The Italian Open crowd has had plenty of local success to celebrate over the last week-and-a-half, with Jannik Sinner and ...

ROME (OSV News) — As the Catholic Church welcomed its 267th pope, Leo XIV — elected May 8 — attention quickly turned to the ...

Pope Leo XIV gave an initial blessing to the idea of the Vatican Tennis Invitational, wryly adding, “Just don’t bring [Jannik ...

ROME — Maybe it was the pope's blessing. Or maybe Jannik Sinner just likes playing against Casper Ruud.

This is what the seven days of papacy tell about the first American pope and how his predecessors spent their honeymoon in ...

By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Thursday, May 15, 2025 ...

Jannik Sinner has just returned from a 3-month suspension and is already blessed by God. At least, that's how it seems. One ...

Enter poor Casper Ruud, a perennial top-10 player who is excellent on clay. He was Sinner's quarterfinal opponent in Rome on ...

Pope Leo XIV speaks with Jannik Sinner, the No. 1 rated tennis player in the world, May 14, during a meeting at the Vatican.

Whatever it was, the top-ranked Sinner cranked up his level to near-perfection at times in a 6-0, 6-1 dismantling of Ruud in ...

Warriors and Golden Knights sent packing, nothing but bangers, NBA injuries, NFL schedule grid, the most famous athlete ...

Italian tennis star Jannik Sinner had an audience on Wednesday with the newly elected Pope Leo XIV, himself a keen tennis ...