On Thursday at the All England Club, Anett Kontaveit swung her racquet for the last time on a singles court as a professional tennis player. Kontaveit, 27, announced last month that she would retire ...

Even close friend Ons Jabeur could not change Anett Kontaveit's mind about retirement as the Estonian played her final competitive tennis match at this year's Wimbledon Championships, bowing out in ...

Anett Kontaveit is the No. 2 tennis player in the world, according to the WTA rankings. The 26-year-old Estonian star is set to play Serena Williams in the second round of the US Open. Kontaveit spoke ...

Anett Kontaveit won the VTB Kremlin Cup in Moscow in thrilling fashion Sunday, defeating Ekaterina Alexandrova (Russia) in three close sets, 4:6, 6:4, 7:5, coming back from the brink of defeat in set ...

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FLASHBACK: Anett Kontaveit was forced to retire in the third set of her match against Shelby Rogers last month in Abu Dhabi. Fans of Anett Kontaveit got an injury update from the sidelined Estonian ...

Amidst her continued slump in the WTA rankings, Anett Kontaveit recently shocked her fans and the tennis world, saying that she is likely to never completely recover from her back injury. The former ...

After it was all over — after she’d won a thrilling second-round match, then did one of those iconic Serena twirls on the Arthur Ashe Stadium court before beaming as a tribute video from Oprah Winfrey ...

Anett Kontaveit may have closed the door on her WTA tennis career, but new doors are opening already, not all of them directly connected to tennis, according to WTA Insider. One of these is studying, ...

NEW YORK, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Anett Kontaveit said she expected the sold-out crowd at Arthur Ashe Stadium to throw their full support behind Serena Williams during her win on Wednesday, but the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Serena Williams can call it “evolving” or “retiring” or whatever she wants. And she can be coy about whether or not this U.S. Open will actually mark the end of her playing days. Those ...

No.4 seed Anett Kontaveit's seven-month hot streak continued with a 6-1, 6-4 defeat of No.15 seed Jelena Ostapenko in just 68 minutes in the Qatar TotalEnergies Open semifinals. The result puts ...