What will tennis do without Roger Federer? That’s an issue the sport will have to deal with over the next few years. This week, though, there was a more pressing version of the same question: What will Federer’s hometown tournament, the Swiss Indoors in Basel, do without him? As a

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif—On this first day of November, a Tuesday afternoon inside Dogpound WeHo—a West Hollywood fitness center—Ajla Tomljanovic is reflecting on how she’s improved. The day before, Tomljanovic had attained a career-high ranking of 33 in the world. Prior to 2021 Wimbledon, she’d played 26 majors and only once

MASON, Ohio (AP) — Rafael Nadal and Karolina Pliskova — the No. 1 seeds in the Western & Southern Open — advanced with straight-set wins Wednesday, while the rest of their brackets suffered more top losses. Nadal sat out an hour-long rain delay and beat Richard Gasquet 6-3, 6-4 on

NEW YORK—They exchanged sets, then they exchanged breaks. **And at the end of a compelling and competitive decider, they exchanged victories. Serena Williams atoned for her loss to Maria Sakkari at the Western & Southern Open—a match held two weeks earlier in Flushing Meadows, and a match that saw the

You know, promotions, even at their hokiest, do seem to work. A couple of weeks ago I was musing about whether year-end championships in general were closer to exhibitions than meaningful events, and how the fact that they come so late in the year, so far removed from the majors,

source: APARC Ernests Gulbis, of Latvia returns the ball to Juan Monaco, of Argentina, at the Miami Open tennis tournament in Key Biscayne, Fla., Saturday, March 28, 2015. Monaco won 6-2 6-4. (AP Photo/Joel Auerbach) MONACO (AP) Switching to clay did not make any difference for Ernests Gulbis. The 13th-seeded

Note from Pete: Wait until you get a load of what Miguel Seabra has for us from Estoril today! Thanks, Mikey: Quarter-finals day here – and there’s been a flock of visitors coming over all the way from neighbouring Spain to check on their players, who usually do well here.

Pic2 Grand Slam editions of this regular TennisWorld feature are maddening, simply because so much happens during the momentous two weeks of a major. As always, I'm not even going to try to cover all the bases, and hope I can come up with one or two surprises for you

If you’re like me, you’ve already read a few best-of lists for tennis in 2005. If you’re like me, you also enjoy these kinds of things. So here’s one more before I take the next couple of weeks off. I’ll be back with a 2006 preview column on December 30.

So after all of the controversy, the blue clay turns out to be . . . boring and conventional? My initial glimpses of it over the last few weeks had made it seem like a cool novelty—“Wow, the clay is a different color.” But after three hours of watching actual

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) Yanking off a sneaker with pink accents and purple laces, Serena Williams revealed the scar that starts atop her right foot and meanders up her leg. It's a jagged, several-inch remnant - and always-there reminder - of two operations to repair the damage Williams did when cut

WATCH: Halep edged through a nearly three-hour epic over Golubic to reach the final four.

WATCH: Alcaraz continues to redefine the word "hype" with his textbook-defying tennis in 2022.

If Andrey Rublev were a boxer, Mike Tyson would likely have been his pugilistic role model. The Russian is always jabbing, always driving forward, always working his opponent’s body with short, sharp punches. No motion is wasted in his strokes, and no time is wasted doing anything but attacking. He

Melbourne, Australia (AP)—The stars of yesterday keep popping up at the Australian Open. Most of the familiar faces are old players back in action as new coaches. Not 41-year-old Pat Rafter. After a decade of retirement, the Australian two-time Grand Slam winner dusted off his tennis skills to try his

As far as U.S fans are concerned, Boris Becker and Pete Sampras had a stealth rivalry. While they played 19 times, with Sampras winning 12 of those matches, all but two took place in Europe. And most were during the fall indoor season, which is the least-watched part of the

PARIS (AP) — The Latest on the French Open (all times local): ___ 11:25 p.m. Rafael Nadal's record against Richard Gasquet improved to 17-0 as he reached the third round of the French Open with a 6-0, 7-5, 6-2 win. The defending champion improved his Roland Garros record to 102-2

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The first week of a new season is a mad scramble, as everyone tries to get their reps in before the Australian Open. But things typically slow up considerably in the second week, as most of the major-title contenders hunker down with their practice teams in Melbourne. But this is

This past week, Lorenzo Musetti had a first-time appearance at the Italian Open any player would dream of, beating two former top-four players in Stan Wawrinka and Kei Nishikori in consecutive matches to reach the round of 16.