Tracy Austin

PALOS VERDES ESTATES — As members of the Corona del Mar High boys' tennis team finished off their nonleague match at Palos Verdes on Wednesday, they naturally were hungry. Palos Verdes parents were grilling burgers near the tennis court. Some of...

IRVINE — Lindsay Davenport got to Southern California less than five hours before Monday's Orange County Breakers season opener. The Breakers' marquee player was playing at Wimbledon the day before. She won the ladies' invitational doubles title...

Tatyana Ali appeared on "Sesame Street" when she was 6 and "Star Search" when she was 7, but nothing prepared her for the day when a school bus pulled up as she was walking down the street. She was 12, a newly minted star of "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air"...

TV SPORTS Men's College Basketball-Penn State at Ohio State, 5:30 p.m. (Big 10 Network); Villanova at Louisville, 6 p.m. (ESPN); West Virginia at St. John's, 6 p.m. (ESPNU); Missouri at Oklahoma State, 6:30 p.m. (ESPN2); Minnesota at Michigan State, 7:...

The first Grand Slam of the tennis calendar takes place at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia, as the world’s best tennis players head Down Under. On the men’s side, Novak Djokovic won last year’s Australian Open, then went on to win...

Verizon FiOS TV resumes its carriage of Santa Monica-based Tennis Channel. The Tennis Channel shares coverage of the Australian Open tennis tournament with ESPN....

That 12-day lag time notwithstanding, Mike Whan acknowledges it wasn't a tough call to welcome Lexi Thompson as the LPGA's youngest member in 44 years. The commissioner's pivotal decision actually had come in June, when Thompson was given the green light...

Bryan Brothers will offer tennis for charity this weekend....

PALOS VERDES ESTATES — As a former world No. 1 looked on Tuesday, the Corona del Mar and Palos Verdes High boys' tennis teams battled for No. 2. Two-time U.S. Open winner Tracy Austin has a son on the Palos Verdes team; Dylan plays doubles for PV....

Jeanne Austin Mother of tennis champion Tracy Austin Jeanne Austin, 84, the matriarch of a tennis playing family that produced four professional players, including two-time U.S. Open champion Tracy Austin, died Tuesday of heart failure at Torrance...