In a battle of the ages, the lizard finals of the Pet Tennis Championship saw Tail Monphilles take on Nick Chamelios. The dramatic match saw a lot of momentum swings, as the two chameleons split sets before Chamelios broke away with the third-set. "I know I got a slow start

Australian great John Newcombe says tennis should consider adding a fifth Grand Slam tournament—and offer to sell it to China for $1 billion. ''There has been talk about it over the years. I know that China would love to have the fifth Slam,'' Newcombe told The Sydney Morning Herald. ''I

Defending champion Svetlana Kuznetsova joins Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova and No. 2 Kim Clijsters as high profile withdrawals from the Mercury Insurance Open in San Diego, which begins next week. "Sorry guys, I have to say I won’t defend my title in San Diego and very sad about it," the

Most players don’t have a sound forehand volley. What I loved about Billie Jean King’s forehand volley was that she didn’t have a huge backswing. Pat Cash was the same way. Most people think the volley is a power shot. I try to get people to see it as a

NEW YORK (AP)—Serena Williams won her first major title at the 1999 U.S. Open, when she was just 17. She won her 17th at the same site, at age 31. Given the way she's playing right now, and the way her game keeps evolving, there's every reason to believe that

On the most recent episode of Tennis Bets Live, I noted that I have a future on Novak Djokovic to win the Miami Open at +187 odds. For anybody that also has Djokovic to win the tournament, the decision on what to do with his final against Jakub Mensik is

In a tiebreak against a hard-hitting server, I had my partner stand behind me as I returned serve and rushed the net. Seeing the open court, the server hit my return into the net, but then complained that we both couldn’t stand on the same side of the court. What’s

Morning, all. Roger Federer has wrapped up a straight sets win (I nearly wrote stright sets, but I don't want to lapse into Strine at this stage - don't want to peak too early in the tournament) over Andreas Seppi. Performance of the day, though, has to be the British

Serena Williams drew some criticism for her visible display of illness during her semifinal against Timea Bacsinszky, but not from her opponent. "Sometimes I know that she was taking a bit more time, but I never really thought she was doing it on purpose to destabilize me," said the 25-year-old

The third round saw the exit of two venerable players. First Wayne Arthurs lost to Jonas Bjorkman. And consequently, I was very respectfully ushered out of the Suicide Pool. I did briefly argue the case for reincarnation, but, apparently these things have a no suicide policy. pffft! There is, still,

“I hope I don’t play you anymore this year,” said Marton Fucsvovics to Andrey Rublev after losing in straight sets for the second time this month. Fucsovic’s sentiment is likely shared by everyone on tour, except perhaps Rublev’s semifinal opponent, Aslan Karatsev, who will surely be fired up at the

When it was all over, when the only thing left to do was watch Brad Gilbert stand up, touchingly and awkwardly, and applaud for Rafael Nadal in the ESPN studios, I slouched back into the couch cushions, still sweating a little, and said, aloud, to no one: “Now I have

HIGHLIGHTS: Borna Coric wins the 2022 Cincinnati Masters

Mackenzie McDonald, an unranked 18-year-old wild card from Northern California, qualifies for the Cincinnati Masters. McDonald, who had never won an ATP match before, was given a wild card into qualifying. He had lost in the round-of-16 of the USTA Boys' 18s at Kalamazoo, Michigan earlier in the week. McDonald

Holger Rune patiently waited two years for a return to the winners’ circle. On Sunday, he was made to wait a tad bit longer after closing out an impressive win over top seed Carlos Alcaraz. For the Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell had one more performance to stage. After Rune defeated

Novak Djokovic vs. Alexander Zverev “I mean, look, I know about NextGen tournament,” Novak Djokovic said earlier this week in Rome, “because all I hear these few days is NextGen, NextGen event in Milan.” Djokovic was answering a question—obviously one he had heard a few times before—about the ATP’s new

To wind up 2014, I’m reposting 14 articles I liked from this past season. I’ll put up one each day until January 5, when the new season begins. Today, I remember Dinara Safina—again—the former No. 1 who retired this year at age 27. Dinara Safina, as I remember her, always

"That period of my life was tough because I had to try and figure out, at 21, 22, 23 years old, how I was going to turn my career back around into a positive direction where the later stages of my career could be more successful than the early stages."

“Last year towards the end of the season, I put myself in a good position. Had the changes not occurred I’d be close the Top 300 right now... You don't know what your next tournament is going to be. It's really hard to keep up that motivation. I go through

Mornin' everyone. I'm working on a post for ESPN on the French Open and will probably use that as a jumping off point for a discussion tomorrow or Thursday. Today, though, I just want you all to know that it's publication date for the book Pete Sampras and I put