The end of the marathon tennis season is here, which means the NBA season is heating up. It’s no secret that plenty of the pros would trade in their Zoom’s and Vapor’s for a fresh pair of Kyrie’s or Lebron’s. To celebrate the ballers, and lay rest the 2019 ATP

We’re still a week out from determining any winners at the 2022 Roland Garros, but rumor has it some other sports are handing out trophies this weekend—some may even have truly significant import, as appears will be the case following the UEFA Champions League final. Though the match—I’m told it’s

Another hard, hard week of typing has been brought to a merciful conclusion. It’s time for the semi-weekly trek to Burpcastle on 7th St. in Manhattan. It’s a Belgian bar that was once run by monks—you really can find anything in New York—but it’s better now that it's been sold

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11. Dropping the first three games, of her first match at Flushing Meadows, it seemed as if Gauff was battling nerves from being on one of the biggest stages in tennis. But she was able to relax and fight her way back to defeat Anastasia Potapova in three sets.

Five lessons from Roger Federer’s victory over Novak Djokovic. 1. SLOW DOWN BEFORE BIG POINTS* Novak Djokovic’s chance to win the first set of his first Grand Slam final came quickly, when three-time defend-ing U.S. Open champion Roger Federer was broken at 5-5 after he made two casual errors on

If not particularly surprising, it surely is sad to know that Roger Federer will not be playing any more tennis this year. A tweet he posted earlier today read, “A few weeks ago, having experienced a setback during my initial rehabilitation, I had to have an additional quick arthroscopic procedure

So what are the chances that you go 0-for-your-first-13 break points and still end up winning a best-of-three set tennis match? Not very good—unless the guy on the other side of the net is Mikhail Youzhny or someone with an equally unstable game. Juan Carlos Ferrero can tell you all

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) There's a reason why Lleyton Hewitt could keep tennis fans awake until after 4 in the morning, even when he was playing at home, years after winning Grand Slam titles in far-away New York or London. Hewitt contested every, single point. If he was smaller or less

Tennis Channel 2’s “Second Serve” show provides unique analysis of the game that you won’t find anywhere else. Live match reactions, entertaining stories being told, and even demonstrations from the former pros turned commentators in the studio. But perhaps the greatest asset to Second Serve is the unfiltered access the

Jon Levey answers your Gear Q&A. Email your question to tennis.comproshop@gmail.com. I’ve had arm troubles in the past, and always play with flexible racquets. I’ve always heard they’re easier on the arm. Recently I watched a video from a tennis influencer in which he claimed that his recent arm problems

UNSTRUNG: Del Potro Retires

In the popular imagination, or at least the American popular imagination, “Wimbledon” is synonymous with stiff-necked tradition. But that’s not the word that comes to mind as your taxi whips you up a narrow winding road and tosses you out in the center of the small suburban village that bears

LONDON—In every department store, at the public park, in your airports and your hotels and your schoolyards, there is a fitting spot that holds Jelena Ostapenko’s tennis game. It is known as the Lost and Found. The first seven games of Ostapenko’s round-of-16 encounter versus 50th-ranked Aliaksandra Sasnovich were a

Joella and I wrap up our discussion of Roger Federer today. You can find Part 1 here; Part II here; and Part III here. ** Joella, By now it's hard for many of us to remember that Federer was once a long-haired enthusiast of heavy metal and pro wrestling, an

There was a lot to like at Roland Garros on Sunday, a lot of great shots, a lot of sun, a lot of color, a lot of superb sunglasses, a lot of thin women with dark hair and white jeans passing in the other direction. But the highlight of the

In a way, it was only fitting that the second-round Australian Open match between Donald Young and Andreas Seppi was suspended at two sets apiece. Thanks to the invocation of the Extreme Heat Policy, the metaphorical “to be continued” sign was hung on the umpire’s chair. Isn’t “to be continued”

It’s nearly axiomatic that it takes a Grand Slam champion to put a new or resurgent tennis nation into the elite group of countries that can be described as tennis powers. You produce a Novak Djokovic and—bingo!—you soon have folks talking about Janko Tipsarevic (presently No. 9), Viktor Troicki (No.

These year-end award stories coming at us from all directions can get a little boring, so instead of handing out more accolades, let’s pass out some anti-awards, or smaccolades. Try not to get your shorts all in a bunch if your favorite player ends up on this list—we’re all human,

Usually how goes it in professional doubles is that the better team wins in a reasonably linear way. While classic serve-and-volley doubles is far less common in contemporary tennis, straightforward execution remains prevalent, be it with the everlasting presence of the crunching volley and, in recent decades, the ascent of