WATCH: Iga Swiatek claimed her fourth Grand Slam title with a win over Karolina Muchova in Saturday's Roland Garros final.

We were free. Our parents had gone to South America for three weeks. I was 12 years old, my older brother 16. By the time the housekeeper came, seven days after our moment of liberation, the house was strewn with pizza boxes, sandwich wrappers, unopened mail, laundry galore, dirty dishes,

Hi Steve, Yes, tennis is bigger in Montreal than in Toronto, but I have to say the grounds were packed yesterday and all the upper-stands tickets were sold out before 12:30. Maybe it's because Monday was a holiday, or maybe this tennis thing is catching on. It's funny that you

“This sport can be so cruel,” Sue Barker said to Andy Roddick to start her post-match interview with him on Centre Court. Roddick was having none of that sappy nonsense, of course. In the days afterward, however, I realized that she had a point. Everyone I talked to about the

Tennis writers are always “learning” things. We like to tell you about the “five things we learned” at this event or that event. But what if what we discovered this week contradicts what we found out last week? In Indian Wells, we learned that Roger Federer can still win spring

The two most prominent and hopeful storylines in women’s tennis collided on Sunday in Stuttgart. One of those stories—how long will it take Justine Henin to get back in the winner’s circle?—we fully expected to be following as the year began. The other—is Slammin’ Sammy Stosur really as slammin’ as

The Rally returns today, with a discussion between freelance tennis writer Kamakshi Tandon and I on the 2016 season that just was. Below is the first of three parts. Hi Kamakshi, We’ve done it. We’ve made it all the way to another offseason. Or off-month, anyway. That’s still a ridiculously

You’ve got to love Russia. Okay, so you don’t have' to love the late Joe Stalin, or the late, bad old Soviet Union, or the present Russian dope-and-prostitution mobs, or even the current president of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin. But their tennis players? Can you show me a more

NEW YORK—While wild reports circulated of a tornado touching down nearby in Queens, and the massive oaks lining the promenade between the South Gate of the National Tennis Center and the iconic Unisphere swayed and groaned in the wind, Tomas Berdych and Andy Murray played a match under what might

These are heady days for a soon to be 33-year-old American tennis player who has long been admired for the depth of his devotion to the game he plays for a living, and the scope of his ambitions. He is a fellow held in high esteem among his colleagues, an

For those who still miss the slam-bang men’s tennis of the 20th century, Sunday’s final between Hubert Hurkacz and Andrey Rublev in Shanghai was the throwback rock fight for you. The Russian and the Pole battled all the way to 10-8 in a third-set tiebreak, but they finished in just

PARIS—Moments. Places. People. In tennis, this troika sparkles most brilliantly at the majors. But not always in the ways commonly expected. Just walk, smell, look, listen. This year’s French Open has now reached the quarterfinal stage. Soon enough, Court Philippe Chatrier and Court Suzanne Lenglen will be the site for

For a few years there will be a lot of, like, ‘Wow, so this is what Roland Garros is going to be like in the post-Rafael Nadal era.’ Tennis Channel analyst Pam Shriver, trying to imagine what the French Open might look and feel like should 14-time champion Nadal no

Thanksgiving asks us to be thankful on command, which isn’t all that easy. When I walked down the street this morning, was I as thankful as I should have been for that last yellow leaf hanging from an otherwise barren tree on my block? Probably not—once it’s gone, after all,

Messy, up and down, briefly brilliant, at times hard to make sense of, at other times totally predictable, and a dogfight throughout, the last match of the women’s season was a microcosm of the WTA year as a whole. Kim Clijsters, having not played at all since the U.S. Open,

PARIS—New day, new sun, new crowd: That was all it took to bring out the old Novak Djokovic. This was the one we’ve gotten used to seeing in 2011, the man with all the answers, the guy with the meticulous footwork and technique, who can make a sliding get on

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — This is what went through Andy Murray's mind while catching some of Novak Djokovic's French Open semifinal clash with Rafael Nadal on TV: "There's a bit of me that's jealous watching that. Like, I would love to be playing in those matches," Murray said recently. "I

[Ed. Note: Peter Bodo is on vacation until March 5th. In his absence, we are proud to present TennisWorld's Greatest Hits (and Misses). We hope you'll find these entries as relevant today as when they were originally posted. --S.] DATE: 8/27/2006

NEW YORK—When Novak Djokovic more or less ran the table in 2011, most of us wondered if he wasn’t heralding the dawn of a new era in tennis. The way he manhandled Rafael Nadal in particular that year seemed to be a game-changer. Djokovic overwhelmed Nadal in six consecutive meetings

Angelique Kerber played her first official WTA match as a Grand Slam champion in Doha earlier this week, and a fan expecting a spectacular show could be forgiven for asking for her money back. Kerber, the top seed, lost to Zheng Saisai of China—a woman ranked 71 spots below her,