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

Seems like ESPN has been doing some last minute housekeeping on the tennis site, so my post isn't up yet, but I will be doing the 2 P.M. chat, as billboarded there. In other news, it appears that I will be getting together with Andy Roddick sometime in early December

WATCH: World No. 1 Ashleigh Barty leads a top tier of challengers into the Wimbledon semis.

In the early stages of at stay-at-home orders brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, many across the globe turned to online shopping to seek out necessities and products to enhance life under quarantine. Except there was one problem: the E-commerce world wasn’t prepared to take on the exponential increase in

The French have always been paragons of sophistication and they’ve never shied away from letting you know it. They have the finest wine, the most cerebral writers, luxurious scarves, and the Mona Lisa, not to mention the stinkiest cheese, and—d’accord!—those Repetto ballet flats. But that only makes their obsession with

What would the French Open look like if it were played somewhere other than Roland Garros? Let’s take a step back: Could there even be a Grand Slam in Paris at any other location? The tournament and the site where it has been played since 1928 are so intertwined that,

First-time Grand Slam finalist Petra Kvitova will face former Wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova in the women's final. We asked Peter Bodo, who's reporting from the All England Club, five questions about the match. 1. How much of an underdog is Kvitova? I don’t think she’s much of an underdog at

Tennis Channel Live: The Social Net, as we head into the US Open

[Ed. Note: Pete's gone to Andes for the weekend. In his absence, we are proud to present programming by various members of the TW Tribe. Today, for your perusal, we offer two opposing viewpoints on the same man's current career outlook. Which side will you weigh in on?] Lleyton Hewitt:

by Pete Bodo Howdy, everyone. I've got a busy day here at the mothership, with a monthly planning meeting and then a video shoot (in a proper studio, no less!) with my compadre Jon Levey later in the afternoon. I won't be around much today. But remember, we'll have our

The U. S. Open hasn't even started and we're already embroiled in a headline-generating controversy, CBS commentator Mary Carillo’s charge that Roger Federer tanked his match against Andy Murray at the recent Cincinnati Masters event. The story slowly took on a life of its own, which was a bad deal

Halep by Pete Bodo The headline is telling: Halep, Arn advance in Fez; Pervak upsets Kerber. I wouldn't be surprised if even a fairly loyal tennis fan, reading that, would be hard pressed to understand just what that hed might refer to (could it be sports? tennis, maybe?), much less

Howdy, everyone. I was happy to see so much good content when I logged onto my email yesterday, after another of those long days on the road. I went down to Miami on Monday to spend some time with Cliff Drysdale for a story that will run in Tennis magazine's

Rafael Nadal is back among the living, tennis-wise, and I’d say his rivals better watch out. Those gray shorts the 26-year-old King of Clay dons are long enough to resemble the “piratas” he favored during his remarkable rise to a grass- as well as clay-worthy champion, and top-ranked player. Earlier

If Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic were as good at baseball, basketball or just about any type of ‘football’ you care to choose, the fact that both left the Australian Open before the semifinal stage with infirm bodies would have had very little effect on their bank accounts. Contracts would

Doing nothing is not an option. But for millions of people around the world, this is what they are facing: nothing to do, nowhere to go. They get up every morning and face a void. It is unsustainable. As the coronavirus spreads around the globe, lockdowns, shelters and other methods

Many Americans heard the name “Paul, Weiss” for the first time in recent months. The New York law firm has been in the news—much more, surely, than it would like. First the company came under fire from Donald Trump; then it was buried in an avalanche of criticism for caving

On Friday, February 1, the Connecticut Open officially sold its sanction to APG, which will now hold the Premier tournament in Zhengzhou City, China from September 9 to 15. The event had previously been held in New Haven for 21 years. Tournament director Anne Worcester had been looking for a

The only way to do Rome and this tournament at the same time is to get up early. Today began at the ungodly hour of 7:00 A.M. (who knew there was such a thing?) and went something like — Warning: The entry below begins with much non-tennis-related content and other

Petra Kvitova is groggy. When she answers the phone at her home in Prostejov in the Czech Republic, she sounds as if she has been awakened from a deep slumber. “No, no,” she says with a slightly hazy chuckle. “I am just having a massage.” Then she laughs again, her