Andy Roddick overcame an early service break to come back and crush Jose Acasuso, the guy who dug himself out of a deep hole to blow Boy Andy out of Roland Garros in a five-set second-rounder last year. Given the career convulsions Roddick’s been going through, this was a must-win

Due to enormously—nay, absurdly—high interest, I am following up my comment on noodling for catfish (see my earlier post, "Party Like it’s 1999") with this link that will put to rest any feminist notions that noodlin’ is a pastime enjoyed only by good ole’ boys given to wearing “Too Drunk

Well, it looks like Lleyton Hewitt's wife, Bec Cartwright, has touched us all, and deeply, with her verse. Just the other day, a reference to E.E. CUMMINGS (just want to make the old boy roll over in his grave) in the comments barely elicited a sleepy "oh him" response, yet

Idemoooo! The Balkan Boys are together again. On Tuesday, Grigor Dimitrov welcomed 24-time major champion Novak Djokovic to Sofia for a special exhibition. The proceeds raised from the "Tennis Gala" benefited Dimitrov’s foundation. “Reunited with my Bulgarian brother,” wrote Djokovic on his Instagram story.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Top-seeded Renata Jamrichova claimed the Australian Open junior girls' singles title with a 6-4 6-1 win over 15-year-old Emerson Jones on Saturday. Jamrichova made six aces and saved five of six break points to clinch her first Grand Slam singles' title in just over an hour

For the first time since 1938, no Australian man reached the second round of Wimbledon. On Tuesday, Lleyton Hewitt, Bernard Tomic, and Matt Edben all lost. Former Wimbledon champion Hewitt didn't appear too concerned. "Obviously the boys didn't have the best day today, said Hewitt, who lost to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.

How about a Masters tournament for its own sake? It would be nice to say that there's a lot at stake as all of the top men re-gather in Shanghai for the first time since the U.S. Open. But not only has the year-end No. 1 ranking been settled—do I

Is the ATP's resident bad boy turning over a new leaf? Just days after retiring from a Citi Open match in Washington, D.C. to a chorus of boos, Nick Kyrgios had a decidedly more positive interaction with the spectators at Rogers Cup in Montreal. He complied with a fan’s Twitter

[Ed. note - in typically self-effacing fashion, Ptenisnet failed to put a tag-line on this update. So, FYI, Ptenisnet/Siva posted this, will be posting all the SP updates from now. That boy's gonna get a whippin' when I get home if he doesn't put his name at the end from

After successfully defending his USTA Boys’ 18s National title and earning a U.S. Open main-draw wild card, newly-turned pro Jack Sock said he wants revenge is New York. "Marco Chiudinelli in a rematch," Sock told ZooTennis. The 18-year-old fell to the Swiss, 6-1, 6-4, 1-6, 6-1, in the first round

The 2020 season may be suspended for now but there are still plenty of things to celebrate in the tennis world, and today’s a big day for ultra-talented Denis Shapovalov, who turns 21. A top junior, Shapovalov’s transition to an elite player on the ATP tour has been a fast

Hi everyone. It seemed as though the weather was the real star of the day in Rome yesterday. I know that early-round matches at some events are ill-attended, but the depleted-of-spectators scene pictured above (during the match between local boy Potito Starace and Spain's Albert Montanes) was unusual even so.

Hi everyone. Just a quick note to say that I won't be posting about my experience with Andre today until considerably later, due to having to wrangle my boy Luke. Once I rassle him into bed, I'm good to go (wife Lisa is still away on business). However - it

Roger Federer says he was pleased that he went largely injury-free this season, which saw him return to No. 2 in the rankings, win the Davis Cup, and welcome a set of twin boys. Following back problems in 2013, Federer admitted that he was unsure how he would rebound. "At

Like all 12-year-olds, Jimmy Connors dreamed big. “My real goal in tennis,” the ambitious boy from Belleville, IL, told Dave Wohlfarth for the June 1965 issue of TENNIS Magazine, “is to play in England and to play on the Davis Cup team. I want to play for my country.” Unlike

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) Over the course of his celebrated career, Roger Federer has acquired wisdom on the tennis courts that translates to life lessons which he hopes his children can learn from. A father of four, Federer has two sets of twins. The girls are 6 and the boys are

WATCH: Sabalenka showed marked improvement ahead of the US Open, where she reached the semifinals.

Sorry, I just couldn't resist echoing that headline from the other day, despite its questionable relevance to the story about Kazakhstan appearing in the Davis Cup World Group draw for the first time. But it's a modest workday for me and this Bulgarian boy, 19-year-old Grigor Dimitrov, is really lighting

NEW YORK (AP) When 55-year-old banking executive Vijay Parimoo told his friends he would be a rookie ball boy at this year's U.S. Open, he expected, and got, a little teasing. ''They were like, `Isn't there an age limit? Shouldn't there be?''' he said. But the U.S. Open has indeed

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — No tirades at the umpire. No insults directed at spectators. No rackets smashed to smithereens. For Nick Kyrgios, the talented yet combustible bad boy of tennis, it was a rather routine 6-1, 6-2, 6-2 win over Portugal's Gastao Elias in the first round of the Australian