By Jackie, TW Social Director Hi, TWibe! The tennis season is officially underway; nothing quite like have three simultaneous streams going while also writing the Deuce Club to really get that sympathetic nervous system going! As is always the case, though, I wouldn't have it any other way. I'm hoping

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

Jeremy Chardy is just 21 years old, and as much as he makes you wish you were that age again, he simultaneously makes you glad you're not. The skinny (and we're talking Ivanisevic-grade beanpole) youth lit up the the first week of the French Open, but yesterday he lost a

After Rafael Nadal had made one of his most astonishing career comebacks from the brink to defeat Daniil Medvedev, 6-7 (3), 6-3, 7-6, in their round-robin clash at the ATP Finals in London, the Spaniard was typically candid and self-effacing in his post-match interview. Realizing he had escaped from the

WIMBLEDON, ENGLAND—“The thing is this surface, when you have an opponent that he decides to hit every ball ball very strong, you are in trouble.” These were Rafael Nadal’s first words in his press conference after his upset loss at the hands of Nick Kyrgios on Tuesday. They were very

The year’s second major, the French Open, begins Sunday. Who’s hot? Who’s not? This month’s Top 25 features players in both categories, with Novak Djokovic once again the star performer. 1. Novak Djokovic (Previous: 1) No one can stop Nole at present. Physically and mentally, he has much left in

One of the biggest surprises of the 2025 film awards season was seeing the way Challengers (2024)—a film starring Zendaya set on the lowest rungs of the professional tennis tour—was completely panned by the Academy of Motion Pictures. Despite all the buzz around its Golden Globes-winning techno soundtrack created by

[[ I asked a friend of mine who was in Chennai last week to write a little bit about his experience, to give us a sense of the atmosphere and people there. His report follows below. Vivek played competitive junior tennis but now plays just rec tennis, partly because his

Grigor Dimitrov watched as his opponent, Nick Kyrgios of Australia, dug himself out of a two-sets-to-love deficit. He listened as the crowd in Rod Laver Arena grew louder and rowdier every time their man won a point. And he groaned when, serving for the match at 5-3 in the fourth

Steve Tignor recently released High Strung: Bjorn Borg, John McEnroe, and the Untold Story of Tennis's Fiercest Rivalry, and Peter Bodo’s The Courts of Babylon, originally published in 1994, has now been re-released as an eBook. We thought it was a good time for both authors to ask each other

The night session is old hat to many Open fans. We’re all a little tired of listening to Ted Robinson tell us that “crazy things happen in New York late at night,” as if a bunch of tipsy yuppies were preparing to hurl garbage cans through storefronts in Queens. Still,

by Pete Bodo Howdy, everyone. I thought Andrew Burton's overflow post (the one right below this one) was truly amusing, many thanks both for jumping in to create the post, and also for you wit. This reminds me that with comments going through the roof and the Aussie Open still

* Petko by Pete Bodo MIAMI, Fla.—Near the end of Ana Ivanovic's press conference yesterday, someone asked her to talk about Andrea Petkovic, who is nominally a German, having spent almost her entire life there, but was born in Tuzla, Bosnia. "A lot of us don't know her well," the

MELBOURNE—Amnesia and memory. A pair of contradictory attributes, vying for cooperation within the minds of Simona Halep and Caroline Wozniacki, the two women who today advanced to this year’s Australian Open final. Or better yet, is the struggle between forgetting and remembering less about holding these two together, and more

Catch up with Fashion Week on Baseline: • The year of Tenniscore: How the 'Challengers' effect transformed tennis fashion in 2024 • From big bows to bold prints, who wore on-court fashion best in the 2024 tennis season? • How Taylor Swift, Maria Sharapova, Morgan Riddle and more aced courtside

There are certain moments when we expect tennis players to tighten up. Serving for a match is one; reaching a tiebreaker is another. What we don’t normally expect, especially when we’re watching the pros, is to see one of them become so nervous about winning a game that she struggles

While Roger Federer drew most of the headlines this past weekend for securing the 97th title of his illustrious career in Rotterdam, another admirable individual was busy winning his first tournament since Winston Salem in the summer of 2015. Out on Long Island at the New York Open, the industrious

After Dominic Thiem had somehow managed to escape from not only a two sets to love deficit but also recover from 3-5 down in the fifth to defeat Alexander Zverev in the US Open final, after he had overcome cramps, nagging doubts and and an inspired adversary, Thiem was dealing

Twenty years ago, a Czech left-hander of deep intensity and high ambitions capped his career by taking the Australian Open men’s title on the hard courts of Melbourne, obliterating fellow southpaw Marcelo Rios of Chile in straight sets. Petr Korda claimed that crown with breathtaking shot-making and a smart game

This was the wide-open Open. With Serena, Novak, Stan, Andy and Kei—all recent finalists at Flushing Meadows—watching from afar, we braced for the unexpected, and we got it. A pair of Grand Slam final rookies on the women’s side; a brand new pair of young guns on the men’s side;