LONDON—Whatever happens with the weather today, the air felt good while I was walking down my quiet, S-shaped village street to get the papers this morning. The customary clouds, the streets with last night’s rain still on them, the easy-swirling breeze: It may officially be summer, but this is the

The game starts with the serve, literally, figuratively, and every which way. From the structure of the rallies to the confidence of the person hitting the serve, it all flows from there. “Flow,” however, was not a word that used to come to mind when you thought of Novak Djokovic’s

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Tennis fans may have found themselves wondering about Roger Federer this past weekend: Are there any praises left to sing? Is there anything left to be impressed by? Is there any reason to watch? He certainly looked motivated to put a quick end to any speculation about his relative decline.

There’s something special, some extra tension in the air, when you know that a match is the only one being played at that moment. Like Monday Night Football, it’s part of what accounts for the excitement surrounding the night matches at Flushing Meadows and Melbourne Park every year. It’s also

[In Pete's absence, we are repeating some "Classic" TW posts from earlier times. Some discussions that have been going on in TW recently got me thinking about this post, originally titled 'a Night of Historical Importance', written by Pete during the 2006 US Open, on the night that the USTA

Tennis players of a certain age might remember hearing tall tales about the practice habits of legendary grinders like Bjorn Borg and Mary Joe Fernandez. “I heard Borg spends one week hitting crosscourt, and the next week hitting down the line,” or “Mary Joe has to make a thousand shots

MELBOURNE—Once this year's Australian Open climbed out of its swampy first days, it was a tournament to cheer, with a new surprise in store each day of the second week. If its two singles finals were underwhelming and unfortunate, in that order, its champions were anything but. Li Na and

What is it like to be the flagship player for a brand looking to break into the tennis space? For Petra Martić, it’s an opportunity she’s welcomed with wide open arms. Now in her second season with J.Lindeberg, a Swedish-based company founded by designer Johan Lindeberg in 1996, the Croatian

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STUTTGART—What could underwear, ice cream and a fire extinguisher all have in common? For Stefanos Tsitsipas, these items marked his first three orders of business in Stuttgart. After accepting singles and doubles wild cards into this week’s BOSS Open, an ATP 250-level event on grass, Tsitsipas arrived on Saturday. Having

Alexander Zverev’s early-season struggles continued on Friday as the No. 1 seed lost a dramatic three-setter to Cristian Garin in the quarterfinals of the BMW Open in Munich, 6-4, 5-7, 7-5. With the loss, Zverev will lose his No. 3 ranking on Monday to Roger Federer. Zverev, who was the

Feliciano Lopez holds the distinction of being the only left-handed player to have beaten Rafael Nadal twice, but he came up some distance short of his best form today as Nadal eased into the quarterfinals, 6-4, 6-4, 6-2. Lopez has never managed to take a set off Nadal on hard

Bernard Tomic is again questioning his own desire for the game, saying he got a "little bit bored" during a straight-sets defeat to Mischa Zverev at Wimbledon. “Just couldn't find any rhythm and, you know, wasn't mentally and physically there with my mental state to perform,” Tomic said. “I don't

Belinda Bencic says she is still experiencing left wrist problems after falling in the first round of the WTA tournament Biel to Carina Witthoeft. Bencic has won just one singles match this season in seven WTA tournaments, and had another singles win in a Fed Cup tie. "I made too

Tennis royalty met soccer royalty on the opening night of the 'Six Kings Slam' exhibition event in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, as Brazilian forward Neymar was among the fans in attendance to watch Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner debut victorious in the competition. Alcaraz and Sinner's wins set up

No. 4: When Frances Tiafoe’s funky fits made you do a double-take With his beaming smile and joyful laughter, it's not hard to spot Frances Tiafoe at any tennis club. And even more so in 2023, which saw the 25-year-old return to the winners circle for the first time in

INDIAN WELLS, CALIF.—Last year it was Roger Federer who made the long walk out to Stadium 2 to give the masses their close-range glimpse of immortality, their chance to tell their grandchildren that they’d seen greatness from a few feet away. This being Indian Wells, most of them could drive

Was she retiring? Was she ill? Was she rolling out a new line of athlete-approved candy? Speculation grew frenzied as Maria Sharapova walked across what she would later call a “fairly ugly carpet” and stepped to the microphone in a Los Angeles hotel ballroom on Monday. But as she unfolded

It’s still possible, at least theoretically, to make a case that tennis isn't a good fit for the Olympics, though you won’t read it in this column—if the Games are good enough for Serena Williams andRoger Federer (and Rafa and Novak and pretty much every other player), they’re good enough