by Pete Bodo Howdy, everyone. I missed most of the election discussions last night because of the state of our apartment, which will be going on the market this weekend with an open house, kicked off by an ad in the real estate section of the New York Times. But

by Pete Bodo Howdy. Ready for another edition of our weekly news feature? These are still fairly slow times on the major tennis tours, so most of our items will focus on off-court events, so let's get right at it. Now Sharapova, That's a Different Story! Anna Chakvetadze has been

Foul weather, as much as anything else, has been the early theme at the French Open. Coming into the event, there was widespread dread over the two-week forecast, which made it look like the tournament had been relocated from Paris in spring to London in November. On Tuesday we saw

The commercial extravaganzas known as the French, U.S., and Australian Opens are played continuously for two weeks. All of them begin with family-friendly festivities on the weekend before play begins, and none of them stop for a breath until the tournament ends a fortnight later. There’s even been, both voluntarily

WATCH: Ostapenko booked a blockbuster semifinal with Victoria Azarenka after winning a titanic three-setter over Shelby Rogers.

On Wednesday, February 17, Lindsey Vonn won Olympic gold in the downhill at the Vancouver Games. Below is an interview with Vonn, a tennis fanatic, conducted last fall with TENNIS.com's Sarah Thurmond. Two-time defending World Cup overall champion Lindsey Vonn (née Kildow) is considered the greatest alpine skier of her

If the Grand Slams ever give in and reduce men’s matches from best-of-five sets to best-of-three, one group of people will likely jump—and chant, and stomp—for joy: the Aussie Fanatics. When their countrymen are playing, those notorious, semi-professional noisemakers from Down Under must be as loud as they can be,

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Jenson Brooksby tugged at the right shoulder of his red T-shirt and fiddled with some strands of his dirty blond hair as he spoke to The Associated Press about what he'd like the world — the tennis world, yes, but also everyone else — to know

“Always the beginning of the clay season is very exciting to see who’s in the best form,” Holger Rune expressed to me earlier this month in Monte Carlo. While the Dane was forced to retire from his opening match at the Rolex Monte Carlo Masters due to food poisoning, Rune

MELBOURNE—Old media isn’t quite as dead as the dead wood it’s printed on, at least not yet. But there was a distinctly 20th century sensation to waking up this morning, looking at the front page of The Age, the city’s biggest daily, and seeing this as the main tennis headline:

There’s an ominous look to the red clay as this highlight reel begins. The bright midday sun in Madrid has baked it back to its elemental state; the court appears to be as dry and dusty as a desert, as hostile as the surface of Mars. It’s a place where

Was she retiring? Was she ill? Was she rolling out a new line of athlete-approved candy? Speculation grew frenzied as Maria Sharapova walked across what she would later call a “fairly ugly carpet” and stepped to the microphone in a Los Angeles hotel ballroom on Monday. But as she unfolded

Si-Mo-Na!. . .Si-Mo-Na!. . .Si-Mo-Na!. . .Si-Mo-Na! For years, that chant reverberated through tennis stadia worldwide—how easily it rolls off the tongue, how chant-friendly that name is!—as Simona Halep mesmerized fans with her exuberantly athletic game and her disarming charm. She enjoyed the universal appeal of players relegated by physique

The pandemic has caused the loss of some prime combined (ATP plus WTA) tournaments, including, for the second consecutive year, Indian Wells. But it has also led to some valuable out-of-the-box thinking, and a long overdue effort to create greater engagement between the two tours. So maybe it’s time to

The big news from Down Under this morning appears to be Taiwan's upset of Argentina in the Hopman Cup competition (those photos are of Hsieh Su-Wei and Lu Yen Hsun, respectively). This event is an enjoyable exhibitions for fans as well as players. Most players, anyway. Apparently, Jelena Jankovic suffered

HIGHLIGHTS: Isner defeats two-time champion Murray at Wimbledon Attend this year's Infosys Hall of Fame Open in Newport, R.I. with TicketSmarter

“There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune,” said Shakespeare’s Cassius. There is a general feeling among the tennis cognoscenti with whom I have spoken that Novak Djokovic, who seems to be taking on a Cassius persona with Vasek Pospisil

As it turned out, guests in the President's Suite get tickets for a choice box in Louis Armstrong stadium, so Lisa and I got to watch the Novak Djokovic-Radek Stepanek match from a terrific vantage point: the second row, behind the baseline to the left of the chair umpire. This

“Serena Williams: Love Her, Hate Her, She’s the Best Ever”. That’s the line that greeted us on the cover of last week’s post-Wimbledon issue of Sports Illustrated. It was a surprise in one sense. Serena, despite her continued dominance, has yet to match the career totals—the Slam wins, the tournament

Students of tennis history were well aware that Roger Federer had never toppled his renowned rival Rafael Nadal three times in a row since their illustrious rivalry commenced back in 2004. They knew that Nadal owned a 23-12 career lead in his career series with the Swiss. They recognized that