The circadian rhythm tennis offers is typically one to which you can set your watch. Time zones may vary, but an 11 a.m. start time is forever—or so we thought. At the inaugural Chicago Fall Tennis Classic, players scheduled for the first match of the day have been subjected to

“I think we’d go out together,” Mike Bryan told TENNIS Magazine in 2016, when asked about his brother and fellow doubles savant, Bob. “We’ve got a special bond.” On Wednesday, the most successful doubles team in tennis history, and two of the most decorated American players ever, made a joint

PARIS (AP) Easy to understand why Andy Roddick never enjoyed playing on red clay all that much. First and foremost, the footing is tricky as can be. The soft courts take his booming serves and forehands down a notch, too. Put simply, his game is built for hard or grass

BASEL, Switzerland(AP) Roger Federer made a winning return from a six-week break with a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Olivier Rochus of Belgium at his hometown Swiss Indoors tournament. The top-ranked player looked rested and refreshed Monday after last playing Sept. 20, when he helped Switzerland beat Italy in the Davis

“It’s all about confidence.” If you’ve listened to a tennis player speak for more than a minute in your life, you’ve probably heard a variant of that sentence. Confidence is the Holy Grail and the ever-elusive X factor in this individual sport. It’s also the great democratic leveler. Even the

NEW YORK—Mardy Fish understood when he came to Flushing Meadows this year that his last tournament wouldn’t have a storybook finish. “This isn’t a sports movie, of course,” he wrote this week in "The Weight," a first-person article for The Players’ Tribune about the anxiety disorder that essentially ended his

SYDNEY -- South Africa's Kevin Anderson beat Julien Benneteau of France 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (8) on Friday in a match between players separated by a single ranking point to reach the final of the Sydney International. Last year's runner-up, Benneteau edged Anderson by the single point to claim the 32nd

Players' sharp tongues—good-natured and pointed comments both—tend to present themselves most often, and most memorably, at major tournaments. Few seem to be catching their heat quite like the talking heads on various TV networks, including ESPN and Tennis Channel. Take this sampling just from Day 1 of the Australian Open:

For more than half a century, first as a fan and later as a reporter, through all my years in and around the world of tennis, I have never known a more estimable individual than Arthur Ashe. He was much larger than the game he played for a living. Multi-faceted,

When I first began coaching, I did not know too much about the game of tennis (I played on my college team at Spring Hill in Mobile, Alabama). This means that I had to learn quickly and digest it all as quickly as possible. In the end, I learned as

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — It's where Serena Williams, Roger Federer, Martina Navratilova, Pete Sampras and Steffi Graf reigned. Rod Laver, Billie Jean King and Althea Gibson before that. And Bill Tilden, Helen Wills Moody, Don Budge and Suzanne Lenglen before that. It's been called the cathedral of tennis and the

ATP Rank: No. 144 UTR Rank: No. 42 What he's done since last summer: Won the Champaign, Columbus, and Noumea Challengers An ATP coach once told me that players armed with huge weapons will always outrank the weaponless. The point structure rewards a few fantastic results far more than consistent,

In honor of the upcoming 50th edition of the ATP Finals, the ATP is unveiling a new web series that brings together players from all different eras to discuss their experiences at the end-of-year event. Tim Henman helped Pete Sampras and Novak Djokovic kick off the series by discussing their

Anna Kournikova was excited when Serena Williams won the Australian Open, the same event in which Kournikova won two women's doubles titles. Not excited enough, though, to rejoin the women's tour. `She's an amazing player and she's a great inspiration,'' Kournikova said of Williams, who won the singles title Jan.

It’s a testament to the personal loyalty many players feel toward Houston’s tennis kingpin, Jim “Mattress Mac” McIngvale, that Jim Courier and Andre Agassi teamed up to play doubles at this week’s U.S. Men’s Clay Court Championships in Houston. Unfortunately, they were bounced out of the tournament in the blink

KEY BISCAYNE, Florida (AP)—Novak Djokovic declared himself in career-best form after trouncing veteran James Blake 6-2, 6-0 on Sunday in the third round of the Sony Ericsson Open. The No. 2-seeded Serb extended his winning streak to 22 consecutive matches. He has lost just three games in two matches at

In this special edition of The Rally, Joel Drucker and Steve Tignor talk about Iga Swiatek’s stunningly dominant title run in Paris, and how much she could add to the sport, as a player and personality. Hi Steve, That was an amazing display of power, accuracy, movement and poise from

Given that Victoria Azarenka has always been a player with enormous potential, the fact that at 22 she had yet to contest a Grand Slam final was either disturbing or, to some, a sign that she probably had some fatal flaw. But in the final of the 25th Grand Slam

Venus Williams and the grandly named Maria-Teresa Torro-Flor played a first-round match that could have been mistaken for one of those Goran Ivanisevic-Pete Sampras rockfights from the days of yore. They began by targeting each other with big serves—wide, down the T, to the body—and did what all players are

The 2025 PPA season is here, with former tennis pro Jack Sock is off to an undefeated beginning. This week, the PPA Masters in Palm Springs, Calif. is hosting the best of the best in five tournament brackets: men’s and women’s singles, men’s and women’s doubles, and mixed doubles. Competing