Following his win over Daniil Medvedev in the semifinals of the US Open, Dominic Thiem confessed that he didn’t like tiebreakers. But this evening, the 27-year-old Austrian navigated them well enough to earn the most intriguing of outcomes, a straight-sets nail-biter. Fighting off set points in each of the last

For the Nadal vs. Murray semifinal preview, click here. NEW YORK—Whatever else may obtain on the eve of the U.S. Open semifinal clash between Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic, this much is certain: Federer is beautifully positioned to collect a little New York-style payback, and to emerge at the end

Are you ready for the Great Depression, Part Deux? Will we soon be standing in soup lines at Trader Joe’s and doing the Charleston all night to keep the blues away? That last thought may not be as terrible as it sounds. The dances of the 1930s gave us the

PARIS—We’ve heard a lot about the golden era of 1970s tennis lately. I personally like the name “roughneck era,” as coined by one of the sport’s more conservative historians, but "golden" works, too. In the popular American imagination, anyway, those were the years was when the sport was at its

PARIS—The French Open is the only Grand Slam that begins on a Sunday. By this point in the tournament you can feel the effect of having cleared those early matches out of the way. Yesterday, with cooler, grayer weather replacing the hot sun from the beginning of the week, there

For the first week of Roland Garros I'll be exchanging emails with TENNIS Magazine senior editor Jon Levey, who's in Paris to cover the tournament. Jon, Nick, Nick, Nick [Editor’s note: In real life Jon and Steve, like Woody Allen and his old buddy in "Annie Hall," refer to each

NEW YORK (AP)—Facing two match points against a beloved player whose name is already in the history books, Novak Djokovic clenched his jaw, nodded his head and flashed an ever-so-slight glimpse of a smile. “I would lie if I say I didn’t think I’m going to lose,” Djokovic said. Might

Coco Gauff vs. Belinda Bencic Bencic has only played Gauff twice, but she saw a fair amount of her over the past year, while she was away having a baby. “I was able to watch her a little bit when I was just lying on the couch for the last

There are times in tennis where there are simply no words, even for all of the journalists that cover the sport. Few players have left fans more frequently breathless in almost three decades on tour than Serena Williams, who made a regal entrance into her campaign for a 24th Grand

LONDON (AP) The Latest from Wimbledon (all times local): 8:20 p.m. Serena and Venus Williams won their sixth Wimbledon doubles championship and 14th Grand Slam title as a pair, defeating fifth-seeded Timea Babos of Hungary and Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan 6-3, 6-4. Serena heads home from the All England Club

Pic by Pete Bodo They're trickling into Montreal, even as I write this—coming in under cover of night, with little fanfare, as they always do. It's true of the top stars as well as the spear carriers and desperate fellas trying to keep a toehold in that vaunted, good-as-gold direct-entry

Svetlana Kuznetsova had won the first set from Elena Vesnina, 8-6 in a tiebreaker, on a lucky net-cord winner. She had broken her demoralized opponent to start the second set, and was now up 3-1 and serving at 40-15. Kuznetsova had won 17 WTA singles titles during her 14-year career;

Luxembourg, Seoul, Gangzhou, Palermo, Mumbai, Tashkent, Stuttgart, Bangkok, Tokyo, Metz, Moscow, Vienna, Stockholm, Bangkok again. While it may sound like a verse from that old post-disco non-classic “Pop Muzik” (worst song ever?), it's actually a list of the sites visited by pro tennis players in just the last three weeks.

Senior editor Richard Pagliaro breaks down the weekend's matches and predicts the tournament winners. WTA Stuttgart (Semifinals): Victoria Azarenka vs. Agnieszka Radwanska; Maria Sharapova vs. Petra Kvitova The stars aligned in Stuttgart, as the world's top four players reached a WTA semifinal for the first time since 2009. In the

MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina—Spain's Davis Cup victory Sunday signaled emphatically to the tennis world that the team can win on any surface, in any situation, against any opponent. This year's final was heralded as a clash of tennis titans with a potential historical first on the line – a first

JOHNS CREEK, Ga.(AP) John Isner wants to prove he's more than a marathon man on the ATP tour. Preparing for his first event since taking three days, 183 games and over 11 hours at Wimbledon to beat Nicolas Mahut of France, Isner has adjusted to a new public life. `Yeah,

After more than a week of lies, hypocrisy, partisan bickering, bureaucratic bumbling and the inevitably idiotic comparison to the crucifixion of Jesus — by his own father, no less — the Novak Djokovic story still boils down to this: He threw away a chance to make history at the Australian

I don’t know if Amelie Mauresmo is going to win this tournament or not. She could play like a lioness (Is that okay??? Is that offensive to anyone???? That’s not sexist or anything, is it???), as firm of mind as she is of hand, and still lose to Justine Henin-Hardenne

Cover.HardcourtConfidential On the eve of Wimbledon, I thought it might be a nice idea to re-visit the epic Roger Federer vs. Rafael Nadal final of 2008, just to remind us how hard to wish for a reprise of that battle. But let's look at it through the eyes of Patrick

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Jared Donaldson didn't let a crushing first set ruin his Monday evening at the Citi Open. Playing against world No. 70-ranked Dudi Sela in his opener, the American had to fight back, or risk an early loss in front of a home crowd. In the opening-set tiebreaker,