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Battle-hardened Isner shows way for young Americans If young Americans like Ryan Harrison and Jack Sock are to keep climbing the rankings they will need plenty of the staying power compatriot John Isner demonstrated once again on Friday. The 28-year-old Isner, who won the longest tennis match...

Wiggins ruled out Sir Bradley Wiggins has been ruled out of the Tour de France due to a knee injury. Wiggins, who last year became the first Briton to win the Tour, withdrew from the Giro d’Italia due to a chest infection and then an inflammation in his left knee prevented him from training...

Serena talks the talk, but not about tennis Ask Serena Williams about her dog, her stick-men self portraits or the quirky names she gives her multiple personalities and she will happily chew your ear off - mention her tennis and words are few and far between. We learned on Friday that her dog...

Furlan takes Tour of Estonia stage two Angelo Furlan won stage two of the Tour of Estonia afer a sprint finish in Tartu. Veteran Christina Watches-Onfone rider Furlan, from Italy, came in just ahead of Linus Dahlberg (People4You-Unaas) in a time of 4:55.53. Konrad Dabkowski (BDC-Marcpol) was...

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Order of play at Roland Garros: Friday 31 May The full schedule for the fifth day at Roland Garros, with current champions Rafa Nadal and Maria Sharapova on court. The weather gods seem to be conspiring against Nadal's hopes of winning a record-breaking eighth French Open title. Thursday's...

Djokovic destroys Pella Novak Djokovic's French Open credentials were given the lightest of examinations in a 6-2 6-0 6-2 second-round win over Argentina's Guido Pella on Thursday. The world number one had the stronger weapons and pushed his opponent on to the back foot with his superior...

Joeaar takes overall lead at Tour of Estonia Home hope Gert Joeaar assumed the overall lead at the Tour of Estonia after winning an evening time trial in Tallinn. The Estonian stopped the clock at 4m31secs on the 3-kilometre second stage of the race, one second ahead of Swede Fredrik...

Mattek-Sands lets her racket do the talking Better known for her outrageous outfits, American Bethanie Mattek-Sands says she is finally letting her racket do the talking after upsetting former French Open champion Li Na on Thursday. Mattek-Sands' off-beat on-court costumes, including jackets...

Krasnov sprints to stage one win at Tour of Estonia Leonid Krasnov beat Konrad Dabrowski to the line in a sprint finish to take the first stage of the Tour of Estonia. Linus Dahlberg (People4you) was the third man on the podium after the 125km opener in Viimsi. Krasnov said of the win: “The...

Azarenka revels on shifting sands in Paris Power merchants often find their wheels slipping on clay, preferring the solid feel of hard courts, yet Victoria Azarenka is revelling in getting down and dirty on the red dust as she targets a maiden French Open crown. The former world number one and...

Manning looking forward to Valencia British Cycling's men's track endurance coach Paul Manning admits he is intrigued to see how Laura Trott, Ed Clancy, Dani King and Jon Dibben fare at this weekend's GP Prueba in Valencia. Trott, Clancy, King and Dibben will begin the qualifying process to...

Improving Jankovic moves through in Paris Former world number one Jelena Jankovic moved into the third round of the French Open with a straight-sets win over Garbine Muguruza. It is easy to forget Jankovic ended 2008 as the top player in the world, with a first Grand Slam title seemingly not...

Order of play at Roland Garros: Thursday 30 May The full schedule for the fourth day at Roland Garros, with current champions Maria Sharapova and Rafa Nadal on court. Play begins on all courts at 10am BST Court Philippe Chatrier Women's Singles - 2nd Round Kristina Mladenovic (FRA) vs...

Federer crushes Devvarman to progress A quintet of Frenchmen led a home procession at Roland Garros on Wednesday but Roger Federer still threatens to rain on their parade after sauntering into the third round of the French Open. On so-called ********'s Day at the claycourt slam it was ***'s...

Nibali to compete in Poland Vincenzo Nibali will race in the Tour of Poland this summer. Team Astana has officially announced that the Giro d'Italia winner will line up in the race from July 27 to August 3. For the first time in its 70-year history, the race will start in Italy with an opening...

