WATCH: The IMG Future Stars Invitational Tournament aims to help the next stars of our sport.

(6) Tomas Berdych vs. (5) Rafael Nadal Head-to-head: Nadal leads 12-3 These two have a history, and that past has been about as comforting as kissing a cactus for Berdych. Nadal has used his heavy topspin, shifting angles, and superior accuracy on the run to deconstruct Big Berd, winning 12

INDIAN WELLS, CALIF.—It’s Tuesday, which we might call the midpoint in the action here. I can’t decide whether it feels like the tournament is flying by, or whether it’s been going on forever. Remember when Larry Ellison had the stars in construction hats, hitting balls at photographers? That was Friday,

Kei Nishikori may be on the slight side among today’s often towering tennis players—6’6” Marin Cilic, who beat Nishikori in the U.S. Open final, had him by a good eight inches—but he is, as the popular song by Alphaville goes, “Big in Japan.” Small wonder. Nishikori is a native of

Like all 12-year-olds, Jimmy Connors dreamed big. “My real goal in tennis,” the ambitious boy from Belleville, IL, told Dave Wohlfarth for the June 1965 issue of TENNIS Magazine, “is to play in England and to play on the Davis Cup team. I want to play for my country.” Unlike

LONDON (AP) Roger Federer weathered a barrage of big hitting by Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France to begin his title defense with a 6-2, 2-6, 6-4 win Sunday in the opening match of the ATP World Tour Finals. Federer came into the tournament on a 12-match winning streak following titles in

From career titles and winning streaks to ranking breakthroughs and in-match numbers, tennis is a stat-lover’s playground. And with so many big names achieving so many big things seemingly every week, many of the sport's most incredible stats are forgotten as time goes by—underrated, if you will. Since tour rankings

LONDON— Once upon a time, not very long ago, reaching the penultimate round at a major tennis tournament was not a particularly big deal for the estimable Novak Djokovic. This extraordinary athlete and prodigious tennis champion has secured 12 major titles across his sterling career. He won four Grand Slam

It’s a seasonal ritual as predictable as inflatable Santas or late night showings of Miracle on 34th Stree*t—the annual “best of/worst of” lists compiled by. . . well, pretty much by everyone, in and out of sports. In keeping with our own tradition here at TENNIS.com, I’ll be making my

“I have no words, to be honest,” Borna Coric said after becoming the lowest-ranked champion in Masters 1000 history on Sunday, capturing the title in Cincinnati ranked No. 152. And today, the former No. 12 explodes up the ATP rankings, rising 123 spots to No. 29, his first time in

LAUSANNE, Switzerland -- Serbian tennis player Viktor Troicki's ban for avoiding a blood doping test was reduced from 18 months to one year on Tuesday, meaning he cannot play in the Davis Cup final next week. The Court of Arbitration for Sport ordered him to serve a 12-month ban for

MELBOURNE—It’s hard to find a better example of how quickly the conversation around tennis can change than what has happened in the women’s game over the first 12 days of January. When the year began, lo those many dozens of hours ago, most writers and observers—or at least this writer

The 14th edition of the 2019 Tennis Channel/USTA College Tennis Top 25 Rankings were released on Wednesday, and there's a new entry in the men's rankings. This week on the men's side, USC jumped two spots from No. 10 to No. 8 after beating California. Rank (Last Week) – Points

WTA Luxembourg organizers indicated they were not pleased with some WTA requirements and protocols, which they said hampered the tournament's fan friendliness. "We will no longer organize a WTA tournament. That's a big change. But we no longer feel comfortable working with the WTA," Danielle Maas, the tournament director, told

TENNIS.com's Monday morning quarterback recaps last week's pro tennis action—and offers his reaction. Last Week's Tournaments

Last week I wrote an article in which I considered, at some length and in a rambling way, the significance of the ATP’s World Tour Finals. In other words: WTF is up with the WTF? Judging by the majority of the emails I received afterward, many readers thought that I

LONDON—Roger Federer or Rafael Nadal—and sometimes both—appeared in all 10 Wimbledon finals from 2003-12, combining to claim nine of those titles. Neither made it that far in 2013. Not even close. Federer lost his second match at the All England Club. Nadal exited in the first round, a year after

I’m calling it now: our truly, madly, deeply exhausting search for a Big Three successor is over. With his maiden Grand Slam victory at the US Open—and subsequent soccer video game-inspired celebration—Daniil Medvedev ascended above the cadre of Next Gen pretenders, and combined the best of his lofty predecessors, to

Reading between the lines: TENNIS.com's Monday morning quarterback recaps last week's pro tennis action—and offers his reaction. Last Week's Tournaments

On Tuesday night, Novak Djokovic was a guest on The Late Late Show with James Corden in Los Angeles. The 12-time Grand Slam champion played a game of target practice, naturally, with Corden dressed up as a ball with a water bottle on his head. “I have a big target,”