As the grass-court season kicks into high gear, the latest edition of Tennis Channel’s Stories of the Open Era looks back at one of the best grass-court players of our time, Billie Jean King. The American tennis legend won a staggering 39 Grand Slam trophies, including 20 Wimbledon titles. A

The weeks just after Roland Garros are some of the most understatedly enjoyable in tennis. With the end of spring, clay turns to grass, and over the course of 24 hours, the sport is transformed. Sliding is out, serving is in, and there’s a new, clipped, quiet cadence to the

Rafael Nadal made an already-legendary career even more so by winning his 11th French Open title on Sunday. Here are 17 stats to go along with the Spaniard’s 17th career Grand Slam title: 1. He’s the first man in tennis history to win the same Grand Slam tournament 11 times.

NEW YORK—Over the course of 11 days in late May and early June, the 30th annual NYJTL (New York Junior Tennis & Learning) Mayor's Cup—the largest interscholastic tennis competition in the United States—took place in the south Bronx. The tournament features students from all five boroughs of New York City,

In celebration of Roger Federer's 20th-anniversary year on tour, Möet & Chandon, one of his marquee sponsors, released a limited-edition bottle of bubbles. Indeed, he now has a major singles title to equal each of his years on the ATP World Tour. Just 20 such bottles exist, with proceeds benefiting

For the first time in eight years, zero woman have appeared on the Forbes 100 highest paid athletes of 2018. Retired boxer Floyd Mayweather comes it an No. 1, after a $275 million payday, followed by Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Conor McGregor and Neymar.

Who is Jurgen Zopp? The Estonian is a lucky loser at Roland Garros that has found himself in the third round. The 30-year-old was one of eight men benefitting from the new first-round retirement rule at Grand Slams, which fines players up to their first-round prize money amount ($49,240 in

It took more than three days to finish, but the first round of the French Open is finally complete. And a whole lot happened along the way, from the inspiring to the frustrating. Here's the best, and worst, so far. Serena Williams played her first Grand Slam match since giving

PARIS (AP) — The Latest from the French Open (all times local): 10:50 p.m. Serena Williams has opened an online shop for her fashion line. She announced the venture with a series of tweets that described the path she took from the original idea more than a decade ago to

UPDATE: Trungelliti won his first-round match. From the Associated Press: The road trip was worth it for Marco Trungelliti, the "lucky loser" who drove for about 9 hours with his brother, mother and grandmother from Barcelona to Paris in order to get into the French Open — and then won

The Open era began as a refuge from the chaos that swept Paris in May 1968. Fifty years later, we look back on those two tumultuous weeks. "We thought of Nero and his fiddle,” Rex Bellamy of the Times of London wrote in one of his first dispatches from Roland

LONDON (AP) — An Argentine player will be disciplined for failing to report to tennis authorities that he had been approached about fixing matches. Federico Coria is ranked 335th and is the younger brother of 2004 French Open finalist Guillermo Coria. The announcement Friday by the Tennis Integrity Unit comes

Over the course of their careers, the redoubtable Bryan brothers have touched so many milestones that it has become difficult to keep track of their achievements. The immensely popular American twins have done it all in doubles over an extraordinarily long span, setting records almost routinely along the way, building

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Droughts end, bikes get awarded, match points are fought off: What a week it was on the ATP and WTA tours. Doubles Take looks back and previews the action in the days ahead. STILL ROLLING IN STUTTGART At the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, Raquel Atawo defended her title, winning it

Prize money’s always nice. A new Porsche isn’t bad, either. A million bonus airline miles, though? That’s taking things to new heights. At the Porsche Grand Prix Tennis, six players competed in the Turkish Airlines Tiebreak on Monday. Utilizing a round-robin Tie Break Tens style format, the players were divided

So far the clay season has gone according to plan: i.e., Rafael Nadal has won his 11th title in Monte Carlo, without dropping a set. This week the women kick off their own spring swing through Europe in Stuttgart, while the top men go deeper into dirt in Barcelona. Here’s

Nineteen-sixty-eight was a year of revolution, when cities from Tokyo to Chicago to Paris to Prague were convulsed with protest. Things got so wild that even the staid old sport of tennis joined the fun in the sleepy seaside resort town of Bournemouth, England. That’s where, at 1:43 p.m. on

Martina Navratilova recently said that Venus Williams could play pro tennis until age 40, and that would make her compatriot, rival and friend Billie Jean King quite happy. That's because Venus and Serena Williams recently joined the Billie Jean King Leadership Initiative, in an announcement timed to 2018's Equal Pay

Each weekday, we'll preview one must-see match that you'll find on Tennis Channel Plus, the digital network for the devoted tennis fan. To subscribe to Tennis Channel Plus, go to BuyTCPlus.com After two months of hard-court play in North America, it can be jarring to watch the pros ply their