More than with most sports, to watch a tennis match is to concentrate and meditate on every miniscule aspect, every tic, of the two people on court. You can know a player by his forehand and his kick serve, but you can also know him by his grunt, his headband,

• Rn “They were so simple, those little English tournaments, so utterly artless. Homemade, if you like. Red clay courts, damp and heavy, clubhouses of old brick, and inside all the woodwork nearly worn out. Floors, tables, bashed-up little bars. In the change-rooms, wooden lockers, wet floors, and nice old

Each day during the Australian Open, we'll select three of the most intriguing matches on the schedule and offer our predictions. Janko Tipsarevic [9] vs. Richard Gasquet [17] (Margaret Court Arena, third match) Head-to-Head: Gasquet leads 1-0 Tipsarevic revealed he rarely watches television, but he will be a small-screen star

PARIS (AP) While a bank of photographers took pictures for posterity and the front pages of the world, Rafael Nadal lovingly studied the champions' names - the likes of Bjorn Borg, Roger Federer and, of course, his own - engraved on the base of the French Open trophy. A huge

WATCH: Badosa secured the No. 2 ranking last week in Stuttgart after defeating good friend Ons Jabeur in three sets.

How do you follow the Greatest Generation? It’s a question tennis has tried to answer for at least a decade. Serena, Roger, Novak, Rafa: all of them are over 30, and they’ve combined to win 75 Grand Slam singles titles—but none of them are going away quietly. When they do,

View the entire men's bracket at our Wimbledon tournament page. Tennis isn’t run out of the offices of the All England Club the way it once was, but Wimbledon can still throw a little of its old weight around. This year, the tournament unilaterally reversed the seedings of Rafael Nadal

We're almost there. It's been a long, dirty road: Will it end with Federer-Nadal? They've each got very tough opponents to get through. Which is only right, I suppose, though I confess that I'll be seriously let down if they don't make it. (Please, not Ljubicic! Oh...sorry...did I say that

The Break: Kyrgios and Tsitsipas figured into the notable quotables from SW19

[I hope you all enjoy this report from Stuttgart by our own Rosangel. I'll be back with a post later in the day - Great job, Rosia! . . . PB] A multiple choice question follows: You are in Stuttgart at Tennis Club Weissenhof, watching the 2007 singles final between

PARIS (AP) — The Latest from the French Open (all times local): 9:30 p.m. Serena Williams' next opponent at the French Open will be 11th-seeded Julia Goerges. The German player reached the third round at Roland Garros for the fourth time with a 7-5, 7-6 (5) win over Alison Van

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;

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — The Latest from Wimbledon (all times local): ___ 5:55 p.m. Jessica Pegula's run of quarterfinal appearances at Grand Slam tournaments this year is over after a loss to Petra Martic of Croatia in the third round at Wimbledon. Martic defeated the eighth-seeded American 6-2, 7-6 (5)

INDIAN WELLS, Calif.—Sunday's BNP Paribas Open final will be a rematch of 2022's championship match, with former champion Iga Swiatek up against a resurgent Maria Sakkari, who won a late-night thriller against Coco Gauff on Friday. When they last faced off in the desert, Swiatek had just begun her march

In her first tournament appearance of the 2010s, in Sydney, Serena Williams said, “I definitely like to keep going when the going is tough. More than anything, I enjoy it. The moment I step on the court it’s like, this is what I was born to do. It’s what I

Last year, for the 50th anniversary of TENNIS Magazine, we focused on the past. Given the tome of stories we’d told, and the trove of players and matches we’d witnessed over the past half-century, it was only natural to look back. And it was comical to even consider doing something

“Imagine the pressure,” I thought as the last game of the men’s final at Wimbledon wound toward its torturous conclusion. I was thinking of Andy Murray, of course, but I also had another famous London sports figure in mind. There, a few rows in front of me in the press

Today we make the turn from July to August; in tennis terms, that means we move from Wimbledon’s month to the U.S. Open’s, and that’s the way it has felt the last few days and nights. Summer tennis in the States is in full swing, and it will get even

WATCH: Dominic Thiem won't appear on our list, as he's withdrawn from the tournament—along with Naomi Osaka, Rafael Nadal and Simona Halep.

• 103647198 by Pete Bodo* New York—The USTA conducted the U.S. Open draw this morning, sans Novak Djokovic. He was supposed to join Kim Clijsters (right) as a player representative, but was last heard from while lost on the Sheridan Parkway or the Cross Bronx Expressway en route to the