SW34 is TENNIS.com's Wimbledon blog that will provide on-site news, insight and commentary about a pair of legendary 34-year-olds, Roger Federer and Serena Williams, as they look to once again triumph at the All England Club. LONDON—On Tuesday at Wimbledon, top seed Serena Williams served her way into the semifinals

LONDON (AP) Marcus Willis originally was scheduled to spend Monday teaching tennis to a group of 5-to-10-year-old kids, among others, at Warwick Boat Club in central England. Instead, Willis wound up with grander, and more lucrative, plans: playing - and winning! - a match at Wimbledon. And on Wednesday, Willis'

KEY BISCAYNE, Fla.—Timea Bacsinszky’s lucky charm isn’t a keychain or necklace—it’s World Cup champion skier Lara Gut. That’s just how top Swiss athletes roll. On Tuesday, with Gut sitting in her player box, Bacsinszky kept her hopes for a Miami Open title alive by knocking off Simona Halep, 4-6, 6-3,

On Tuesday, Andy Murray announced that the Paris Olympics would be the final tennis tournament of his career, and to celebrate his legacy we’ve been counting down five of his most amazing career stats, one a day, until the tournament starts. So far, we’ve covered how he became the first

NEW YORK—Grigor Dimitrov is tired of being called a veteran. Think of him as a “young 33.” “I like that!” the No. 9 seed said when hearing the descriptor in his post-match press conference. “That’s cool.” Into the third round of the 2024 US Open—his 56th Grand Slam main draw—the

NEW YORK—The great race to become the first American in 18 years to play a US Open final entered the home stretch on this cool Friday evening in Arthur Ashe Stadium with Frances Tiafoe ahead of Taylor Fritz by the equivalent of a single car length. But after three-and-a-half sets,

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) Novak Djokovic is on the path to greatness, and one way to fully grasp that is to focus not on his many successes but instead on a setback. Indeed, for all of his accomplishments already in 2011 - rising to the No. 1 ranking Monday; two Grand

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Novak Djokovic was still in the first set of his Australian Open quarterfinal against Andrey Rublev when the guy who would face the winner of that match, Tommy Paul, sat down for a news conference. "Probably have a better chance of winning if it's Rublev," Paul

NEW YORK—The great irony of this year’s US Open, held at the largest public tennis facility in the world, is how private it is. Privacy is coveted in this city of more than 8 million—it always has been, but particularly during the pandemic—from where its denizens live to the doors

NEW YORK—It was 9:55 a.m. this morning when Coco Gauff entered Arthur Ashe Stadium, keen to hit balls on the biggest court in tennis for the first time in her life. Rafael Nadal had begun the last five minutes of his practice session. As Gauff dropped her racquet bag on

If you go to the Australian Open website and look at the online commentary for yesterday’s match between Ann Li of the U.S. and Shuai Zhang of China, you’ll notice a pattern to the way the points are described. It goes roughly like this: A. Li hits a forehand winner

At the age of 13, he tagged a serve at 130 m.p.h. under the eye of a radar gun at the prestigious European junior tournament, Les Petits As. He won Orange Bowl championships in two youth divisions (12 and 14), battling the likes of friends that included Frances Tiafoe and

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Roger Federer, for one, figures questions about whether Rafael Nadal or Novak Djokovic — or both? — will surpass his men's record for most Grand Slam singles titles are moot. That's because he's sure it's going to happen. And he's OK with that. Ending

NEW YORK (AP) — The events and the arguing and the booing that would make this a U.S. Open final unlike any other began when Serena Williams' coach made what she insisted was an innocent thumbs-up, but the chair umpire interpreted as a helpful signal. It was the second game

LONDON (AP) — At 7:30 a.m. each day of the Wimbledon fortnight, hours before competition begins, the keepers of the grass gather to meticulously prepare the tournament's hallowed courts for play. Dozens of people spread out around the All England Club grounds to mow, paint and mop — yes, with

NEW YORK—For three hours on Saturday, tennis fans around the world played a long game of “Waiting for Nole” together. Those of us who had watched him on semifinal Saturday at the U.S. Open for the last four years were pretty sure that, even if it took him five sets

“Anything can happen”: We hear those words a lot in sports, but they haven’t come true very often in tennis in recent years. This season, in which the Top 4 men split the four majors and the Top 3 women did the same, was the least chaotic in recent memory.

This March, in a match against Ivo Karlovic in Indian Wells, Jack Sock bounced an overhead out of court and into the stands. A fan picked the ball up and quickly thew it back. Quickly, and with comical precision: His toss hit Karlovic, who hadn't turned around to see where

Has the men’s game, after a long, slow climb out of the muck and mire of the McEnroe-Connors era, reached a new summit of sportsmanship? The clay season, with its typically civilized discussions of ball marks, always highlights this for me. There will continue to be jerks, tools, tricksters, tension

MELBOURNE—On American TV and in professional tennis, 2013 has been about the return of the girls. First, the hip HBO series of that name began its second season, accompanied by another avalanche of media analysis. This week the girls of the WTA have been one of the big stories of