Serena and Azarenka through, Wozniacki out World number one Serena Williams motored into the third round of the French Open with a 6-1 6-2 trouncing of French wildcard Caroline Garcia on Wednesday. Garcia, 19, gave Maria Sharapova a run for her money on her previous appearance on centre court...

Clancy takes another victory in Torquay Double Olympic champion Ed Clancy continued his recent run of form with a second consecutive victory at the Tour Series, the city centre cycling series, in Torquay. Dean Downing hit out for the line with 250 metres to go but Clancy pegged him back to...

British hopes end as Watson loses at Roland Garros British interest in the French Open ended when Heather Watson went down in three sets to Switzerland's Stephanie Voegele. The British number two and world number 48, in her first match since March after suffering from glandular fever, lost 4-6...

Rezai keeps it in the ****** after all A troubled relationship with her ****** led her to take charge of her own tennis career two years ago but Aravane Rezai is back with her ***, preferring to keep things in the ******, as others have done before her. The French player fell out with ******...

McQuaid refutes criticism of UCI in Armstrong affair The International Cycling Union was fault-free in its handling of the Lance Armstrong doping affair that severely tarnished the sport's reputation and triggered harsh criticism of the federation, president Pat McQuaid said. Speaking at an...

Pfizenmaier ready for ****** Act 2 After beating Urszula Radwanska at the French Open on Wednesday, Dinah Pfizenmaier is likely to find her third-round opponent is extremely motivated. Next up at Roland Garros for the German qualifier is Radwanska's elder ****** and last year's Wimbledon...

Hoy: Olympic glory price of Scottish independence Chris Hoy has warned Scottish athletes that they might have to kiss their Olympic dreams goodbye if Scotland breaks away from the United Kingdom in next year's referendum. The six-times Olympic gold medallist warned his fellow Scots that a...

Order of play at Roland Garros: Wednesday 29 May The full schedule for the fourth day at Roland Garros, with former champions Roger Federer and Serena Williams in action. Play begins on all courts at 10am BST Court Philippe Chatrier Women's Singles - 1st Round Elena Vesnina (RUS) vs...

Haas and Sock to meet in round two clash of the generations While evergreen Tommy Haas was striking another blow for the over-30s on Tuesday, a few courts away at the French Open American Jack Sock, 15 years his junior, was crushing a seasoned Spanish professional with a display of pure...

Baltacha comprehensively beaten at Roland Garros Elena Baltacha became the second Brit to crash out of the French Open in straight sets when she was beaten 6-3 6-0 by New Zealand’s Marina Erakovic. Baltacha, who is still on the comeback trail after more than six months out injured, made a...

Djokovic too strong for Goffin, Tomic out Novak Djokovic moved into the second round of the French Open with a 7-6(5) 6-4 7-5 win over Belgium's David Goffin. There was a familiarity about the occasion as Paris's unseasonable downpours kept Djokovic waiting to make his first return to Philippe...

Dimitrov ready to emerge into limelight Bulgaria's Grigor Dimitrov has come through a tough training programme in the gloom of a Swedish December and looks ready to realise his enormous potential and step into the limelight. The 22-year-old, dubbed "Baby Federer", is the latest flame of Maria...

Nike to stop producing Livestrong products Nike have further distanced themselves from disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong by discontinuing their Livestrong range of products. Last October, the American sportswear giant dumped Armstrong just before the American admitted to doping. Initially they...

US appeals court sides with Comcast A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that Comcast Corp. did not discriminate against the Tennis Channel by placing it in a different cable television subscription tier than its own sports networks. The unanimous ruling from the US Court of Appeals for...

Stosur powers into second round, Bartoli in three-hour victory Ninth seed Sam Stosur took advantage of a brief break in the rain to reach the second round of the French Open with a 6-0 6-2 win over Japanese veteran Kimiko Date-Krumm at Roland Garros. With rain delaying the start of play by two...

Dixon: Gallagher form to benefit Last British Cycling coach Phil Dixon believes Kenta Gallagher's exploits at the mountain bike World Cup in Nove Mesto can be to the benefit of London 2012 Olympian Annie Last. Last became the first British woman to start an Olympic mountain bike race for 12...

