"I’ve experienced a lot of discrimination. I've been kicked off courts before and told like I don’t belong here and I shouldn’t be playing here. That actually happened really recently." Sachia Vickery is our guest this week, and she's got a lot to say. The world No. 158 sounds off

You didn’t really expect Rafael Nadal to win his first tournament back after seven months away, did you? I have to say: I did. Yes, there were reasons to doubt it through the week in Viña del Mar. “The knee” and “the body,” as Rafa said, remained question marks. His

Iga Swiatek had to make an unforced error in Dubai eventually. Unfortunately for Swiatek’s opponents, including her latest in Coco Gauff, it wasn’t the kind of miscue they hoped for. On Friday, the world No. 1 dismissed Gauff, 6-4, 6-2, to reach the final of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis

102620102 Howdy, everyone. Today is catch-up day at the office. Tomorrow I'll empty my mental outbox with random thoughts, impressions and experiences from my stint at Wimbledon. I may not get to post tomorrow on Matt Harvey, the Wimbledon poet, with whom I had a visit last week, but that

MarcosBy TennisWorld Contributing Editor Andrew Burton Morning, all. As I was preparing to take notes on Tsonga-Llodra for a Racquet Reaction post, I checked the H2H between the two Frenchmen. Tsonga was 4-0 going in, but two of those wins (Dubai 2010 R32 and Queens' R16) ended with Llodra retiring.

As I travel the world giving clinics and motivational messages, I have found that talking about character is of high interest to people of all ages and in all walks of life. To begin with, the world seems to be going in many different directions. No matter who you are,

LONDON (AP) — Venus Williams' mother could not stop smiling and laughing. She had just watched her 37-year-old daughter reach the Wimbledon semifinals for the 10th time and, well, the whole thing was just a bit hard to believe. "She says, 'I love my job!' and she means it. I

At the start of the Australian Open, I asked whether youth would continue to serve on the women’s side, or whether the old guard, led by Serena Williams, would make a counterattack. I didn’t anticipate that both things might happen at once. Is Ons Jabeur, who beat Qiang Wang yesterday

PARIS (AP) — Four days after getting disqualified from a smaller tournament for smashing his racket against the umpire's chair during a match, Swedish tennis player Mikael Ymer was back in competition at the French Open on Sunday, bowing out in the first round. Ymer's exit this time was far

Ons Jabeur clinched her biggest victory in 10 months at the Qatar TotalEnergies Open, upsetting Zheng Qinwen, 6-4, 6-2 on Tuesday. "There was a lot of believing in myself in preparing for this match," Jabeur said on court. "That definitely helped. I tried to stay as focused as I can.

Delpo By TennisWorld Contributing Editor Andrew Burton For a while, like many people living in the US during the last decade, I became actively interested in poker. Much of ESPN's daytime programming was taken up with the game (I don't think it can be called a sport). You'd watch as

(Hi everyone - Ed McGrogan here with a quick Monday Net Post before I head back down to lovely Forest Hills, NY. I was upstate this weekend, visiting two other lovely towns - Whitesboro and Geneseo - before traveling to a much more boisterous western town, Orchard Park. Many of

(Ed. note: This is the last dispatch from our man in Shanghai, Miguel Seabra. You won't find a more well-informed analysis about some of the issues percolating beneath the surface of the ATP at the moment than this one - PB) Before I left Shanghai to head back home, I

By Pete Bodo Mornin', everyone. I've had a pretty tough week all around, and later this afternoon I have to skip out and get down to Washington D.C. for a thoroughly unexpected memorial service for my great, late friend, Jim Range. I don't want to take up too much of

I wrote an email to my colleagues yesterday afternoon to say I thought the second day of first-round play would produce a bonanza of upsets. After all, the menu was certainly tantalizing, from Caroline Wozniacki vs. Sabine Lisicki right on down to Roger Federer vs. the spectacularly talented and unpredictable

The Wimbledon singles champions, Serena Williams and Novak Djokovic, closed the 2015 Championships with a dance. This isn’t standard practice anymore; the last two winners to cut a rug together were Bjorn Borg and Virginia Wade in 1977 (an event, I confess, that I find hard to picture). But a