I kind of feel like—and everyone says it—tennis has a short memory. You focus so much on yourself and on your tournament that you honestly don’t care who is there in the locker room or not. Right now, everyone is crazy about their first rounds. Daniil Medvedev, No. 2 seed,

There's nothing like Paris in the springtime, they say. As these 10 epics—the 10 most memorable French Open matches of the Open Era—show, there's also nothing quite as stirring or sensation as tennis in Paris at this time of year. Williams has had few true rivals outside of her own

PARIS—Roger Federer says he got the final he wanted, and a lot of tennis fans did, too. The ancien regime is back, even if it was only out of power for one major. What we haven't seen in a while is Federer facing off in a Grand Slam final against

Recently I returned to the tennis court for the first time in 2014. Below, in perhaps slightly exaggerated form, is what my brain had to say to itself that day. I'm off the rest of this week, and will be back for the start of the European clay season in

When did athletes stop saying, “I’m going to give 110 percent today”? As anyone over the age of 30 will likely remember, that was the go-to pre-game cliché of the 1970s and 80s, uttered nearly as often as the eternal “We’re going to take it one game at a time.”

PARIS—Sloane Stephens will face Madison Keys in the semis in the French Open on Thursday. The two Americans are good friends, and the 25-year-old Stephens says that the 23-year-old Keys has grown up a lot. “I can't really comment on her being her own boss, but—I have seen her grow

In the last 20 years, only one man other than the Big 3 has been able to win multiple Grand Slam titles and reach No. 1 on the ATP rankings—that man is Andy Murray. Needless to say, he’s driven. And that drive has taken him to another incredible milestone today:

NEW YORK (AP) — Novak Djokovic gets why male tennis players from the United States are expected to win Grand Slam titles today, the way they did when Pete Sampras, Andre Agassi, John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors were around. And he gets — that's not to say he agrees with

We all know what Gary Lineker said about the sport that Americans call soccer. “Football is a simple game,” the former English striker said. “Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.” If we wanted to say something similar about men’s tennis

After two days in Singapore, each of the elite eight women at the WTA Finals has played a match. So far, I’d divide them into two camps: The ready and the not. For Flavia Pennetta, the Finals may have come a couple of months too late. She says this will

88842900 Holiday Greetings, everyone. We're in the middle of that long grind that now begins officially the day after Thanksgiving and ends abruptly, one day into the new year. Say what you want about how "soft" we've all grown - our sheer ability, as a species, to gut out the

*201106240946351690680-p2@stats_com by Pete Bodo On the face of it, you might say that the U.S. team dodged a bullet when Rafael Nadal decided to bypass a trip to Austin, TX., recusing himself from the year-long Spanish effort to recover the Davis Cup trophy they've held at various times for just

LONDON—Shall we say pistols at dawn? Or, in the case of the Wimbledon quarterfinal match between John Isner and Milos Raonic, Big Serves at Dusk. All parties knew this match was going to be a case of gunslinger tennis at its finest. Hold, hold, hold, hold—and then, starting at 4-all,

Maria Sharapova, who has re-taken the No. 1 ranking she lost four years ago when she injured her shoulder and had to undergo surgery, says that despite taking losses in big matches during her comeback, she always kept her chin up. Sharapova has not won a major since the 2008

Former No. 1 Lleyton Hewitt, who won the Kooyong exhibition tournament with victories over Milos Raonic, Tomas Berdych, and Juan Martin del Potro, says he’s feeling better than he has in years. The 31-year-old Aussie has undergone multiple surgeries and saw his ranking drop to No. 237 last year. Hewitt

Defending Australian Open champion Victoria Azarenka says Serena Williams is the player to beat this year in Melbourne. Williams has won the last two Grand Slam titles and beat Azarenka five times last year, including a three-set win in the U.S. Open final. "Yeah, I think so," said Azarenka, who

Belgian Davis Cup captain Johan Van Herck says David Goffin’s failure to serve out the match in his five-set defeat to Serbia’s Victor Troicki essentially killed his country's chances of winning. Goffin lost a two-set lead in the opening match of the tie, which Serbia went on to sweep, 3-0.

Maria Sharapova says she doesn’t try and spend time making friends on tour. Sharapova, who just won Rome, will travel to Paris with her fiancée Sasha Vujacic, her coach Thomas Hogstedt, her physical therapist Juan Reque and her hitting partner Cecil Mamiit. Sharapova’s mother Yelena, who traveled with her for

After her 7-5, 6-1 defeat to Serena Williams in the Stanford final, France’s Marion Bartoli says that the American is already one of the U.S. Open favorites. "She has really improved her level from Wimbledon," said Bartoli, who had taken down Serena at Wimbledon. "She beat [Maria] Sharapova and [Sabine]