NEW YORK—A sweat-soaked Steve Darcis stepped off Court 9 after winning his U.S. Open qualifying match today, turned left, and walked right into his career crest. Wrapping up a 6-0, 7-6 (5) win over Inigo Cervantes, Darcis stopped to sign autographs when one young boy in a blue baseball cap

The practice court is a special place. Many players view it as a necessary evil; something to tolerate between matches. But smart players, ones looking to continually improve, know it’s where the real work is done. It presents an opportunity to hone your strengths, sure-up weaknesses, and experiment with new

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

NEW YORK—Yesterday was one of those days for me at the U.S. Open: A day when no matter what you’re doing, you have this nagging feeling that you’re missing something. You’re watching Dan Evans and Bernard Tomic, but maybe you ought to be at the Christina McHale vs. Elina Svitolina

After Sunday's Wimbledon final—won by Novak Djokovic, 6-2, 6-2, 7-6 (3)—Joel Drucker and Steve Tignor discuss the Serb’s meteoric resurrection, Kevin Anderson's match too far, and ask the question: Is the Big 4 era...starting over? WATCH—Novak Djokovic wins his fourth Wimbledon title:

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The Latest on the Australian Open (all times local): 12:45 a.m. All of the top 10 seeded women have reached the third round at the Australian Open for the first time since 2007. It's the first time it's happened at any Grand Slam tournament since Wimbledon

Luxembourg, Seoul, Gangzhou, Palermo, Mumbai, Tashkent, Stuttgart, Bangkok, Tokyo, Metz, Moscow, Vienna, Stockholm, Bangkok again. While it may sound like a verse from that old post-disco non-classic “Pop Muzik” (worst song ever?), it's actually a list of the sites visited by pro tennis players in just the last three weeks.

It's a rain-soaked winter day, and last year’s US Open sensation CiCi Bellis is pumped. She’s coming off her first four-day rest in at least a year and she’s pummeling forehands and backhands against a pair of former Division I college players. Her mother, seated nearby, barks out occasional instructions.

WATCH: The 2022 Australian Open has experienced plenty of turbulence already, including an unexpected delay to the draw ceremony Click here to view the complete men's and women's US Open draws.

PARIS (AP) — Some of the men to watch at the French Open, which begins Sunday at Roland Garros: NOVAK DJOKOVICRanked: 1 Country: Serbia Age: Turns 35 on Sunday

If there’s a universal truth in tennis today, it is this: The Davis Cup cannot win. In 2009, the big idea was to move the quarterfinal and semifinal ties to the weekends right after Wimbledon and the U.S. Open, so the players could go straight from one to the other.

• Nd I'm at the beach this week, so I'll wrap up Toronto (seems so long ago, doesn't it?) and do a quick preview of Cincy as I head out*. Tennis tournaments carve up time; you can live in them. When you look at a season’s worth, only four will

• Picby Pete Bodo* One of the best means by which to judge the magnitude of Roger Federer's achievement at Wimbledon and the dividends it continued to pay as late as yesterday, when Federer officially cracked the Sampras code (most weeks at No. 1 since the beginning of the computer

On Sunday, I spent much of the morning looking at a shiny red car that had been placed behind the players inside the center court in Madrid. On Monday morning I was greeted with a new view, of the white statues and marble rows of seats that surround those same

PARIS (AP) — The Latest from the French Open (all times local): 10:50 p.m. Serena Williams has opened an online shop for her fashion line. She announced the venture with a series of tweets that described the path she took from the original idea more than a decade ago to

The 2024 tennis season was filled with noteworthy stories, breakthrough moments, and countless trophy lifts. But what were the best matches of the year that was? We rolled the tape, and this week, TENNIS.com is counting down some of the best WTA matches of the past year (with our ATP

by Hannah Wilks, TW Contributing Writer* On the protracted journey to North Greenwich this morning (London transport is laboring under major engineering works and facing a tube strike), almost every conversation I overhear is a discussion of Federer and Nadal. It makes me so pleased that on a weekend when

This year marks the 50th anniversary of TENNIS Magazine's founding in 1965. To commemorate the occasion, we'll look back each Thursday at one of the 50 moments that have defined the last half-century in our sport. “It’s eerie what the tiebreakers do,” Arthur Ashe said at the 1970 U.S. Open.

Catch up on Day 1 at Roland Garros with Tennis Channel's wrap-up show. PARIS (AP) — The Latest from the French Open (all times local): 9:50 p.m. Yuichi Sugita was making an impressive comeback against Steve Johnson of the United States in the first round of the French Open when

Over the next three days, we'll look at how the coronavirus crisis has impacted one aspect of tennis in a particularly cruel way: the college game. On Monday, Steve Tignor looks back on a season at the top for the University of Southern California men's team—before it suddenly stopped. He