Previewing the women's final, and men's semis, at the Mutua Madrid Open. Let's not sugarcoat it: This hasn’t been a week to remember for the WTA. First Serena Williams dropped out, then Victoria Azarenka dropped out, then everyone else lost, then both of Saturday’s semis were duds. The tour probably

NEW YORK—Now is the summer of Roger Federer’s discontent. Meanwhile, his longtime Swiss understudy, who’s lived all these years in Federer’s shadow, is suddenly having the time of his life. This afternoon found Stanislas Wawrinka frolicking in the mellow, autumnal light that bathed Arthur Ashe Stadium, happily raining down aces

When 20-year-old Sebastian Korda arrived for the qualifying rounds at last fall’s pandemic-delayed Roland Garros, he had never before won a tour-level match. Less than two weeks later, he had become the youngest American to reach the fourth round of a Grand Slam since Michael Chang in 1991, earning a

I was never a fan of Anna Kournikova. She was exactly what I thought a female athlete should NOT be: too pretty, too sexy, and too skinny. And because of this, I fell victim to the belief that Kournikova was just a mediocre player who never won a singles title.

This week freelance tennis writer Ravi Ubha is blogging from Queen's Club in London. Here's his third post from the Artois Championships. Wow, who knew Mirka would attract so much sympathy? Yes, the Daily Mirror blurb was tasteless, and Mirka Vavrinec in the stands had little to do with the

It was late 2014, and TENNIS Magazine was planning its January/February issue. Traditionally, the year’s opening issue focused on the Australian Open, but this time we opted to go for a season-preview theme. With a change in course, there was some debate on how we were going to construct the

*91189456 by Pete Bodo Madrid, as most of you know, was the brainchild of Ion Tiriac. That he was able to turn his vision into reality ought to give you a pretty good idea of the degree of the clout and expertise - promotional, financial and political - that this

NEW YORK—It all happened so fast, Paula Badosa’s first rise up the WTA rankings. “You remember,” she says in her Castilian-accented contralto, smiling as she leans on the wall of the Cincinnati Open’s Center Court. We’re standing just off the entrance to the Paul Flory Player Center. As athletes come

Tennis Channel's year-long celebration of the WTA Tour's 50th anniversary, brought to you by Intuit Quickbooks, continues with Chapter 6: Teenage Dream (Watch our feature video above.) - For Chapter 1, Thank You, Gladys, CLICK HERE - For Chapter 2, Red Hot Women's Tennis, CLICK HERE - For Chapter 3:

Part two of a 2011 stock market Rally between freelance tennis writer Kamakshi Tandon and myself. Hi Kamakshi, I didn’t say Philip Bester would be the next Roger Federer, did I? I hope not. I would have been, well, wrong. I think I just said he was the first kid

If you could have your tennis vacation anywhere in the world, where would you go? We give you eight places to start looking. By Ian Keown A Jaguar XJ6 Sovereign meets you at the airport. The chauffeur calls ahead to put in your room-service order. You drive through wrought-iron gates,

Now that world No. 1 Simona Halep has secured one of the Australian Open warm-up titles, at the Shenzhen Open in China, the familiar questions surround her once more: —Can this industrious competitor who resides at No. 1 in the world fully validate her status with a triumph at a

by Pete Bodo We're heading for the weekend, and then the proper kick-off of the European clay-court circuit. So let's take a quick look around to digest and comment on some of the news we might have been too busy to deal with during the recent Sony Ericsson Open, or

It would have been another sleepy fall tennis weekend here, except that the Tennis Channel went all out and brought us the semis and finals from Tokyo on the men’s side and Stuttgart on the women’s. What did the last two matches at these tournaments have in common? A loss

“Tennis doesn’t have an idea problem,” former US Open tournament director Arlen Kantarian told a group of editors at TENNIS Magazine nearly 20 years ago. “It has a get-it-done problem.” The idea, and the question, we were discussing that day was an age-old one: Why doesn’t tennis have its version

Longtime followers of Kevin Anderson wondered periodically if the humble, 6’8”, South African had a tendency to sell himself short. Heading into the 2018 season, the big fellow had captured only three singles titles across his entire professional career. He had been beaten in 10 finals. When he started working

*95662082 by Pete Bodo [For more on the Australian Open, also check out our latest podcast, which ought to be live later this afternoon. And while you're at it, check out our new feature, The Daily Spin.] It's the first bleary-eyed morning of the year's first Grand Slam event, and

• Jh by Pete Bodo* I don't think I'll ever hear the words, "double bagel" (a euphemism for a 6-0, 6-0 blowout) without thinking of Bud Collins. Coming up with the term may not be Bud's biggest contribution to tennis lore and legend and, let's face it, popularizing that expression

In an empty interview room at a small WTA event in Palermo, Italy, Alison Van Uytvanck took a seat in front of a freshly sanitized laptop. With a few clicks and a press of the unmute button, she settled into the first fully virtual press conference in professional tennis. Down

The admirable Michael Chang is celebrating an immensely important anniversary today that in many ways defined who he is. On the fifth of June in 1989, the then-precocious 17-year-old American displayed his steely resolve, immense heart and a large supply of gumption as he confronted the sport’s preeminent player in