When Roland Garros rolls around, the public will be tempted to pick Carlos Alcaraz, Novak Djokovic or Jannik Sinner to win the event. It’s hard to blame anyone for that. BetMGM currently has those three listed as the betting favorites, and the last few years have shown us that it’s

How does the lone remaining U.S. man in the Olympic singles draw begin his second-round match in Rio? If you’re a team player like Steve Johnson, you take a minute to help fix a leaking barrel of ice on Court 4 before going on to beat your opponent, Gastao Elias

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FLASHBACK: Kevin Anderson wins the 2021 Hall of Fame Open at the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island.

Kim Clijsters says she wishes there were more top players at the BNP Paribas Fortis Diamond Games in Antwerp, Belgium, of which she is tournament director, but that there are plenty of good competitors in the field. The tournament shut down in 2008 but returned this year on the WTA

It’s hard not to love Radwanska in this age of big-ball tennis. Her game is as crafty as if it were concocted at Hogwarts. Plus, she’s demonstrated her competitive mettle by obeying the first mandate for a top player: Win the matches you’re expected to take. Although she was raised

Jon Levey answers your Gear Q&A. Email your question to tennis.comproshop@gmail.com. I am in the market for a more elbow-friendly racquet after using a Babolat Pure Aero Rafa. Can you recommend your top picks?—Mike G. Mike, The Pure Aero Rafa is great for hitting with big power and spin, but

MELBOURNE—Great players win when they need to win. Yes, we know this, but Roger Federer took the concept to extremes in the first set of his first-round match against Alex Kudryavtsev today at the Australian Open. For 11 games, Federer rallied with the 26-year-old Russian currently ranked No. 172 in

by Pete Bodo **WIMBLEDON—Although Angelique Kerber has bubbled up into the Top 10 and has become the highest ranked German woman (at No. 8) since Steffi Graf, she's still relatively unknown. That's a little unusual, because this left-hander has a pretty big game that's hard to miss. She also has

Former player Tomas Carbonell tells Mundo Deportivo that one of the reasons why there are so few young players ranked in the top tier of the game is not only because it has grown more physical, but also because they lack understanding of how to properly play. “Why did [31-year-old

At the 4-1 changeover my opponent said she wanted to retire. Shocked, I asked her if she was serious. She said yes. We shook hands. After this she went to the bench, sat down, then stated she wanted a Medical Timeout. She started arguing that when she shook hands, she

Earlier in the week, I heard Jim Courier assert positively that ‘the top players always want to finish a match better than they started’. Based on that metric, I would assume Rafael Nadal is feeling pretty good about his performance today, winning the last 17 games of his fourth-round match

Jeanne Evert Dubin, a world-class tennis player and a member of one of the sport’s most accomplished families, has died at the age of 62 after a lengthy illness. It’s tricky for a tennis player to have an older sibling who’s also an excellent player. In Jeanne’s case, the task

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Cooper Kose is an Australian tennis player who just turned 15 two weeks ago, has braces on his teeth and plenty of big plans in his head. He was a hitting partner for Coco Gauff and others at the Australian Open and signed on the eve

The WTA’s Top 2-ranked players stayed on a final collision course in Dubai, taking different routes to the quarterfinals of the WTA 1000 event on Wednesday. Iga Swiatek continued her scorching run of form, dispatching Liudmila Samsonova, 6-1, 6-0, in 67 minutes. Swiatek won the last 11 games of the

Major League Pickleball will be the first major American professional sports league to implement a promotion and relegation system. The draft for the first season—featuring some of the world's best pickleball players and most famous celebrities—will take place in Las Vegas tonight, Thursday, December 15th, and air on Tennis Channel

Whenever a young champion in the making steps into the limelight by toppling one of the great players in the game, they know that the public and their peers will be asking for more. They realize that it is a daunting task to create a major upset at a Grand

Aryna Sabalenka has been ruling the tennis courts all year long, but this week she’s turned heads on the basketball court too—thanks to a few statement accessories spotted at a Miami Heat game. Recently nominated for the WTA Player of the Year award, the 26-year-old has been enjoying her off-season

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