'Mussell' Russell still loving the old routine For Michael Russell retiring early from a Grand Slam was a familiar routine. The Houston-based 35-year-old had just been ****** to retire from his first-round match at Roland Garros with a hamstring injury and was heading back to his hotel to...

Superstitious Djokovic hopes to avoid Paris mishap A day after Rafa Nadal suffered a first-round scare at the French Open, world number one Novak Djokovic will look to avoid any mishap as he starts his Roland Garros campaign against Belgium's David Goffin. The Serbian top seed will be second...

Nadal narrowly survives bad day at the office Daniel Brands ensured it was no regular Monday at the office for Rafa Nadal when the Spaniard came desperately close to being shown the door after walking on to Chatrier Court to begin his hunt for an eighth French Open title. Nadal reached the...

Nadal pushed hard in Roland Garros opener Rafa Nadal was ****** to dig deep into his near bottomless resolve to salvage a 4-6 7-6 6-4 6-3 first-round win over Germany's Daniel Brands on Monday that had threatened to turn nasty for the seven-times French Open champion. The Spaniard who has lost...

Sharapova starts defence with easy win Maria Sharapova was not distracted by a late court switch as she started her French Open title defence with a ruthless 6-2 6-1 dismissal of Taipei's Hsieh Su-Wei in the first round on Monday. With the men's encounter between Frenchman Gael Monfils and...

Australian Kyrgios tames nerves to claim Stepanek scalp Too young to share a locker room with the established pros, Australian teenager Nick Kyrgios served a series of bullets from his sizeable frame to beat tour stalwart Radek Stepanek at the French Open on Monday. Kyrgios, only 18 years old...

Brands match had me in a spin, says Nadal It is rare that Rafa Nadal steps off court at the French Open and talks about being made to "suffer" at the hands of an opponent. Yet such was the impact of Daniel Brands's free-swinging display in their first-round match on Monday that the seven-times...

Nadal survives bad day at office All seemed as it should be when Rafa Nadal walked on to Chatrier Court to begin his bid for an eighth French Open title but Daniel Brands ensured it was no regular Monday at the office as the holder survived a big scare. Nadal, as expected, took his place in...

Wozniacki issues timely reminder to young guns Apart from winning a grand slam title Caroline Wozniacki has been there, done it and bought the T-shirt - and she's still only 22. The Dane, who not long ago was world number one and the face of the WTA Tour, has not exactly disappeared off the...

Robson dumped out by Wozniacki in Paris Tenth seed Caroline Wozniacki ended Laura Robson's French Open challenge with a swift 6-3 6-2 victory in round one. Former world number one Wozniacki, who came into the tournament on the back of a poor run on clay this season, looked like a possible...

Venus: 'It's painful to serve' Venus Williams blamed injury problems for her poor service as she crashed out of the French Open in round one. The 32-year-old lost a tight contest to Urszula Radwanska 6-7 7-6 4-6 on the opening day of the tournament in just over three hours. Speaking after the...

Nadal, Sharapova and French men top Monday's Paris bill A day after former champions Roger Federer and Serena Williams eased into the second round with the minimum of fuss, it will be the turn of title holders Rafael Nadal and Maria Sharapova to grace the French Open with their presence on...

Serena smashes Tatishvili, Petrova stunned by Puig Top seed Serena Williams beat Anna Tatishvili 6-0 6-1 on Sunday to emphatically book her place in the second round of the French Open and avoid last year's embarrassment of an opening-round exit. The American, whose only singles title at...

Simon survives dogfight with old warrior Hewitt Gilles Simon became the first Frenchman into the second round at Roland Garros but the 15th seed scraped through the hard way after surrendering the opening two sets to Australian former world number one Lleyton Hewitt on Sunday. Home favourite...

Federer enjoys Sunday stroll Roger Federer cruised to the simplest of wins while Gilles Simon won an epic on the opening day at Roland Garros. It was business as usual for grand slam veteran Federer as he made light work of Spanish debutant Pablo Carreno-Busta in the first round, starting his...

Ivanovic struggles past Martic to reach Paris round two Former champion Ana Ivanovic of Serbia survived a second-set collapse to beat Croatian Petra Martic 6-1 3-6 6-3 and reach the second round of the French Open on Sunday. Serbian 14th seed Ivanovic, who lifted the Suzanne Lenglen Cup in...