Tale of two coaches, two sisters for magnificent Muguruza

Seven-time Wimbledon champion Serena Williams has said that all women players 'love' Andy Murray as he has always 'spoken up for women's issues'. Defence champion Murray, whose title defence came to end at the hands of America's Sam Querrey in the ...

Venus has beaten Muguruza in three of their four meetings to date   IMAGE: Venus Williams has reached her second Grand Slam final this year. Photograph: Alastair Grant/Reuters Serena Williams is backing older sister Venus Williams to keep the Wimbledon title in the family for another year when the 37-year-old takes on Spain's Garbine Muguruza in the women's final on Saturday. Venus beat Johanna Konta on Thursday to reach her ninth Wimbledon final and Serena, who missed her title defence ...

Serena Williams, who missed the ongoing Wimbledon due to pregnancy, has said that she felt like she was there with her elder sister Venus Williams throughout her journey to her ninth finals of the grass-court tournament.

Williams won a cross-generation battle when she beat 20-year-old French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko 6-3 7-5 on Tuesday to reach her 10th semi-final in 20 attempts at the All England Club and next faces home favourite Johanna Konta.

With defending champion Serena Williams sidelined due to the impending birth of her first child, there is a power vacuum at the top of women's tennis and Karolina Pliskova could be poised to fill it. The post Wimbledon 2017: Karolina Pliskova crushes Evgeniya ...

John McEnroe questioned Serena Williams' ability compared with male players Credit: Ben Curtis /AP

I didn't realize it would create something like this," he told reporters on an ESPN conference call ahead of the July 3 start of the Wimbledon championships, the third grand slam event of the year.

IMAGE: Czech Republic's Petra Kvitova plays a backhand. Photograph: Clive Brunskill/Getty Images. Two-time winner Petra Kvitova and world number three Karolina Pliskova will be tough to beat at Wimbledon because the tournament's grass courts suit their games down to the ground, Serena Williams' coach Patrick Mouratoglou has said. With last year's champion Williams taking time out to give birth to her first child, Mouratoglou also said home hope Johanna Konta has a chance if she can handle the ...

$62,000 to train like Nadal, but are tennis academies worth it? IMAGE: Rafael Nadal trains children. Photograph: Jordan Mansfield/Getty Images for LTA. You now can train like Serena Williams or Rafael Nadal, but it will come at a cost. The Rafael Nadal Tennis Academy, which opened last autumn on the Spanish island of Mallorca, is charging kids 56,000 euros ($62,000) a year for tennis lessons and school. Patrick Mouratoglou's new academy on the French Riviera, where his protege Serena Williams ...