Freelance writer Wendy M. Grossman is blogging from the Eastbourne International this week. Here's her third dispatch: Today an extra and violent player arrived, more or less on schedule: Eastbourne's famous wind. The other side of the Atlantic is a couple of blocks from the site, and today the tournament

Serena Williams leads the looks this week after venturing to New York for a segment on the TODAY Show. 1 Serena Williams

Lots of good action, lots of good talk. Please continue to enjoy today's tennis, and gather here for RG enjoyment.

Frances Tiafoe is giving back to the tennis center that raised him. This week, the 25-year-old American was back home in College Park, Md. to present a $50,000 check to the Junior Tennis Champions' Center in College Park, Md. to support the organization's tennis programming. The sum comes from Tiafoe's

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — Petra Kvitova advanced to the quarterfinals at the St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy by beating Alison van Uytvanck 7-6 (1), 1-6, 6-2 on Thursday. Kvitova saved a set point at 5-4 in the first set and then recovered after being broken in the first game of

Serving at 4-4 in the first set against Iga Swiatek in Rome on Thursday, Coco Gauff looked and sounded confident. She reached 40-0 with an ace that touched down on the T, and followed it up with a forceful “Come on!” She seemed sure to hold and go up 5-4.

INDIAN WELLS, Calif.—It is hard to imagine a sharper contrast between the faces of two players walking into a press room than what reporters saw today from Elena Dementieva and Petra Cetkovska. The third-seeded Russian, who was upset by Cetkovska in three sets today, didn't want to be there—at all—and

WATCH: In three sets, Medvedev tops Sinner for Rotterdam championship

Despite the utter domination imposed on the ATP by the Big Four and way Serena Williams has been riding roughshod over the WTA, recent times have been rich in producing interesting and often unexpected trends. These include the embrace of polyester strings that, because of their lack of elasticity, were

Here is your hub for today's Australian Open discussion: Chat with Peter Bodo at 1 pm EST, and talk about the matches as they happen in the comments below.

Good morning. As usual, please use this space for discussing today's tennis-related events. As this week's clay events roll on, today Richard Gasquet and Agustin Calleri have booked semifinal places in Stuttgart. Fernando Verdasco and Tomas Berdych have done the same in Bastad, as has Alize Cornet in Budapest, along

David Ferrer had a lot to contend with today, up against Rafael Nadal in the French Open men's singles final at Roland Garros. Nadal had won the event seven times, ultimately taking his record eighth title today, and Ferrer was up against a wall from the get-go. Unfortunately he also

WATCH: Serena fans pay tribute to the 23-time Grand Slam champion during the US Open.

Nick Bollettieri’s breakdown of a coach and tennis teacher: Coach A coach is truly a jack of all trades that has knowledge of the: A coach today may not be an expert of the above categories and many times a coach can and will have members of his team that

90197582 Howdy. I'll have a post from special guest Andrew Friedman a little later today, as I'll be getting out to the USTABJKNTC a little later than usual today. In addition to watching India's finest yesterday, I did catch some of Roger Federer's beatdown of promising American rookie Devin Britton.

ISTANBUL (AP) -- Ivan Dodig of Croatia had nine aces as he beat fifth-seeded Andreas Haider-Maurer of Austria 7-5, 6-3 to reach second round of the inaugural Istanbul Open on Tuesday. Dodig saved six of the seven break points he faced and broke Haider-Maurer's serve four times. In other matches,

While all of are anxiously waiting to see if Elena Dementieva can add to her growing reputation as an ace-meister today in Stuttgart (although she'll be going up against Justine Henin), I want to share a portion of an email I had from frequent Comment poster Zola earlier today: Well,

Trivia: Petra Martic and* Marketa *Vondrousova are playing each other in the quarterfinals today. When was the last time two first-time major quarterfinalists played each other in a Major quarterfinal? Check back tomorrow for the answer. The first four quarterfinals take the court today That’s two men’s quarterfinals (Rafael Nadal-Kei