What will happen to tennis when Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal retire? Fans have been pondering that ominous question for nearly a decade. The sport will obviously lose two of its greatest champions; perhaps more significantly, it will also lose two of its finest sportsmen. Federer has won the ATP’s

In the wake of the news that this week will mark the first in ATP history that no players in the Top 10 possess a one-handed backhand, Tennis.com offers a look back at a 2023 series counting down the 20 most impressive one-handers, and how their combination of beauty and

Hyeon Chung, it seemed, had played his part in the script, and he had played it well. But now it was time for him to step aside and let the star take over the stage. In front of a fully packed in Rod Laver Arena—with the Rocket himself in attendance—Chung

As long as bushfires do not prevent play, the first major tournament of 2020 will be underway soon, and tennis fans will witness a spectacle in the sport unlike any other. Wimbledon has the most dignified and elegant setting of the four Grand Slam tournaments. The US Open exemplifies the

JmacHere's my latest No Mas column. The Deep Tennis concept: They ask me a question, generally about the good old days; I answer it to the best of my memory. Steve, “I was noticing at the U.S. Open that the challenge system has done away with any need to argue

Recently I wrote an article about what I’ve learned, and not been able to learn, from watching some of the top male players over the years. That education has mostly come through internalizing their strokes and movements and patterns of play, rather than consciously copying them. For some reason, telling

"That’s where both Rafa and myself said, ‘OK, enough of this already.’ Let’s get back to 100 percent, enjoy tennis, enjoy the practice. Not just practice, treatment, match, treatment. All the time all you’re doing is fighting the fire.” When Roger Federer said these words near the end of the

Throughout Women's History Month, TENNIS.com will be highlighting some of the most significant achievements and moments that make our sport what it is today. As Renée Richards walked through the winding, Tudor-lined lanes of Forest Hills, people from the neighborhood gathered around her to wish her luck. After seeing the

Note: This post has been simulcast over at Pete Bodo's blog. By this time at the Open I’m usually a little—OK, more than a little—burned out after two weeks in Queens. In the past, I’ve been tempted to phone in a post from the couch on Super Saturday. But that

Tennis-ball-rebound-1a Warning: This is a bit of a tearjerker. But it's been in me for a long time. Four years ago, while walking around the side courts at the French Open, I recognized a one-handed backhand. I didn’t recognize the player who was hitting it, just his stroke. A gray-haired

I’ve been hearing some bad news already regarding Wimbledon TV coverage back in the States. Taped Serena, commercials at 5-5 in a breaker, too much of Ana, the Game’s New Star. Would it make it worse if I spent a few minutes talking about what it’s like to watch tennis

NEW YORK—Victoria Azarenka had come a long way in Arthur Ashe Stadium on Sunday night. The Belarusian, as infamous among fans for her shriek as she is famous for her No. 1 ranking, had begun her final against Serena Williams as neither the favorite to win, nor the favorite in

Nineteen-seventy-four was a big year for tennis. In England, the country of its birth, the sport turned 100 years old. In the U.S., the country of its growth, it was blowing up all over the place. The summer of ’74 marked the dizzying early summit of the tennis boom (or

There are as many similarities as there are differences between Rafael Nadal and Björn Borg, the legend whose all-time record for French Open men’s singles titles the Spaniard is attempting to surpass. Last June, as Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer warmed up for the 2011 men's final on Court Philippe

• DulkoPennetta By Jackie Roe, TW Social Director Hey, everyone! The Deuce Club is back in business; Pete and I decided to skip the DC last Friday so as not to interfere with the U.S. Open coverage. Though many of you are probably in Davis Cup mode, today's post will

• Picby Pete Bodo* As you all know, today is International Women's Day. You did know that, didn't you? Well, either way you can just consider this post an effort, modest though it may be, to join in the worldwide celebration of what it means to be a woman. To

Given the abundance of talent that commands our interest at or near the top of the ATP, it’s easy to overlook just how loaded the tour’s Top 50 is these days. To that end, let’s take a look at 10 players who failed to make the cut for London (excluding

201206301724626423926-p2@stats.comby Pete Bodo **WIMBLEDON, England—The perverse part of me had hoped that at the stroke of 11 p.m. last night, a borough of Merton bureaucrat with a terribly British-sounding accent would come on the PA system and to declare that the battle between Andy Murray and Marcos Baghdatis—by that point

A hat tip to Jon Wertheim for pointing out the following situation to me, following that majestic Rome final in which Rafael Nadal bamboozled his arch-rival Roger Federer, and also tied Guillermo Vilas’ record, 53-match clay court streak: The draw for Hamburg Masters Series had Nadal slotted to play his

Bronwyn Greer was understandably dismayed when she learned that her ATP tour event—the Fayez Sarofim & Co. U.S. Men’s Clay Court Championship—had gone down to defeat this year against the dreaded coronavirus. Greer was looking forward to celebrating her fifth year as tournament director in Houston before it was canceled.