Netherlands’ Jesper De Jong casts his shadow on the court as he returns the ball to Italy’s Jannik Sinner during their tennis ...

Jasmine Paolini became the first Italian woman in more than a decade to reach the final of her home Italian Open when she ...

Paolini saved three set points before gaining control in a 7-5, 6-1 win over American opponent Peyton Stearns on Thursday to ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV has made peace with Jannik Sinner. The top-ranked tennis player visited the new pope on ...

Champion Alexander Zverev and world number one Aryna Sabalenka fell by the wayside in the quarter-finals of the Italian Open ...

Leo is an avid tennis player and fan and had said earlier this week that he would be up for a charity match when it was ...

The world No. 1 was rusty on his first match back after three months away. His Italian Open draw means he cannot afford to be ...

Italy’s Jannik Sinner serves the ball to Netherlands’ Jesper De Jong during their tennis match at the Italian Open at the ...

Sinner is Italy's chosen one. At the Foro Italico in Rome, his comeback from an anti-doping ban overtakes all else in tennis.

The fourth seed Gauff outlasted eighth seed Qinwen Zheng in the Italian Open semifinal: 7-6 (3), 4-6, 7-6 (4). Gauff won both tiebreaks in the marathon match, which ran just over 3.5 hours.

In the semifinals, Sinner will play Tommy Paul, who beat Hubert Hurkacz 7-6 (4), 6-3 to become the fourth American in the Open Era to reach back-to-back semifinals in Rome after Eddie Dibbs (1978-79), ...