Garbine Muguruza just won Wimbledon for her second career Grand Slam title, and she wants to tell you about what happened after. "After the victory at Wimbledon, I still had a lot of work to do," she writes in a blog for BBVA. The Spaniard had to do 29 interviews

Victoria Azarenka might have an MRI on her problematic ankle prior to her Thursday quarterfinal against Caroline Wozniacki at Indian Wells. The world No. 2 says her ankle has been bothering her since the start of the tournament. The defending champion also has a bad cold and has had trouble

Why do net posts count as part of the net, but scoreboards, trash cans and cup holders attached to the net do not? —M. Kaytaz, Naples, FL It’s not so much that the net posts “count as part of the net.” Rule 2 defines permanent fixtures, and the net and

Serena Williams likes Grand Slam semifinals; coming into her latest one, against Barbora Strycova, she was 31-5 in them. Even better, as far as she’s concerned, are Wimbledon semifinals. Before today, she was 10-1 in those. Her only loss came at the hands of her sister Venus in 2000, when

There’s no more patriotic city than Washington, D.C., and every year millions of people visit the most powerful city in the world. If you're an American tennis fan, summer is the best time to take a trip to the District of Columbia, despite the heat and scattered thunderstorms. Here are

US Open champion Coco Gauff would like the world to know that she is more than just a tennis player. The world No. 3 opened up about how she is finding her identity off the court, staying present in the moment and doing “things that normal teenagers do” in her

“Emotionally, I feel I didn’t handle the situation that well. The focus wasn’t exactly on my tennis, as it should be. And when you don’t focus on playing well and doing what you’re out there to do, what you’re out there to do doesn’t happen.”—Alison Riske, on allowing the French

MELBOURNE, Australia(AP) Andy Murray understands what it will take to beat Roger Federer in the Australian Open final and finally fulfill the hopes of an entire nation. I'm going to need to play my best match ever,'' Murray said Saturday.That's what I plan on doing. If I do, I've

How you carry yourself can bolster your chances of winning. A closely fought tennis match is not just a physical battle. It’s a struggle of will, mental strength, and character. One powerful element in winning matches is establishing dominance. What do I mean by dominance? It has to do with

Rafael Nadal, playing his first event since Carlos Moya joined his coaching team, says the addition has slightly changed his training regimen. According to Nadal, his new coach has not suggested any big adjustments to his game. "Moya has clarity about my playing style," Nadal told El Espanol. "We have

In a USTA 4.0 league doubles match, one of our opponents grunted or shreiked loudly on most of her hits. When we changed ends, I politely asked her to top since this was distracting me. She told me she could make as much noise as she wanted and said I

It's not often that a player turns heads in reaction to his or her sartorial sense during a tournament outside the majors. But that's just what Agnieszka Radwanska did to shimmering effect last week at the WTA tour's stop in Toronto. It just goes to show that a player who

To get the most out of a cardio workout, you need to get your heart rate into your target heart rate zone. However you keep your heart rate elevated—by running, doing intervals on an elliptical machine, on taking a spinning class—the American Heart Association recommends that you do “moderately intense

Nick Kyrgios, who returns this week to play in Washington, has once again created waves by playing up his animosity towards Novak Djokovic. The 24-year-old put up a video of himself scribbling off Djokovic's name on a fan's shirt, having previously told the No Challenges Remaining podcast that Djokovic “had

It’s tennis' equivalent of the body blow – the serve that comes right at you, handcuffing you on the return. How do you handle it most effectively? There are several things you can do to keep from getting burned by the serve into the body. Conventional wisdom says to make

Roger Federer’s withdrawal from the 2021 Australian Open was made official this week, as he continues his recovery from a right knee injury—he’s expected to return shortly after the first Grand Slam of the year. His last tournament was the 2020 Australian Open, where he made the semis. Since Federer

“You got to do the total concentration breathing that Tanjiro does,” Coco Gauff said after her 7-5, 6-3 win over Aryna Sabalenka in Rome on Thursday. “I probably wasn’t doing it like him, but it definitely helped on those match points.” “Shout out to Demon Slayer for helping me.” Do

SYDNEY—Grigor Dimitrov, who lost a tight match to Roger Federer in the quarterfinal in Brisbane last week, said it is possible to beat the top competitors. No. 1 Novak Djokovic smoked Rafael Nadal, 6-1, 6-2, in the final in Doha last Sunday and won 11 tournaments last year, including three

Change is strange, isn’t it? At least it is in tennis. You think it can’t happen, you think the players have no power, and then four of them go ahead and talk to the Grand Slams about spreading their prize-money wealth and what do the Grand Slams do? They spread