WIMBLEDON, England (AP)—Wimbledon eventually could have a second court with a retractable roof. Having wrapped up a 15-year renovation project, the All England Club is contemplating future work, and one possible change being considered is adding a cover for Court 1. Centre Court has had a roof since the 2009

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP)—Overzealous fans at the Australian Open’s so-called “Party Court”—a venue equipped with a bar—grew so loud that a nearby match was moved to a different arena. “When I saw the bar, I was thinking it’s going to be a pretty rowdy atmosphere,” said Jacob Fearnley, a 23-year-old from

Russian Fed Cup captain Shamil Tarpishchev takes issue with the court that will be used in this weekend's semifinal against Serbia at Moscow’s Megasport Arena. Organizers laid the temporary court on top of an ice rink. "I'm not happy with the surface," Tarpishchev told reporters. "The difficulties came from the

WIMBLEDON, England(AP) The All England Club is selling up to 2,500 Centre Court seats at Wimbledon in five-year blocks for $40,700 each. Wimbledon officials say the right to one reserved seat on Centre Court for every day of the tournament between the years 2011-15 will raise about $87.3 million. According

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After skipping the clay-court swing for the second straight year, Roger Federer will kick off his grass-court season in Stuttgart, Germany this week. The world No. 2 last played in Miami back in March, falling in his opening match before taking nearly three months off. "I want to play matches

Wimbledon finalist Agnieszka Radwanska says that Centre Court at Wimbledon, where the Olympics are being played, is not in good shape. "The court is totally different," she told reporters after her three-set loss to Julia Goerges. "It’s so slippery. It feels like it’s been used for two weeks at the

Just two games into the resumption of the Andy Roddick-David Ferrer fourth-round match Thursday on Louis Armstrong Stadium, Roddick pointed out a crack in the court to chair umpire Carlos Bernardes. Roddick, Ferrer, Bernardes and other officials looked at the court and discussed the issue, with the consensus being that

MONACO (AP) — Novak Djokovic opened his clay-court season with a surprising loss to Alejandro Davidovich Fokina at the Monte Carlo Masters on Tuesday. Davidovich Fokina stunned the top-ranked Serb 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-1 in the second round to hand Djokovic another setback as he tries to move on from

In a singles match, my first serve hit the net and came to rest on my side of the court, inside the lines. I left it there. After a good second serve, my opponent’s return hit the ball that I had left on the court. It took a weird, but

Simona Halep has won all of the biggest tournaments on clay—Madrid in 2016 and 2017, Rome in 2020 and the biggest one of them all, Roland Garros, in 2018. And on Saturday she added another achievement to her already-phenomenal clay-court resume: Halep’s 6-3, 6-1 second-round victory over No. 2-ranked Paula

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It’s hard to imagine that the same Wimbledon courts that were played on from 1989-1999 play as slow today as the players claim they do. The courts I played on at that time were low bouncing and slick, the easiest courts to hit winners on tour all year long. I

LONDON (AP) — Carlos Alcaraz began his grass-court season by beating Francisco Cerundolo 6-1, 7-5 in his opener at Queen's Club on Tuesday, and Andy Murray was victorious in his 1,000th tour-level match. The 21-year-old Spaniard returned to action following his French Open title and extended his grass-court winning streak

The first phase of Jake Agna’s ambitious project in Cuba was resurfacing the 10 dilapidated tennis courts at the country’s National Tennis Center in Havana. The renovations to the courts projected to cost $600,000. Generous financial support from the Robert Stiller Family Foundation, The Argosy Foundation, the Serena Fund and

Margaret Court says that world No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki will end her Grand Slam drought this year. "I would say to Caroline, if you can beat them in all the other tournaments, there's no reason you can't beat them in the Grand Slams," 23-time Grand Slam singles winner Court told

The ATP grass-court tournament in Eastbourne will move to Nottingham next year. The Lawn Tennis Association announced that the tournament will take place the week before Wimbledon in 2015, but the women’s event will stay in Eastbourne. In 2015, the pre-Wimbledon grass-court swing will expand to three weeks and be

At a quirky, off-the-chain opening major to this season, records were broken, and records were extended. By the time the singles finals rolled around, the event had taken on a certain vintage, namely 2008 feel—Serena vs. Venus and Rafa vs. Roger. Here are the highlights and lowlights among all that

In “United States of Tennis," our Baseline editors Stephanie Livaudais and Liya Davidov set out to document some of the city’s most unique tennis experiences and iconic venues. Currently in Norfolk, Va., and across New York City, Black Girls Tennis Club is building a unique community that transcends the tennis