Alcaraz rose one spot, swapping places with Djokovic, a day after ending Daniil Medvedev's 19-match winning streak by beating him in straight sets in the final at Indian Wells.
Tiafoe hit 22 winners and had just nine unforced errors in his 6-4, 6-4 win against 2021 champion Cameron Norrie.
Novak Djokovic’s Australian Open championship returned him to a rather familiar spot on Monday: No. 1 in the ATP rankings.
Carlos Alcaraz defeated Daniil Medvedev 6-3, 6-2 on Sunday to win the BNP Paribas Open title and regain the world’s No. 1 ranking.
Russia remains excluded from many international sporting events, but that could soon change.
Djokovic's four-place rise from No. 5 to replace Carlos Alcaraz at No. 1 is the largest jump to the top spot in the 50-year history of the computerized rankings for men's tennis.
Elena Rybakina fired seven aces in routing top-ranked Iga Swiatek 6-2, 6-2 on Friday to advance to the BNP Paribas Open final.
For Sabalenka, things are different now. She is not stressed out about her serve. She is not as reliant on others to help her self-esteem, no longer employing a sports psychologist.
Belarusian fifth seed Aryna Sabalenka recorded her first Grand Slam singles title by fighting back to beat Elena Rybakina in the Australian Open final. In what...
The 24-year-old Sabalenka, who is from Belarus, was appearing in her first major final.
The 30-year-old Linette beat Karolina Pliskova 6-3, 7-5 on Wednesday, adding the former No. 1 to the list of top players she has beaten at Melbourne Park...
Fifth-seeded Aryna Sabalenka defeated Belinda Bencic 7-5, 6-2 on Monday to reach the quarterfinals of the Australian Open for the first time.
Andrey Rublev beat wild-card entry Dominic Thiem 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 on Tuesday to book his place in the second round of the Australian Open.
Djokovic worried organizers when he said after his semifinal in Adelaide against Daniil Medvedev that he had been troubled by a tight hamstring.
Sabalenka's last single title came in Madrid in May 2021 but went without a title in 2022 despite reaching three finals.
The combined ATP-WTA event is a warmup for this year's Australian Open.
The WTA Finals are returning to the United States for the first time since 2005 after the tour moved it out of China for the second year in a row.
Ons Jabeur and Iga Swiatek defeated Caroline Garcia (6-1, 6-3) and Aryna Sabalenka (3-6, 6-1, 6-4) in their respective semi-finals.
Frances Tiafoe managed the tricky task of following up the biggest win of his career, against Rafael Nadal in the fourth round, with a win over Andrey Rublev.
The other women's semifinal is No. 5 Ons Jabeur against No. 17 Caroline Garcia, who eliminated 18-year-old American Coco Gauff.
Iga Swiatek beat 2017 US Open winner Sloane Stephens 6-3, 6-2 on Thursday in the second round for her WTA Tour-leading 50th victory this season.
Petra Kvitova will take on Caroline Garcia in the women's singles final, while Stefanos Tsitsipas take on Borna Coric for the men's singles honours.
The Indo-Dutch pair of Rohan Bopanna and Matwe Middelkoop defeated Andrey Golubev and Fabrice Martin in straight sets to enter the next round in French Open...
No one will earn ranking points at Wimbledon 2022: Here is a look at how this unprecedented move came about and what it means:
The WTA and ATP announced their decisions on Friday, two days before the start of the French Open, and a little more than a month before Wimbledon.
