Sloane Stephens

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — In her first match at the Australian Open since a Williams sister was guaranteed to win the title, Venus Williams lost in the first round to Belinda Bencic and ensured it cannot happen in 2018. Venus lost last year’s final at Melbourne Park to younger sibling Serena, who clinched an Open […]

Since 1998, the US Open women’s single title went to a player not named Venus or Serena Williams. Sloane Stephens, who was unseeded in the tournament and ranked 934th just last month, took home the trophy in a rare All-American US Open women’s final match over Madison Keys. Stephens, 24, is a native of Florida, […]

The 24-year-old, who was ranked 957 in the world last month, won the first major title of her career after defeating Madison Keys 6-3, 6-0 in the final.

NEW YORK (AP) — :It’s an all-American final at the U.S. Open. Madison Keys dominated CoCo Vandeweghe 6-1, 6-2 to reach her first Grand Slam final. The No. 15 seed will face unseeded Sloane Stephens on Saturday in the first U.S. Open final between American players since Serena Williams beat Venus Williams in 2002. Keys […]

NEW YORK (AP) — :It’s an all-American final at the U.S. Open. Madison Keys dominated CoCo Vandeweghe 6-1, 6-2 to reach her first Grand Slam final. The No. 15 seed will face unseeded Sloane Stephens on Saturday in the first U.S. Open final between American players since Serena Williams beat Venus Williams in 2002. Keys […]

  Sloane Stephens reached her first Grand Slam semifinal since 2013 by beating 16th-seeded Anastasija Sevastova 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (4) at the U.S. Open. The 83rd-ranked Stephens has won 13 of her past 15 matches. She was one of four American women in the quarterfinals at Flushing Meadows, the most since five made it that […]

NEW YORK (AP) : Sloane Stephens knocked off 2014 Australian Open runner-up Dominika Cibulkova 6-2, 5-7, 6-3 to reach the third round of the U.S. Open. Stephens is a 24-year-old American who is ranked only 83rd after going 11 months without entering a tournament because of an injured left foot that required surgery. She returned […]

For the third match in a row at the French Open, Serena Williams dropped the opening set and had to hustle through two more to pull out a win. Her latest victim – fellow American Sloane Stephens. In a thrilling match between the last two American women in the draw, the No. 1-ranked and No. […]

Yikes, Sloane Stephens and Serena Williams have beef. After the rising tennis star totally upset her ‘mentor’ in the Australian Open quarterfinals, it turns out Serena hasn’t spoken to the young athlete. “She’s not said one word to me, not spoken to me, not said hi, not looked my way, not been in the same […]