Six days of watching matches, spying on practice sessions, and slumping in press conferences tends to get a reporter caught up in an occasional story line of dubious significance. I can safely say that one of the major themes of this week will not be written into the tennis-history books.

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

[Blogging advisory. I will be out of touch until I post the Crisis Center for Tuesday's matches tomorrow (Monday) evening. And on Tuesday, I will be in Las Vegas for the day, but business will continue as usual here at TW until my return. I hope to bring you some

If you weren’t paying close attention, you could read this first-round result from the Swedish Open as just another routine case of an inspired local player playing out of his gourd on a fast indoor court and demolishing an over-matched and out-gunned South American clay-court specialist. The scoreline said: Joachim

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

This is a good week—sometimes it’s the only week—for U.S. players to put a clay-court title on their résumés. Charleston and Houston are the only places where professional dirt-ball comes to the States. When these tournaments are over, the long slog through European dirt begins. For U.S. players, that’s a

You never know what the future will bring, but going into 2008 few of us could have conceived of one in which Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal became semifinal fodder. That’s what the two best players in the world have been in the two biggest tournaments of the year so

by Pete Bodo Mornin'. I admit, I'm feeling a little mischievous bordering on perverse today - maybe it's the fact that I'm coming down off this weird anti-depressant that I've been taking, not because I'm depressed (y'all know what a happy-go-lucky guy I am) but because it happens to have

PARIS (AP) On days like these, when so little goes right and so much goes awry, Maria Sharapova tosses away the strategies and scouting reports her coach devises and, well, does whatever it takes to win. Locked in a three-set, 3-hour struggle at a wet and windy French Open on

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Rafael Nadal bowed his head during changeovers and rested his elbows on his knees, the very picture of resignation. What already was a poor start to 2023, following a year marred by all manner of health issues, reached a low point at the Australian Open on

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — This was quite a return for Serena Williams. Almost as if she never left. In her first match at the Australian Open since winning the 2017 title while pregnant — and her first official match anywhere since a loss in the chaotic U.S. Open final last

Every move of the “Big Four” justifiably commands attention. But forget about Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray, if only for a second, and consider the peculiar fate of Marin Cilic in 2016. The Croat is one of only two players this season—Juan Martin del Potro being

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

For the first week of Roland Garros I'll be exchanging emails with Senior Editor, Jon Levey, who's in Paris to cover the tournament. Here's his early take on things. Hey Steve, Greetings from Paris. Or, as I like to call it, a bad place to get lost. I had the

LONDON (AP) — The Latest from Wimbledon (all times local): 9:10 p.m. Maria Sharapova lost in the first round at Wimbledon after fellow Russian Vitalia Diatchenko came from a set and a break down to oust the former champion. Sharapova served for the match at 5-3 in the second set

NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. Open, the last Grand Slam tournament of the year (all times local): 12:30 a.m. Top-ranked Rafael Nadal came back from a set and a break down to beat Japan's Taro Daniel 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 and reach the U.S. Open's third

WIMBLEDON, England(AP) About an hour after Rafael Nadal finished off Andy Murray in the Wimbledon semifinals, a reporter began a question in Spanish this way: ``One year later, another final ...'' The guy quickly was cut off. And corrected. No,'' Nadal said,two years later.'' The way Nadal's playing at

NEW YORK (AP) Mardy Fish wished he'd had a chance to get used to playing in windy Arthur Ashe Stadium during this U.S. Open before facing Novak Djokovic in the fourth round. Then again, the 19th-seeded American encountered plenty of other problems in a 6-3, 6-4, 6-1 loss to the

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) Mardy Fish is doing some things a little bit differently at Wimbledon this year - and chief among them is advancing to the quarterfinals for the first time. The lone American remaining at the tournament made it that far Monday by beating 2010 runner-up Tomas Berdych 7-6

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Let other players downplay their championship chances at Wimbledon. Let other players profess — feign? — humility. Let other players express caution in Week 1 that it's still way too early to be talking about the possibility of reaching the final at the end of the