Jo-Wilfried Tsonga is now in doubt for the US Open. L’Equipe, France’s leading tennis magazine, recently spoke with Tsonga about his current knee injury. The injury was sustained in the quarterfinal loss to Andy Murray at Wimbledon.

Jelena Jankovic has retired injured from the Slovenia Open yesterday. Jankovic was cruising at 6-1, 2-1 against qualifier Anastasiya Yakimova then stepped awkwardly when chasing a ball on the baseline and twisted her ankle. Jankovic continued to play after getting medical help, but lost that set 6-3 and eventually retired after losing the first game of the third.

Frank Dancevic sustained an injury in the qualifying rounds of the Atlanta event this week when he crashed into the scoreboard. Dancevic was playing match point against Nick Lindahl when he crashed into the scoreboard.

On the back of making the Wimbledon final, Tomas Berdych has decided to take a little break and ruled himself out of the Czech Republic’s Davis Cup quarterfinal against Chile because of an abdominal muscle injury. “If I have a problem, it’s this muscle,” Berdych told Czech public radio on Sunday just hours after losing [...]

The big serving Croatian Ivo Karlovic has withdrawn from Wimbledon with a foot injury. Karlovic reached the quarterfinals last year, so he is going to lose a lot of ranking points. Im sure the points are the least of his worries, especially considering with the size of his serve and how good his volleys are, [...]

Elena Dementieva is out of Wimbledon. Dementieva suffered a calf injury in the second round of Roland Garros and hasnt recovered. The Russian was forced out of her semifinal against eventual winner Francesca Schiavone because of the injury, her first retirement in 43 major appearances. Last year Elena reached the semi-finals at Wimbledon, so with [...]

Fernando Gonzalez will miss Wimbledon 2010 due to a knee injury he sustrained during the European clay court season. Speaking on his official website, Gonzalez had the following to say to his fans. “The treatment I’m receiving makes me stop for a long time. If I come back for Davis Cup it would make the [...]

David Nalbandian is expected to be fit for Wimbledon. David has sets his sights on competing once again at The Championships starting on June 21. Nalbandian was forced to pull out of Roland Garros this year because of a hamstring injury. Nalbandian’s medical team has asked him to not accept an invitation to play the [...]

After retiring from the French Open Jo-Wilfried Tsonga will most probably miss the whole grass court season, including Wimbledon. The Frenchman underwent scans that confirmed a muscle lesion in his hip and he’ll probably have to rest for the next 10 days. Then he’ll have to undergo another checkup to see if he can play [...]

This week sees the return of former WTA number1 Dinara Safina to competitive tennis. Dinara retired from her 4th round match at the Australian Open, sighting a back injury that has been plaguing her since Cincinnati. “After that match, I had an MRI and I had two stress fractures on  L5S1 and a rupture on [...]

Former world number 1 Dinara Safina will not be returning to the WTA tour any time soon. Safina has been off the competitive circuit since the 2010 Australian Open. She had severely injured her back during the 2009 summer season, but had continued to play up through the Australian Open, when she was forced to [...]

Serena Williams has annonced that she will be returning to the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour after spending over two months on the sidelines. Williams has not competed since she won the Australian Open in January, 2010, her 12th Grand Slam title. She has accepted a wild card into the 2010 Internazionali BNL d’Italia in Rome, [...]

Maria Sharapova has withdrawn from the Family Circle Cup due to an elbow injury. This is a big blow for the Family Circle Cup who would have sold a lot more tickets if Sharapova had been playing. The Family Circle Cup is scheduled to begin later this week with a strong player field led by [...]

John Isner has pulled out of the French Open starting tomorrow cause of illness. Isner accepted a wildcard into the event by winning a qualifying tournament held by the U.S. Tennis association. The USTA has now returned the wildcard slot to the French tennis federation, which has since handed the wildcard to world number 310 [...]

There has been a lot of talk in the last few days about Maria Sharapova and her return to the tour. Sharapova played yesterday in her first match in over 8 months at the Warsaw Open in Poland. Maria played Tathiana Garbin and won the match 6-1 6-7 (6) 6-3. I must admit it is [...]

I can confirm that David Nalbandian will not play the French Open and will be undergoing hip surgery which will keep him out of minimum of four months. The 27-year-old Nalbandian’s last match was a 6-2 6-2 loss to Chile’s Paul Capdeville at last week’s Estoril Open in Portugal.

Serena Williams is back in the headlines again and for the wrong reasons. Serena has just pulled out of her match in Madrid after losing the first set to Francesca Schiavone 6-4. “I was just really hindered. My movement was hindered as a result of an injury I’ve been struggling with for some time,” Williams [...]

Rafael Nadal will miss Spain’s Davis Cup final against Argentina because of a knee injury. The top-ranked Nadal said Monday he was still struggling with tendinitis in his right knee following a week of treatment. “The knee said no,” the 22-year-old said. Spain team doctor Angel Ruiz-Cotorro said Nadal would need three to six weeks [...]

All players should use different shoes for different surfaces. The main 2 differences are hard courts and ‘slippery’ courts. (eg clay, dirt and synthetic grass) On the weekend I watched a young player slip over on Synthetic Grass during the warm up for his match. Synthetic Grass has a layer of sand over it making [...]