Top-seeded Serena Williams underwent an interesting transformation in her quarterfinal with Ana Ivanovic at Stanford tonight. Starting out, she was the unsure, out-of-sync, almost morose champion we’ve seen all too often this year. In the ensuing hour and 57 minutes, though, she transformed herself into the combative, fearless, alpha female

Going into the final set on Court Philippe Chatrier today, Gilles Simon was 7-5 in five-set matches over the length of his career. Good, if not great. But it was more to go on than the record of his opponent, Brian Baker. The 27-year-old American human-interest story had never played

by Pete Bodo I guess it figures. We have a brief lull before the beginning of the ATP World Tour Finals and all of a sudden we're awash in news—not Hewitt def. Fognini, 6-1, 6-2 news, but news of broad and general interest, like the fact that the USTA is

LjubicicBy TennisWorld Senior Contributing Editor Andrew Burton This is my fifth year in a row visiting Indian Wells, and I feel like I've got the first Saturday down to a fine art. Direct flight from Calgary: one of the more interesting plane approaches to an airport, skimming low through

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP)—Three cities in Texas and two in California are among 11 sites that have signaled an intent to bid for the right to host the Fed Cup final between the U.S. and Italy. Joining Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio, Pacific Palisades and San Diego in indicating they

Daniil Medvedev is happy to entertain fans on the tennis court but is drawing the line at kind of 24/7 access Carlos Alcaraz gave to create his self-titled Netflix docuseries. Though Medvedev and Alcaraz participated in Break Point, an ensemble reality series that ran two seasons on the popular streaming

Roger Federer certainly seems to be the flavor de jour, partly because of his blog. I've found the blog interesting, but less for its contents (which are amusing enough) than for its sensibility. The Mighty Fed - UN Ambassador, James Bond impersonator, prankster, toilet connoisseur, budding interior decorator, Name-taking, butt-kicking

News, gossip and other items of interest from the world of tennis: **Ankling for an Injury In her new memoir, On the Line (due in bookstores September 1), Serena Williams reveals that her 2003 left knee injury—the one that required surgery and knocked her out of tennis for eight months—was

Going into the final set on Court Philipp Chatrier today, Gilles Simon was 7-5 in five set matches over the length of his career. Good, if not great. But it was more to go on than the record of his opponent, Brian Baker. The 27-year old American human-interest story had

I've been wanting to write a travel post about my recent New Year's trip to Texas. This is my last chance, really, with the Aussie Open looming. So here's one last pre-tournament respite from tennis, for anyone interested. My men's preview is on the home page; feel free to comment

It’s interesting that she chose to post the video. It’s kind of like, does that send a message, now that all these peers who were playing the tour at the same time as her are coming back? Pam Shriver, Tennis Channel analyst and coach, reacting to the brief video Barty

WIMBLEDON, England—Interested in becoming a sports columnist? Forget journalism school, forget college, drop out of high school if you can. The only thing you need to do is this: Learn to use the word bestride in a sentence. Bestride, bestrode, bestriding: You might as well practice conjugating it for a

Things are just heating up in Paris today, but it's already been an interesting and somewhat appropriate day for U.S. players and fans. I say "appropriate" because these days, American tennis is trending toward the "glass half-empty/glass half-full" theme. Andy Roddick continues to be a threat to his rivals near

After winning the first four editions of the Laver Cup, Team Europe last year lost the title for the first time. Naturally, captain Bjorn Borg is eager to reclaim it. Here's who will compete in Vancouver in blue.

A lot of words were said at this year's US Open. After three weeks of every-sense-of-the-word torrid tennis, here are the best, most interesting and/or insightful quotes from the players – plus more observers – at this final major event of 2018. 1 First, a Eugenie Bouchard instant classic:

Given some of the issues we've been talking about these past few days, I thought it might be interesting to post the essay I wrote for the current issue of Tennis, as it doesn't appear at the magazine's website. This essay was part of a big package we did on

20120731_bodoby Pete Bodo For some reason, my index finger keeps wanting to type the letter s. . .s . . s. . ., over and over. Lots of interesting words begin with "s," including "serve," which for our purposes can be defined as: A shot used to start any given

News, gossip and other items of interest from the world of tennis: **Shaq’ing Up Shaquille O’Neal is starring in a new reality TV series called Shaq Vs., which begins August 18 on ABC. During each episode, the NBA great competes against other sports greats…at their own game. Crazy! He’ll toss