Quick fadeaway jumpers, running through hoops and swinging away at fastballs, Ahlilah Longmire spent much of her childhood looking up to her brothers and following in their footsteps. Longmire was fueled by her competitive nature to keep up with them in just about every sport under the sun. It doesn't

V By Pete Bodo For long, long stretches of their two-hour and 56 minute encounter under the translucent skin (roof) above Centre Court, five-time Wimbledon champ Venus Williams probably couldn't tell which Kimiko Date Krumm she was up against. Was it the 40-year old, 5' 4" sprite, that Asian smiley-face

The way she tells it, Lindsay Davenport wasn't exactly sobbing on Sunday as she said good-bye to her husband, Jon Leach, and their son, Jagger, at the airport in Memphis. But it was touch-and-go for a few moment there. After all, the 48-plus hour span (it's almost over now, as

*51968183 by Pete Bodo As anyone on the planet who's even remotely interested in tennis knows, Marat Safin is now officially retired from tennis. It's the last we'll see of him. I'm not sure I'd take that one to the bank. More than one tennis player has left the game

88774856 by Pete Bodo As you read this, Devin Britton is somewhere in Spain (actually, he's at the Barcelona Total Tennis academy, training for a few weeks before he dips his foot into the competitive waters at a few local Futures events. This is a somewhat bold and counter-intuitive move

1245345 by Pete Bodo Howdy. I just wrote a post for ESPN on the Indianapolis Tennis Championships, and the way the event has lost its way, thanks largely to the fluctuations of the tennis calendar and the turning of the tennis world - code for the decline of U.S. tennis.

• Picby Pete Bodo* Yesterday we looked at some of the men who will embark on their quest for Olympic gold with the right to be confident—or with legitimate fears based on recent or long-term history. Today, we'll look at who's hot, and who's not, on the women's side. One

Picby Pete Bodo With just two days of play completed, you might say there's "insufficient data" for making sweeping generalizations about the Australian Open, so of course I'm going to make a sweeping generalization. The tournament has gotten off to a very quiet start, but in a good way. All

by Pete Bodo Mornin'. I guess people are so hungry for a Serena Williams vs. Maria Sharapova match that even the news stories are geared toward how this or that result might advance or damage the chances that we'll see that quarterfinal battle at Stanford between the two stars. In

I suppose this post should be about the Serena Williams-Justine Henin match, but a funny thing happened to me on the way to Armageddon, Part 3 (which was, from what I could tell, played under the influence of Prozac, or as Henin would more charitably describe it, "serenity"). I fell

Timf by Pete Bodo Yesterday, Roger Federer lost a match he should have won. He was up a set and a break, serving at 4-3, against Richard Gasquet, who's not exactly known as one of the mental giants of the contemporary game. Federer ended up losing in three; the final

I am well aware that these days, most of my opponents are young enough to be my daughters. It’s crazy. But once I get onto the court for a match, it never crosses my mind. After all, my opponents are my peers, my competitors. When I first came back to

When main-draw competition commences next week at the US Open, the leading players will have their last chance of the season to win one of the sport’s premier prizes. But for others in the trade, the fortnight in New York will provide a different kind of opportunity. Ernesto Escobedo is

Tennis players of a certain age might remember hearing tall tales about the practice habits of legendary grinders like Bjorn Borg and Mary Joe Fernandez. “I heard Borg spends one week hitting crosscourt, and the next week hitting down the line,” or “Mary Joe has to make a thousand shots

No Limit NYC: Shots With Rublev, Cooking With Kyrgios & Osaka

With the year's first Grand Slam already well underway, the opening days of the Australian Open have doubled as a tennis fashion showcase. New collections from major tennis labels like Nike and Adidas have been turning heads on the likes of Aryna Sabalenka and Stefanos Tsitsipas, while a few custom

As a highly intriguing and already unprecedented tennis year gets underway, our editorial team gathered—virtually, of course—to discuss and compile thoughts on a variety of topics. Here, we bring you the first edition of “The TENNIS.com Round Robin.” David Kane: The circadian rhythm of the tennis schedule is something on

On Friday, February 1, the Connecticut Open officially sold its sanction to APG, which will now hold the Premier tournament in Zhengzhou City, China from September 9 to 15. The event had previously been held in New Haven for 21 years. Tournament director Anne Worcester had been looking for a

2020 Roland Garros previews: Expert Picks | Men's Preview | Women's Preview | Top 5 First-Rounders | Men's Draw | Women's Draw | Quarter-by-quarter analysis | Make Your Picks Will Rafael Nadal equal Roger Federer’s men's record of 20 major titles by lifting a 13th Coupe des Mousquetaires? Will Novak

Looking back across the last bunch of seasons, no one in American tennis among the men has made more inroads than Tommy Paul. At the end of 2018, he stood at No. 201 in the ATP Rankings. A year later, he advanced to No. 90. He concluded a disrupted 2020