World No. 2 Victoria Azarenka starred in her boyfriend Redfoo’s latest music video titled “Let’s Get Ridiculous”. The video features Azarenka begrudgingly playing the part of an airline stewardess.

“No, I didn’t want to be in that video, to be honest,” Azarenka admitted in Istanbul this week. “It’s just trying to sneak me into every scene there was, and I was supposed to be a mermaid, but I said, you are …

London chasers Tomas Berdych and Stanislas Wawrinka both crashed out of the Basel event in Tuesday in first round defeats.

Berdych, who stands sixth in the London Race (top nine with Murray out will qualify), remains in good shape after losing a matchpoint in a final set breaker loss to Ivo Karlovic.

But in the eighth spot is Wawrinka who really hurt his chances getting stunned by Edouard Roger-Vasselin 6-4, 6-3 on …

Top seeds and tournament favorites Serena Williams and Victoria Azarenka opened up with victories on Tuesday at the WTA Championships at Istanbul.

On the first day of round robin play, three-time champion Serena ousted Angelique Kerber 6-3, 6-1. “I feel really good actually,” said Serena who has now won her last 11 matches at the event. “I think I served really well. She’s beaten me before so I was really a …

The final stop on the women’s tour begins today with WTA Championships in Istanbul, Turkey. The year-ender follows the format of their big brother’s penultimate tournament with a field of eight players split into two groups of round-robin play.

Serena Williams is the overwhelming favorite. Victoria Azarenka, who’s beaten Serena twice this year on hardcourts, is the only real threat to the No. 1. Missing is Maria Sharapova who’s been out …

Gasquet Run at Year-end Champs Includes ATP Moscow Title

Frenchman Richard Gasquet improved his chances of sneaking in to one of the final ATP year-end championship spots on Sunday by claiming the title at the Kremlin Cup by Bank of Moscow, in the final defeating Kazak qualifier Mikhail Kukushkin 4-6, 6-4, 6-4.

The top-seeded Gasquet’s win has him overtaking Jo-Wilfried Tsonga to move to No. 9 in the Emirates ATP Race to …

The women’s WTA tour enters into it’s championship week featuring the Top 8-ranked players, while the men’s ATP tour rolls on with events at Valencia and Basel, then the Paris Masters next week, before they wrap up the season with their year-end championships.

Here’s a look at events this week:

TEB BNP PARIBAS WTA CHAMPIONSHIPS
Istanbul, Turkey; Surface: hard

Seeds: Serena Williams, Victoria Azarenka, Agnieszka Radwanska, Li Na, Sara Errani, Petra Kvitova, …

After all the accomplishments and records he’s has stored away in the “vault”, Roger Federer says he’s now playing on what he calls “bonus time”, and he’s loving it.

“And now you just have to prove yourself every single day and everything that comes is like a bonus,” Federer told CNN. “I’ve been on this bonus trip for a long, long time and playing this way has actually been much …

He’s not No. 1 anymore but Roger Federer is still the best pitchman in tennis. He’s funny too!

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Bulgarian press reported on a rumor that their top tennis player, Grigor Dimitov, and girlfriend Maria Sharapova might be expecting their first child in the near future.

According to Novini, Sharapova checked herself into a LA maternity center last month. The Russian then made a follow-up appointment for a month later.

At this time there’s little to indicate this is nothing more than a rumor.

Sharapova has not played since withdrawing from …

Rafael Nadal officially withdrew from Monday’s indoor event in Basel, Switzerland. After a long season and recent Asian stretch during which Rafa reached the Beijing final and Shanghai semis, Nadal posted on Facebook that his body needs a rest.

“Hi all, sorry to announce that I won’t travel to Basel in Switzerland but after very exhausting weeks I have to regroup my fitness and my body,” he wrote. “I will do …

The Abierto de Tenis in Acapulco confirmed via twitter this morning that Wimbledon champion Andy Murray has entered the tournament. Murray will be joined on the hardcourts by David Ferrer when the event runs from February 24-March 2, 2014.

Es oficial; @andy_murray campeón de #wimbledon 2013 y @DavidFerrer87 estarán presentes en el #amt2014

— Abierto de Tenis (@AbiertoTelcel) October 17, 2013

Murray has never …

Andy Murray had an eventful Thursday. On the day Murray was scheduled to go to Buckingham Palace where he was to be awarded the OBE (Order of the British Empire), he actually drew a random drug test in the morning delaying his departure for the big ceremony!

In the middle of a drug test hahaha I'm goin to be late!!!

— Andy Murray (@andy_murray) October 17, 2013

“They …

It’s an important time for Swedish tennis with the Stockholm Open being played this week. The focus of the event is the return of former Top 10 Joachim Johanssen who is playing his first ATP tournament since 2009.

However not entered again in the tournament is two-time French Open finalist Robin Soderling. The top Swede of this generation hasn’t played a match since his Bastad title in July 2011. Fighting …

Roger Federer is back in Switzerland where former No. 1 took some time to visit some children for the “Winterhilfe” charity.

Federer met with 22 children in the LINDT Chocolateria in Kilchberg near Zurich where they turned into Mini Master Chocolatiers and created their own chocolates.

After a disappointing loss a week ago in Shanghai, Federer will be back on the courts next week in Basel.

Federer …

It was a tough defeat for Juan Martin del Potro after losing yesterday in a final set breaker to Novak Djokovic in the Shanghai Rolex Masters final, but the Argentine confidently says his playing better now than when he stunned Roger Federer to win the 2009 US Open.

“I think I’m playing even better than many years ago,” del Potro said. “I got good things on my career this year. I …