By TW Contributing Writer, Asad Raza *[[Mornin', everyone. Well, it was one hail of a virtual Holiday party last night, thanks for dropping by. I'm on my way to Florida but I thought, "What better way to get you all juiced up than by publishing a Greatest Hits piece that

Hi Joel, With Madrid just finished and Rome just starting, this seems like a good moment to take stock of what we’ve seen so far during the clay season. I’ll begin by noting that, for me, one of the highlights of Madrid is seeing the camera linger on a face

Skidding retrieval marks scrawled across the red clay won't be the only streaks in Monte Carlo on Sunday. Winning streaks collide in the final as Novak Djokovic bids to win his eighth straight match against Rafael Nadal (all in finals), while the reigning champion aims to claim his eighth consecutive

NEW YORK(AP) Dissed, then dismissed. Pushed off the main U.S. Open stadium for her late-night match Saturday because of time concerns, No. 1 Dinara Safina lost in the third round at Flushing Meadows, upset by 72nd-ranked Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 (5). Ahead 6-5 in the

PARIS (AP) Rafael Nadal didn't exactly put his doubters to rest despite reaching the third round at the French Open with a straight-sets victory. The five-time champion, who needed all five sets in the first round, looked shaky again Thursday at Roland Garros but still managed to advance by beating

WASHINGTON (AP) — Liudmila Samsonova hit 10 aces and won her second career WTA title by coming back to beat sixth-seeded Kaia Kanepi 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 at the Citi Open on Sunday. Samsonova is a 23-year-old Russian currently ranked 60th after needing to sit out part of the season, including

WATCH: Tennis Channel Live on Coco Gauff's tough WTA Finals debut

Top-ranked Ashleigh Barty capped off her tremendous 2019 WTA season of firsts to win the largest purse in tennis history on Sunday, defeating defending champion Elina Svitolina, 6-4, 6-3, at the Shiseido WTA Finals Shenzhen to pick up her fourth title of the year and a $4.42 million prize money

Each day during the US Open, we'll preview and predict three—in this case, four—must-see matches. Pablo Carreño Busta [12] vs. Diego Schwartzman [29] Schwartzman is looking forward to his first US Open quarterfinal in part because it’s the first chance he’s going to have to play his good friend, Carreño

WORCESTER, Mass. (AP)—Venus Williams returned from a five-month layoff and Serena Williams and Christina McHale won singles matches Sunday, sending the United States past Belarus 5-0 in the first round of the Fed Cup. By blanking Belarus in World Group II, the Americans head to a playoff in April in

WIMBLEDON, England—Is Andy Murray ready for his close-up? As far as rehearsals go, today’s climate-controlled third-rounder provided a nice test, even if it was against the lowest seed in the draw, Tommy Robredo. Murray was far and away the biggest men’s name on today’s schedule, and for the first two

Roger Federer (SUI) - ATP No. 7, UTR No. 5 (15.84) Borna Coric (CRO) - ATP No. 13, UTR No. 12 (15.56) Borna Coric has now squeaked out three consecutive third-set tiebreakers to advance to the semifinals. Heading into this blockbuster meeting with Roger Federer, his confidence should be near

PARIS (AP) The next player facing Novak Djokovic as he seeks to win the French Open for the first time is an opponent he's never played before. Thanasi Kokkinakis, who turned 19 last month, is one of two teenagers looking to reach the fourth round. The 84th-ranked Australian has never

MIAMI, Fla.—It was a day of wild and wooly tennis on Key Biscayne, during which a major assumption about the game took it on the chin. You’d think the semifinalists in a Masters 1000 tournament would be the kind to tend to their service games and punch a ticket to

PARIS (AP) After a much-debated call in her French Open loss to Serena Williams, Victoria Azarenka suggested that perhaps it's time for full-on instant replay to be used in tennis - beyond simply the Hawk-Eye line-calling technology used at other tournaments. ''Sometimes we need to have a review,'' Azarenka said,

NEW YORK—The largest Grand Slam stage in the world sounded like an echo chamber tonight, as Novak Djokovic repeatedly ripped heavy groundstrokes that bounded off the blue back wall with a dispiriting thud. Paolo Lorenzi spent much of the match in chase mode so far behind the baseline, he could

Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal rarely play each other in exhibitions, so it was difficult to know what to expect before they met in Zurich on Tuesday night. In this reporter’s mind, the over/under on shots hit between the legs during the match was two—probably one by each of the

Having won the three biggest tournaments played this season, in Melbourne, Indian Wells and Miami, Roger Federer is looking ahead and says he will concentrate on grass and hardcourt tournaments as opposed to those on clay. After defeating Rafael Nadal to win Miami, Federer told ESPN in a courtside interview

This week, for the duration of the Madrid Masters tournament, I'll be joined by a very special guest, Juan José Vallejo (you may know him as J.J. from Pete's Tennis World). He's watching the event with the aid of some outstanding coverage on ESPN in Argentina, and will give us

(Ed. note - I'm off to Fort Lauderdale in a few hours, but I wanted to get this post up before I left. When I heard that Matt Van Tuinen,, one of my favorite PR guys in tennis, is going to be working with Venus and Serena Williams on their