It was just like old times: Marat Safin reached up into the honey-colored light and threw down thunder, playing tennis like he meant it (something that ceased to be a Safin trademark some time ago). Of course, he also berated himself, bounced his racket, examined the Slazengers the kids threw

Lauren Davis is playing the tennis of her life. The 23-year-old Ohio native is 16-3 in 2017 and has already jumped 24 spots, to No. 38, since the beginning of the year. She won the title in Auckland, came out of qualifying to make the quarters in Doha and won

*89366489 by Pete Bodo Mornin', everyone, I hope y'all had a chance to listen to our latest podcast, and by all means keep your questions coming via email (send them to podcast@tennis.com); I think we'll answering a batch of mail tomorrow, or Friday, in a new segment. If you read

3 HOURS of Tennis?! Watch as we recreate John Isner's routine in Daily Pro

by Pete Bodo It occurred to me about halfway through the schedule at Wimbledon today that if this were to be one of those familiar, topsy-turvy events of Olympiads past, this would have to be the day of the bloodbath. And for a while there, it looked like it might

By now you’ve surely seen the photograph of Tiger Woods, wrapping up his final round at the just-completed Masters, shaking hands with an unidentified person—a figure shielded by a tree so much that you only see an outstretched arm. (Spoiler alert: it’s the venerable Verne Lundquist, a commentator whose iconic

by Pete Bodo Watching the Atlanta Tennis Championships final yesterday, a borderline surreal stat caught me eye. It seemed a poignant and somehow fitting comment on the present state of the U.S. game. Mardy Fish and John Isner, the finalists and two of the three best American players at the

Field reveals typically aren't stop-the-presses news in tennis. The players who will compete in a given tournament typically aren't a surprise, especially for 1000-level events, given their near-mandatory nature. Rankings are spoilers, and besides the wild-card offerings, there's often little intrigue. The 2024 BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells is

97808242 by Pete Bodo Mornin'. Been a hectic week for me, but it looks like a sunny weekend and I'm straining at the leash. But I wanted to update you on my visit with John Isner, whom I met up with on Wednesday for a big feature that will run

The Summer of Nick As tennis players and fans make their way toward the US Open, we'll take a closer look at the past, present and future of Nick Kyrgios—someone who has made plenty of headlines, good and bad, in previous hard-court summers. Like Kyrgios, where this series takes us

In this edition of the Fan Club, I talk with Rob H. from Washington, D.C., about the appeal of Maria Sharapova, perhaps the most famous under-appreciated player in tennis history. Rob, I know you're a real fan, because you told me you thought of driving up from D.C. to meet

Pic This ought to have been a great year for Rafael Nadal, but now that he's pulled out of the U.S. Open in order to rest and rehabilitate his knees (he has chronic tendinitis in both of them) 2012 has become, like 2009, a year of travail, hardship, and sobering

MIAMI, Fla.—It was a two-set WTA match, but it lasted just seconds shy of two-and-a-half hours. The winner hit a dazzling 44 winners—fully 31 more than the loser—yet she was constantly in danger and had to fend off three set points before closing it out. The loser didn’t hit a

Was it me who was wondering the other day whether there really was no future for tennis? Judging by today’s results on the ATP side, where Grigor Dimitrov and Milos Raonic advanced to the semifinals, I may have jumped the gun when it comes to the men. Meanwhile, on the

Few will forget Novak Djokovic officially committing 100 unforced errors against counterpuncher Gilles Simon at the Australian Open in 2016—a contest that the all-conquering Serb actually won in five sets. “Honestly, I didn't expect to make this many unforced errors,” said Djokovic afterwards. “In terms of a level that I've

On the way to work today, I decided to stop at the shoemaker guy just around the corner, where they still have a full, four-seat, shoe-shine stand. I Had to get all spiffed up for tonight, right? So here's a tip, probably just as much for you ladies as men.

Okay, let's take a break from trashing Round Robin and go back to my recent visit with Andy Murray and Brad Gilbert, at Nick Bollettieri's. A day or two before that trip, I had been mulling over some of the issues raised by what seemed to be a sudden fascination

Can you imagine a time when the Wimbledon champion had his number listed in the phone book? And that when this international celebrity and ambassador of dignity won a tournament, he told the crowd to go ahead and look it up and give him a call if they felt like

When Kathy Rinaldi was seven years old, a second grader growing up in Stuart, Fla., she wrote these words for a school assignment: “If I can’t be a tennis player/I think I’ll just be me.” Rinaldi did become a tennis player. Over the course of nearly 20 years, between 1980

WATCH: Despite ending 2021 with a third title, Vekic was only at the beginning of another six-month injury sojourn with her left foot and right knee.