Thank God for Jon Wertheim. Novak Djokovic's season apparently didn't bellow loudly enough for the powers that be at Sports Illustrated to award him their Sportsman of the Year distinction. Instead, that went to NCAA basketball coaches Pat Summitt and Mike Krzyzewski, respectively. Both are admittedly titans of their field,

The Bryan brothers keep rolling, while some Fed Cup ties went the distance. It’s all here in Doubles Take. ANOTHER MASTERFUL PERFORMANCE In 2017, Bob and Mike Bryan failed to win an ATP Masters 1000 title for the first time since 2004. This year, it appears they’re determined to put

Mornin', Tribe. By noon today, I'll be on a plane heading for Texas, where I'll be exploring the Texas Hill Country, doing a little deer hunting, and finishing up Pete Sampras's autobiography. I'll be hooking up there with Mike P., a long-term, regular TW reader with whom I've had an

It’s almost time for the last tour event of the season, the ATP Finals. Doubles Take previews the action. Last year at the season-ending championships on the ATP Tour, Jack Sock and Mike Bryan capped a dream season for a “scratch” pairing by winning the title in London, their third

NEW YORK (AP) -- Bob and Mike Bryan will play for a fourth U.S. Open title. The American twins beat Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi of Pakistan and Jean-Julien Rojer of the Netherlands 6-3, 6-4 in the semifinals Thursday. The second-seeded Bryans, who have won 11 Grand Slam championships, will face fifth-seeded Leander

ATLANTA (AP)—Jack Sock beat Alejandro Gonzalez 6-2, 6-4 in the first round of the BB&T Atlanta Open on Tuesday. Sock and partner Vasek Popisil won the doubles title at Wimbledon earlier this month, upsetting the top-ranked team of Mike and Bob Bryan in the finals. The 21-year-old Sock said doubles

The Australian Open's player ride-along promotion, Kia Open Drive 2013, turned in another share of amusing if not vocally astounding karaoke performances this time around the block. Pros who took part included freshly crowned men's doubles champs Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan, Jelena Jankovic, Fernando Verdasco, Janko Tipsarevic, Svetlana Kuznetsova,

DUESSELDORF, Germany(AP) John Isner and Sam Querrey beat Carsten Ball and Paul Hanley in doubles Monday to give the United States a 2-1 victory over Australia at the World Team Cup. With brothers Bob and Mike Bryan still en route from Madrid after claiming their record-tying 61st doubles title, the

Your local tennis court will probably be seeing more action than usual this summer—and it’s not because the pickleball players are taking over. According to an analysis of Google search data conducted by Venture Smarter, queries for “adult tennis lessons” have skyrocketed 245 percent worldwide—that’s over three times the average

SEATTLE — Leave it up to Seattle to bring rock ‘n roll energy to Roger Federer’s Match for Africa 4. The Swiss Maestro brought his 18-Grand Slam winning game to the Emerald City for exhibition matches featuring Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready and American ace king

USTA Player Development chief Patrick McEnroe responds to notable coach Wayne Bryan’s much-circulated letter that criticizes new junior tennis initiatives and USTA Player Development for a myriad of reasons. Bryan is the coach of the world No. 1 doubles team of Bob and Mike Bryan, whom McEnroe was the captain

DUESSELDORF, Germany (AP)—John Isner and Sam Querrey beat Carsten Ball and Paul Hanley in doubles Monday to give the United States a 2-1 victory over Australia at the World Team Cup. With brothers Bob and Mike Bryan still en route from Madrid after claiming their record-tying 61st doubles title, the

SAN DIEGO (AP)—Bob and Mike Bryan beat Dominic Inglot and Colin Fleming 6-2, 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 Saturday to pull the United States to 2-1 against Britain in the first round of the Davis Cup. The Bryans, identical twins who are from Camarillo in Ventura County, breezed through the fourth set

“In your face” was one of the mantras of the 1980s. This unsubtle era was bent on erasing all vestiges of the touchy-feely decades that had preceded it. The 80s gave us Mike Tyson, they gave us NWA, they voted Margaret Thatcher their MVP. You might have thought the ivory-towered

Today marks the debut of a new video-podcast series, Good Trouble with Nick Kyrgios. In it, the inimitable Australian sits down with notables from athletics, entertainment, media, lifestyle, arts and beyond—guests include Frances Tiafoe, Naomi Osaka, Rainn Wilson, Gary Vaynerchuk and Mike Tyson, among others—for wide-ranging conversations about how they,

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) Ivan Dodig and Marin Cilic kept Croatia alive in the Davis Cup quarterfinal match with the United States, beating twins Bob and Mike Bryan 6-2, 2-6, 6-2, 6-4 on Saturday. Dodig and Cilic cut Croatia's deficit to 2-1 heading into the reverse single Sunday on the Tualatin

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FLASHBACK: The Bryan brothers won the last title of their careers in Delray Beach in 2020.

For sheer quantity of news, nothing in sports beats the opening days of a Grand Slam. A five-set classic is upstaged minutes later by a curse word caught on a courtside mike; a major upset is quickly forgotten after a top seed has to be strapped to an IV. And