Venus Williams ousted defending champion Kiki Bertens at the Western and Southern Open in Cincinnati.

Bianca Andreescu became the first Canadian winner of the Rogers Cup in the Open era after Serena Williams was forced to retire during the early exchanges of the final in Toronto.

Roger Federer yesterday gained revenge over Rafael Nadal 11 years on to set up a Wimbledon final showdown with Novak Djokovic today.

One of my cardinal skin sins is buying a product simply because a celebrity has endorsed it.

The list sees 35 NBA players, 19 from the NFL and 15 from Major League Baseball

When the Irish senior women’s hockey team play it’s like watching a well choreographed, free-flowing dance.

In my days putting together TV sports news bulletins there was always a certain level of sportsperson who would go high in the running order no matter what they were talking about or getting up to.

Impossible Foods, which makes a meatless plant-based burger and is backed by celebrities like Serena Williams and Katy Perry, said it has raised $300m (€267m) in the latest round of funding ahead of a possible initial public offering.

Toxic masculinity. Nothing has divided public opinion quite like this topic in recent times.

Dr Dermot Nolan, GP and asthma specialist, and spokesperson for Live Every Breath Campaign

Pat Fitzpatrick and Catherine Shanahan discuss raising their daughters in the midst of a critical moment in feminism.

Maybe this is the kind of thing Serena Williams was getting at.

If you remember, it was Muhammad Ali started it, not Mick McCarthy or Ian Evans or even Tom Humphries’ interview.

Williams has been adopted, willingly, as the battle queen of modern feminism, a shining emblem of the global movement towards equality and to right the wrongs dealt by millennia of patriarchy, writes Tommy Martin

Every generation has a tiny coterie of sportsmen or women whose career is a persistent exercise in dominance.

Williams accused him of being a thief for taking a point away from her.

A tracker app is helping women in sports to open up about menstruation and to get better results, reveals Marjorie Brennan.

Serena Williams praised Nike for creating a “powerful statement” by making Colin Kaepernick the face of an advertising campaign.

Germany's Angelique Kerber has won the Wimbledon women's singles title.

Serena Williams and Angelique Kerber will meet in the Wimbledon final tomorrow in a rematch of the 2016 showpiece.

Novak Djokovic dropped his first set, and smashed his first racket, at this year’s French Open — but still battled through to the fourth round.

The 28th seed against a player ranked 451 in the world would not usually command a place on the prestigious Philippe-Chatrier Court at Roland Garros.

Serena Williams came from a set down to book her place in the third round of the French Open.

Serena Williams made an eye-catching return to the grand slam scene yesterday with victory over Kristyna Pliskova in the French Open first round.

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Irene Long looks at the many benefits that come with exercising during pregnancy.

Emotions spilled out of Roger Federer after he quelled Marin Cilic’s fightback to win his 20th grand slam title at the Australian Open.

The pre-prepared monologue followed his Australian Open quarter-final defeat.

The Australian Open always throws up plenty of intrigue as the new tennis season kicks into gear.

This week I’m sharing my take on the good, the bad and the ugly of 2017.

Cliodhna Sargent is set to return to action for the first time since January following the birth of her first son, Dylan, in August with a World Cup spot very much the long-term aim.

Among the famous faces who also posed were of course her daughter Blue Ivy and former Destiny's Child bandmates Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams.

THE relentless rolling on of time changes everything and nothing. 

Serena Williams has declared her love for Andy Murray and said all female athletes should back the British tennis player.

Venus Williams is through to a Wimbledon final for the first time since 2009, when she lost to sister Serena Williams.

Rafael Nadal crashed out of Wimbledon after a dramatic, marathon five-set defeat to Gilles Muller.

The recent furore caused by John McEnroe’s comments about Serena Williams was as much down to a slow news day as anything else, writes Dr Ed Coughlan.

I am mostly aware of John McEnroe as a meme, says Eimear Ryan. I don’t remember watching him play in his heyday; by the time I was conscious of Wimbledon it was Graf, Agassi, Sampras and Navratilova who ruled the courts. 

John McEnroe arrived in Wimbledon last night amused at the controversy he claims to have unwittingly caused with his comments that reigning women’s champion Serena Williams would not have a chance against any of the top 700 male players.

John McEnroe's belief that Serena Williams would be ranked as low as 700 in the world if she played on the men's tour has drawn short shrift from the 23-time women's singles grand slam champion.

Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal reached the French Open third round but Jo-Wilfried Tsonga’s late-night heroics proved in vain as he suffered his first opening-round loss at a grand slam in a decade.

World number one and top seed Angelique Kerber suffered an unexpected defeat to Estonian qualifier Anett Kontaveit in the second round of the Internazionali BNL d'Italia in Rome.