Robert Lansdorp, the former coach of Tracy Austin, Pete Sampras, Lindsay Davenport and Maria Sharapova, reacts to TENNIS' "The State of the American Game," as featured in the magazine's November/December issue. I read your article on the state of American tennis. Oh boy, how many more excuses can we come

There's a #TennisAtHome clip making the rounds and it's not at all what you'd expect. Players like Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, Fabio Fognini and many more have been finding innovative ways to keep their touch by playing indoors, on walls or in backyards. But a little boy on a mini-court

WATCH: Tiafoe took his Wimbledon momentum straight through the semifinals of Atlanta.

NEW YORK—While 15-year-old Coco Gauff has stolen the show, two other teens are making their mark this week. On Thursday, 15-year-old Martin Damm Jr. and 16-year-old Toby Kodat became the youngest men's doubles team to win a US Open match since the Open era began in 1968. Gauff's beat Timea

By TW Contributing Editor, Ed McGrogan Last Week's & This Week's Tournament** Roland Garros (ATP & WTA - Clay - Paris, France) - Men's Singles - Women's Singles - Men's Doubles - Women's Doubles - Mixed Doubles - Boys' Singles - Girls' Singles - Boys' Doubles - Girls' Doubles (Television

Mackenzie McDonald, an unranked 18-year-old wild card from Northern California, qualifies for the Cincinnati Masters. McDonald, who had never won an ATP match before, was given a wild card into qualifying. He had lost in the round-of-16 of the USTA Boys' 18s at Kalamazoo, Michigan earlier in the week. McDonald

While many women players have made news in the last year by becoming mothers (Kim Cljisters, Lindsay Davenport, Anastasia Myskina), Bahamian Mark Knowles also made headlines last week with the birth of his second child, Brody Mark. He and his wife of four years, Dawn, welcomed the baby boy on

"I am a poster [boy] with no poster/ I am 32 flavors and then some ..." —Ani DiFranco Having recently made a 17-year-old fan and cancer patient's dreams come true, Roger Federer heads into practice in Mason, Ohio—think Cincinnati—for the Western & Southern Open with a sky-high public-opinion rating. Then

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) What's your goal in tennis? ``To be a champion!'' snaps a 7-year-old boy holding an oversize tennis racket with a baseball hat turned backward. The lively kid with bushy hair from an old video aired on state TV is Novak Djokovic, who has reached his first Wimbledon

David Steinbach has a motto that he’s stuck with throughout his 35 years as a high-school tennis coach: quantity plus quality equals success. It’s an equation that has treated him well. As the coach of the girls’ and boys’ Brookfield Central High School tennis teams, Steinbach has notched over 1,000

Bernard Tomic says he is ready to shed his bad-boy image and concentrate on tennis following an up-and-down season that has seen him drop to No. 56 in the world. The 22-year-old Australian, who underwent double hip surgery following the Australian Open, has repeatedly been in the news over the

NEW YORK (AP) — Patrick Kypson and Ashley Kratzer have earned wild-card entries into the U.S. Open by winning the USTA Boys' and Girls' 18s national championships. Kypson, 17, of Raleigh, North Carolina, outlasted 18-year old J.J. Wolf of Cincinnati, 6-7(1), 6-4, 1-6, 6-3, 6-2 on Sunday at Kalamazoo College

John Isner has parted ways with longtime coach Craig Boynton and has hired veteran U.S. coach Michael Sell, the New York Timesreports. Boynton served as Isner’s coach since March 2009 and took him to a career-high No. 9 ranking in April 2012. The 27-year-old ended the year ranked No. 14,

Stefan Kozlov, 15, nearly defeats Poland’s Michal Przysiezny in a 6-3, 6-7 (9), 6-4 loss at Newport. Kozlov, who reached the Wimbledon boys’ quarterfinals, received a wild card into the event. “In five or six years, I think he will be very good. I wish him all the best,” Przysiezny

Life is truly about the seemingly small things sometimes. Abbe Seldin found that out in a local-turned-outsize way in 1972 when a Rutgers law professor named Ruth Ginsburg took up her case. Then 15, the New Jersey–based, high-school sophomore wanted to play on the tennis team. Small matter, no? No.

55395312 By Pete Bodo Mornin', everyone. So here I am at the start of the three-week US Open slog. Sorry I'm a little late with this - I had to drop my boy Luke off at "zoo camp" (it's a one-week program at the Bronx Zoo), and Andrew Friedman and

GQ magazine’s ongoing love affair with Roger Federer has made it to spring. (Was there any doubt?) Hot off titles at the Australian Open and BNP Paribas Open, as well as a late-2016 Most Stylish Man designation via Gentleman’s Quarterly, Federer has landed the coveted role of cover boy for

NEW YORK (AP) — Matthew Forbes won the USTA 18-under singles boys national title to earn a spot in the US Open later this month. If Forbes enrolls as planned for his freshman season this year at Michigan State, he can't cash in on the minimum of $100,000 in prize

Anna Kournikova's mother Alla has been arrested after Kournikova's 5 1/2-year-old brother Allan jumped from a second-storey window, reports the Palm Beach Post. Police charged Alla with child neglect after learning the boy had been left alone in the house, said the paper. Alla reportedly told police she gave Allan

U.S. Open junior boys' champion Jack Sock completes his high school career with an 80-0 record and leads the Blue Valley North team to its third consecutive team state title in Kansas. Sock also won his fourth consecutive state singles title, something that had not been done since 1990. "When