Mihaela Buzarnescu and Victoria Azarenka are the lone former champions in San Jose.

BFFs Serena Williams and Caroline Wozniacki both left Rome with injuries Tuesday.

The Williams sisters continue to be the story at Indian Wells.

Two-time defending champion Lesia Tsurenko skipped the Acapulco event, but 2016 winner Sloane Stephens did not.

Naomi Osaka and Petra Kvitova will meet for the Australian Open final on Saturday.

A new women’s Australian Open champion will be crowned on Saturday in Melbourne.

A year ago, Danielle Collins was playing in a challenger event in Newport Beach. Now…

Serena Williams beat World No. 1 Simona Halep at the Australian Open Monday.

More upsets on the women’s side as Angelique Kerber fell.

The three former champions in the women’s draw all cruised in their Rod Laver openers on Monday in Melbourne.

Former No. 1s Venus Williams and Victoria Azarenka both were eliminated Friday in San Jose.

Unseeded floaters to watch are the former No. 1 Azarenka (starting vs. Aleksandra Krunic then (7) Safarova), the former No. 2 Kuznetsova (vs. (3) Sevastova) and the former US Open winner Stosur (vs. Marketa Vondrousova then (5) Suarez Navarro)…

(2) Gavrilov starts against American Jennifer Brady and is then looking at the veteran Stosur in the second round, which would be a rematch of last year’s final…

“I obviously have an incredible amount of respect for Venus, but you kind of have to take the name out of it and just focus on the tennis part and play one point at a time and use your tactics that you come up with your coaches,” Collins told the media.

“When you play a player like Angie…you have to execute your game well,” said Stephens, who hit 11 winners in the 23-minute first set, and on Monday will debut in the Top 10 for the first time on the WTA rankings. “And then you have to make sure that when you are executing your game you stick with it. Like a lot of times you can venture off and start, you know, doing other things.”