BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Formula 1 has done it, so has professional golf, the National Hockey League and the elite tennis tour. Now it's time for ball boys and ball girls to take center court in a reality-style documentary. Tennis Australia this week said "Ballkids," a 65-minute film, is set

Three hours after the last ball had been struck, four boys no taller than five feet tall walked, ran and smack-talked one another on the Volvo Car Stadium at the Family Circle Tennis Center. “Do you have a racquet?” one asked. “Do you?” “I’ve got the balls.” “Watch me jump

NEW YORK—“You gotta show me something!” Brad Gilbert yelled at Kevin Anderson during their post-match interview in Louis Armstrong Stadium on Monday. The ESPN commentator demanded that the South African turned Floridian, who had just beaten Andy Murray to reach his first Grand Slam quarterfinal at age 29, rip his

Now a mother of three, Kim Clijsters shared a picture of the newest addition to her family, Blake Richard Lynch. Clijsters also had an eight-year-old daughter Jada and a three-year-old son Jack with her husband Brian Lynch. The former No. 1 has been pretty open about her pregnancy this time

Day 2: Tuna Tartare Where: Wine Bar Food (South Plaza and Arthur Ashe Stadium) Cost: $14 Wine Bar Food looms large on the South Plaza of the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, a mammoth open-air canteen and watering hole with a wraparound bar, open kitchen, and adjacent high-boys

TORONTO (AP) -- Roger Federer is enjoying the good life. At 33, he has 17 Grand Slam titles and a family now four children deep after his wife gave birth to twin boys in May. Now, as he plays in a U.S. Open tuneup at the Rogers Cup, he considers

Late in the first set of his match on Tuesday night, Jannik Sinner was given a time-violation warning by chair umpire Mo Lahyani. Sinner had taken a few too many seconds inspecting a ball and throwing it back to the ball boy. When Layhani announced the warning, Sinner briefly shook

Two teenagers show up at Flushing Meadows in 1995. Wide-eyed, the twin pride and joy of Camarillo, CA share an exuberance with the city that never sleeps. The boys approach the tournament credential office, marching in sync, ready for a lifelong dream to begin. “What are you doing?” inquires a

*Vera by Pete Bodo Boy, it sure gets lonely here in the virtual sportsbar that chose to present Fed Cup rather than the Monte Carlo semis and final. . . the operative word being "virtual," because in no reality-based scenario would a bartender even think of having all those giant

NEW YORK—It may be time to private your X accounts, boys and girls: tennis players have officially had it with Tennis Twitter. Coco Gauff made oblique references to “those who thought they were putting water on [her] fire” during her 2023 US Open trophy ceremony, but went all in during

Tommy Paul is still adjusting to life on the ATP tour. The 20-year-old New Jersey native won the 2015 French Open boys’ singles title and was the runner-up later that year at the U.S. Open, but winning on the pro tour hasn’t come as easily. Coming into 2017, the American

Tommy Haas has never been like most of Roger Federer’s contemporaries; that is, he's never been just a whipping boy. Or at least that’s never how he’s seen himself. You wouldn’t know that from his career head-to-head record against Federer; coming into their final yesterday in Halle, Haas hadn’t beaten

Delving into just what makes a good tennis television commentator might seem a complicated subject, but for me it’s pretty easy. It’s the same thing that distinguishes a good writer from a mediocre one. The litmus test is simple: “Is he or she interesting?” Granted, there’s a subjective element involved

TORONTO—Novak Djokovic and Sam Querrey took the court for their Rogers Cup match trailed by ball boys carrrying the American flag for Querrey and the Serbian flag for Djokovic. Djokovic received a hearty cheer from the crowd that was happy just to see tennis after yesterday's entire schedule was washed

There will be more focus on this year’s Davis Cup Finals than there has been in years. Bob Bryan, former Davis Cup champion, future Hall of Famer and current captain of the U.S. team, hopes it’s not only because Rafael Nadal is saying goodbye to tennis in Malaga, Spain. “Our

WATCH: Ruud capped a superb 2022 season by reaching the Nitto ATP Finals in Turin.

WATCH: Kyrgios has played tremendous tennis on grass, pushing Hubert Hurkacz to the brink in Halle.

In 2006, the British sports columnist Simon Barnes wrote these words about the ATP’s No. 1 player at the time: “When Federer becomes the boy with the racquet of fire, creating the illusion of art, he also creates an additional illusion: that his opponent is not, in fact, opposing him.

Seven of the final 16 competitors at the 2014 USTA Boys’ 18 National Championships in Kalamazoo were in the same place at the beginning of this week—the main draw of the Australian Open. Many of those names—such as Taylor Fritz, Frances Tiafoe and Reilly Opelka—have been labeled the future of

KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. — Along the stadium at the Miami Open, a player is mid-stretch, seated on a large towel spread out on the concrete floor. She’s taking her time going through the motions as ball boys race around her, and other players get in their own stretches. That player