John Isner rested his chin on clasped hands, the words coming slowly, the tears welling in his eyes, as he spoke during a ...

NEW YORK -- John Isner, the highest-ranked American man, is out of the U.S. Open. Mischa Zverev, the 23rd seed from Germany, ousted the No. 10 Isner 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 (5) to reach the fourth round. Zverev ...

NEW YORK — Two familiar names were bounced from the US Open and one of them is done forever with singles. John Isner, the hard-serving American, retired from singles tennis after losing Thursday ...

Despite the notion that tiebreakers are a crapshoot, luck wasn’t a part of John Isner’s 7-6 (7), 3-6, 7-6 (5) win over Novak Djokovic on St. Patrick’s Day. The towering American hit the serves he’s ...

Five years in, tournament evangelist John Isner says the Dallas Open is building something that looks a lot like ...

Hard-serving John Isner was broken a total of once through his first three French Open matches. His opponent Sunday, Tomas Berdych, needed all of one game Sunday to equal that total, breaking Isner at ...

Isner hit a backhand up the line Thursday to win the last of the match’s 980 points, and he beat Nicolas Mahut in the fifth set, 70-68.