ahead of fellow tennis player Maria Sharapova to top the women's earnings list in sports, according to Forbes Magazine. Williams ended the Russian's 11-year reign as the world number one women's money earner in sports by hauling in $28.9 million in combined prize money and off-field earnings over the past 12 months, the magazine said on Monday. Sharapova, who lost some sponsorship money after announcing she had tested positive for the recently banned substance meldonium at the Australian Open in January and is provisionally suspended, holds second spot at $21.9 million.
Jennifer Capriati stunned top seed Serena Williams 6-4, 6-4 in the semi-final of the Rome Masters.
I have to be two feet in tennis or two feet out.'
Serena Williams was once again on the stage but this time it was her own fashion show during New York Fashion Week.
