When you game plan for a match, it generally revolves around tactics. Hit a high percentage of first serves, go after forehands, or pick on an opponent’s weakness are all bread-and-butter strategies. Figuring out what’s working takes some analysis, and there’s not much downtime during a tennis match. That’s where

In tennis, players have up to 90 seconds between odd-numbered games, and two minutes between sets, to recompose and hydrate during what are called changeovers. But any competitor knows that there’s a lot more to a changeover than meets the eye. Just as players can use the 20 seconds between

Stefanos Tsitsipas has covered his game spread in every match so far at the National Bank Open in Toronto. The Greek, who turned 23 on Friday, beat Ugo Humbert, Karen Khachanov, and Casper Ruud all by a margin of seven total games. He’ll next face Reilly Opelka, who, if you

Three-time U.S. Open champion Kim Clijsters, who will contest her final tournament at Flushing Meadows, tells USOpen.org that the game is passing her 29-year-old body by. Clijsters has played sporadically this season due to injury. “(I am) too old to play the game that I want to play physically," she

"Serve + 1" needs to be in every player’s vocabulary, routine and strategy. It’s simple yet effective, and more importantly, maintains the server’s position as the aggressor. But at its core, "serve + 1" is all about three Ps: prepare, predict and plan. The server prepares where they plan to

Tennis players are eager to prove they’re capable of competing with the best of the best. We see it at every level of the game, from juniors battling it out at weekend tournaments, to adults in community leagues, to young guns on the pro tour eager to break into the

"Game respects game" is a typical saying in sports, when fellow athletes share their mutual respects, but in this case, "game changer respects game changer" is more fitting. Spurred on by the great Mary Carillo in the interview which you can watch above, Billie Jean King and Rod Laver reminisce

Who would Naomi Osaka go dancing with? This is one of the many questions the reigning US and Australian Open champion had to answer when playing a "Who would you..." game at the Mutua Madrid Open on Wednesday. Reading from cards, Osaka had to pick from several players including Garbiñe

NEW YORK (AP) -- Aside from one long, long game, Novak Djokovic kept things quick on a 90-degree afternoon at the U.S. Open on Friday. The defending champion at Flushing Meadows dropped a 24-point, 15-minute game early in the second set, a tiny blip along the way to wrapping up

Racquet: Wilson Pro Staff 97 v14 ($279) For more than 40 years, the Pro Staff has been a tour staple swung by a who’s who of Grand Slam champs and Hall of Famers. The racquet’s precision and dependable response are prized by skilled shot-makers like Dimitrov. This latest in the

From Mario Tennis to Virtua Tennis, a wide variety of video games over time have sought to satiate the sport's fans who double as joystick/controller enthusiasts. Now a new entry in that canon is at hand: AO International Tennis. The game is set to show off "the most comprehensive feature

The LX line—the L stands for Lite—rounds out Dunlop’s elements of the game series, joining the Control, Force, and Spin franchises. As the name indicates, they are lightweight frames with oversized heads for easy power and extreme forgiveness, intended for players with shorter and slower swings who want the racquet

Buying a new racquet is a significant investment of time and treasure. With no shortage of worthy options available, it can be difficult to know where to begin. That’s why it pays to narrow the list to models suitable to your station in the game. Whether beginner, advanced or somewhere

Greatness in tennis cuts across many generations, the sport’s history a pantheon of champions who each excelled and dominated the game in their own special ways. And so, there come those moments when it’s intriguing and even enchanting to travel back and forth across time and envision possibilities—compelling matches that

Marat Safin, who is now a member of the Russian Olympic Committee, will be at the Vancouver Games for a few days, reports Globesports.com.

Bill Lipton liked what he saw when he opened his New York Times one morning last fall. Lipton turned 50 in 2018, and he had recently picked up his racquet after a 33-year hiatus from tennis. Over those three decades, this former high-level ping-pong player, who describes himself as “tenacious”

Fluid, powerful, and accurate strokes are the combination of many factors. But it all starts with how you hold the racquet. No matter how much time you spend finding the perfect frame to beef up your game, the most important part of your racquet just might be your grip—not what

LONDON -- Diagnosed with what the tournament said was a viral illness, Serena Williams pulled out of her Wimbledon doubles match with sister Venus after only three games Tuesday. Serena, who lost in the third round of singles Saturday, looked out of sorts from the moment the pre-match warm-up began.

Maybe it’s just that tennis is such an intimate, up-close kind of game, but those who play it at a high level tend to make strong, satisfying, lasting impressions. Often, a pro’s style is reflected in his or her personality (or is the personality reflected in the style?). Perhaps I’ve

WATCH: Remember the life and legacy of Nick Bollettieri, one of the sport's greatest coaches and pioneer of tennis academies, after opening Bollettieri Tennis Academy in 1978.