Success keeps coming for Novak Djokovic, who continues what has to be one of, if not the most drastic turn-around seasons in Open Era history.

Djokovic through the first half of the year didn’t reach a semifinal until Rome in May, and lost first round in Indian Wells and Miami, and prior to the quarterfinals at Monte Carlo, Barcelona and Madrid. After breaking through for his first title of the year …

Unknown teen Dayana Yastremska of the Ukraine came out of nowhere this week to win the Prudential Hong Kong Tennis Open on Sunday, as the 18-year-old recorded a 6-2, 6-1 victory over Wang Qiang of China for her first WTA title.

“Yesterday, I felt very confident that I could win the title, but in the morning, I woke up and I felt a bit too nervous,” Yastremska said. “I trusted myself …

France’s Caroline Garcia, in the second-to-last regular-season week of the year, won her first title of 2018 on Sunday, in the Tianjin Open final beating former No. 1 and top seed Karolina Pliskova 7-6(7), 6-3.

“The emotion and the feeling after the match point is something very special and very difficult to describe,” Garcia said afterwards. “That’s what you’re working on all year long to get, this trophy in your hand …

Linz remains magic for Camila Giorgi as the No. 5 seed and former finalist won her second career title, beating Russian qualifier Ekaterina Alexandrova 6-3, 6-1 for the Upper Austria Ladies Linz championship.

The Italian won her first career title at the Ricoh Open in ‘s-Hertogenbosch on grass in 2015.

After the first set went with serve through the first seven games, Giorgi lost only one game from that point on, beating …

Borna Coric advanced to the biggest final of his career eliminating defending champion Roger Federer 6-4, 6-4 in the Shanghai semifinals.

“It’s one of the best matches I have ever played. I was just feeling through the ball,” Coric said. “I think I served the best in my life, for sure. I was going for the angles. I was going for the body. Everything was going in. No, that’s much above …

On a day when all four quarterfinal matches were decided in straight sets, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic moved one step closer to a Sunday final showdown in Shanghai.

After two straight 3-set matches, the defending champion Federer needed only two sets today against Kei Nishikori with a 6-4, 7-6(4).

“It was a tough match. Obviously Kei hogs the baseline much more than Medvedev did or also what did. I think …

Roger Federer went the distance again, and like he did Wednesday, broke at 4-all in the third then closed out Roberto Bautista Agut 6-3, 2-6, 6-4 to reach the Shanghai quarterfinals.

“I’m actually quite happy,” said Federer. “I thought that Bautista really had to raise his level of play in that second set to stay with me. I mean, he really caught fire, I thought. I served, I think, 80% in …

It doesn’t sound like Alexander Zverev is a big fan of the new Davis Cup format, which features 16 teams playing a round-robin week-long competition in late November.

And Zverev says he doesn’t want to be playing tennis that late in the year, not even for Germany.

“I will not play Davis Cup in November,” Zverev said Tuesday in Shanghai.

“Because in November I do not want to play tennis anymore. I …

Roger Federer opened his Shanghai title defense with a tough 3-set 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 win over recent Tokyo champion Daniil Medvedev. Federer, who was playing in his first official tour match since the US Open, broke at 4-all in the third then served it out.

“In the third set I really started to figure it out, as well, how aggressive or how tactical I wanted to make the match,” said Federer. …

One of the “innovations” at this year’s ATP Milan event, ballboys will no longer be in possession of sweaty, gross player towels. Instead, players will have to pick them up themselves off a towel rack, it was announced back in May.

Obviously this only impacts the younger players, but what do the top veterans think about this? Both Kei Nishikori and Roger Federer don’t sound convinced it’s a good idea because …

With just a month or so left in the 2018 ATP season, Novak Djokovic is arguably the favorite to finish the year No. 1. That’s quite a leap for the Serb who was ranked as low as No. 22 just in June.. And should he win a fourth Shanghai title this week, Djokovic would be in a virtual tie with the idle Rafael Nadal in the 2018 Race, just 35 …

Before his win over Daniil Medvedev today, Roger Federer met the media Tuesday in Shanghai. The defending champion is playing his first official tour event in a month since a sweaty loss at the US Open to John Millman.

“I like this part of the season,” Federer said. “It’s always been a good season for me. Maybe conditions get faster, I’m not sure, or if there is energy left in …

Novak Djokovic opened his bid for a fourth Shanghai Masters title with a 6-3, 7-5 victory Tuesday over Jeremy Chardy.

The US Open champion has now won all 12 matches against the Frenchman, and has taken his last 14 matches and 23 of his last 24.

“I think I’m completely different player than I was in first, five, six months of the year,” Djokovic said of his 6-6 start to the year. …

The biggest men’s event in Asia kicked off this weekend in Shanghai, China, site of the Rolex Masters. Leading the way are former champions Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic who have combined to win the event five times.

Federer and Djokovic, who are No. 1 and 2 in the seedings, could only face off in the final, and the two could swap places in the rankings.

US Open finalist Juan Martin del …

Russian youngster Daniil Medvedev stunned Japanese favorite Kei Nishikori 6-2, 6-4 to capture his biggest career title in the Tokyo final on Sunday.

“I’m just really happy. I’ve been showing amazing tennis here. I’m happy that what I have been doing all season in practice, physical workouts, worked out here in Tokyo,” Medvedev said. “This is my biggest title, so I’m just really happy.”

Medvedev, who had to qualify just to get …