If you've been missing Justine Henin lately, you might want to tune in to Li Na’s semifinal against Maria Sharapova tomorrow from Beijing. No, you won’t see a re-creation of Justine’s famously fabulous one-handed backhand; Li still goes with her two-hander, which isn’t too shabby itself. But you will see

What are the tell-tale signs of fall in the tennis world? Thus far we’ve been missing the most obvious and reliable one: Complaints about the length of the season. Maybe it’s a tad early to get into all of that again. Maybe it’s because one of the traditional agitators for

WATCH: Tennis Channel Live takes stock of the US Open after news of the Williams sisters' withdrawal

Vica by Pete Bodo MIAMI, Fla.—Victoria Azarenka, a semifinalist in Key Biscayne after eradicating world No. 2 Kim Clijsters, apparently has discovered the secret to life, and it turns out not to be all that complicated. "I'm just in a good mood always, now," said the 21-year old. This comes

The Grand Slam race for 2024 is barreling to the finish line in New York, and just about everyone who’s anyone is healthy enough to play. That’s a victory in itself, and should bode well for the competition over the next two weeks. The ATP’s current ruling triumvirate—Jannik Sinner, Novak

Longtime tennis followers are deeply saddened by the cancelation of Wimbledon this year, equating it in some ways with a death in the family. The last time the world’s preeminent tournament was not held occurred from 1940-45 during World War II. We are missing it sorely right now. But purists

Sloane Stephens began her 2017 North American summer hard-court season with a 7-6 (3), 6-0 loss to Simona Halep in Washington, D.C. She ended it just over a month later at the US Open by winning her first Grand Slam title. Stephens started her 2018 season in Sydney, where she

In the early stages of at stay-at-home orders brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, many across the globe turned to online shopping to seek out necessities and products to enhance life under quarantine. Except there was one problem: the E-commerce world wasn’t prepared to take on the exponential increase in

A few weeks ago, I wrote about an astonishing flip-flop that has occurred in pro tennis. It wasn’t so long ago that variety was the hallmark of the men’s game, with a serve-and-volleyer here, an all-court baseliner there, a clay-court grinder somewhere else. Meanwhile, most WTA players looked as if

Pic by Pete Bodo Having spent the last week screwing around up in the Discovery Islands off the coast of British Columbia, sans any electronic distractions, my re-entry into routine days left me with a number of impressions about my life and habits, one of which is that a tennis

As we reveal this year's edition of The 21 & Under Club, we'd like to call your attention to Team Luke Hope for Minds, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that supports families with children who have suffered an acquired brain injury. Headed by former Texas Tech tennis coach Tim Siegel—whose son,

There are as many similarities as there are differences between Rafael Nadal and Björn Borg, the legend whose all-time record for French Open men’s singles titles the Spaniard is attempting to surpass. Last June, as Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer warmed up for the 2011 men's final on Court Philippe

I know I said I’d be back Saturday with my French Open predictions, but, well, the weather was nice. Which means that, having TiVo’d my way through the first two days of the event—in which Dick Enberg gave art-history lessons on air and Guillermo Vilas kept a close eye on

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) Just before she walked on court, Greta Arn said she was looking forward to the ``privilege'' of playing her first match against Serena Williams. Some privilege. The 13-time Grand Slam champion overpowered Arn 6-1, 6-1 in 59 minutes on Saturday for her 17th straight win at the

The ramrod-straight strut into the arena. The clenched fist as she waited to return serve. The clean ground-stroke winners to the corners. The high-pitched grunt that accompanied each swing. The pre-serve stare down. The unrelenting focus punctuated by the wild double faults. Maria Sharapova has brought them all back, perfectly

The tours are in full stride and descending on the U.S. as we speak. This is as fast-moving as it gets all summer in tennis, with the players making the short flight straight from one Masters/Premier dual-gender extravaganza in Canada to another in Cincinnati. In Montreal and Toronto, the men

The just-concluded Australian Open offered some of the best tennis over two weeks that I can remember, with the emergence of a new star, the re-emergence of an “older” one, and perhaps the end of one era and the beginning of another. If you watched the year’s first Slam unfold—kudos,

Remember this? Serena Williams, yelling and cursing and shaking a racket at a line judge. Or this? Roger Federer, losing a Grand Slam final to someone other than Rafael Nadal. Or this? Maria Sharapova, exiting in the third round against Melanie Oudin, a teenager from Marietta, Ga., with ``BELIEVE'' stamped

I know I said I would be back on December 30 with my look ahead to 2006. I have no excuse. I just put it off until it was too late, and then put it off a little more. I’ve been surprised by the uproar, though. It’s amazing how many

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — This is what went through Andy Murray's mind while catching some of Novak Djokovic's French Open semifinal clash with Rafael Nadal on TV: "There's a bit of me that's jealous watching that. Like, I would love to be playing in those matches," Murray said recently. "I