Andy Roddick tells AFP that he does not expect any substantial changes to be made with what he and other star players consider to be an overly taxing schedule. "It's a little tedious," Roddick said. "I think in 2001, 2002 we finished around Halloween (late October) at Paris Bercy. We've

The WTA’s unpredictable season has taken another turn this Fall with the dramatic rise of Carolina Garcia. Coming off an 11-match win streak and two titles in Wuhan and Beijing, she’s unquestionably the hottest player on the Tour. And with Johanna Konta’s recent withdrawal from Moscow, she’s now the eight

“Tennis is about the big points.”* This is the sport’s original truth, parroted by all writers, commentators, analysts, pundits, and no-nothings. Even the players have been known to repeat it now and then. But is it true? And if it is, what constitutes a big point? I’ve always gone along

Although most of the world will not be catching a flight anytime soon due to the on-going pandemic, tennis fans had the chance to catch the action-packed tennis held inside the Hangar 6 at Tempelhof Airport in Berlin. Two players closed out the exhibition event on a strong note to

The first final between unseeded players in a decade at one of the oldest tournaments in the United States went the distance. In 2003, Mardy Fish reached the Top 20 in the world behind the strength of his first singles title in Stockholm, and first ATP Masters 1000 final in

PARIS (AP)—Li Na is back in a Grand Slam final, reaching her second straight major championship match by beating Maria Sharapova 6-4, 7-5 on Thursday at the French Open. The Australian Open runner-up, who became the first Chinese player to reach a Grand Slam final this year in Melbourne, was

You know Naomi Osaka and Stefanos Tsitsipas for their world-class tennis talent, but how well do you know their Twitter personalities? Both of the Top-10 players are fairly active on social media, so on the latest episode of Tennis United, Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Vasek Pospisil dug up some old tweets

In an interview with Tennis News Brazil, doubles standout Bruno Soares responds to John McEnroe’s comments that the tour should abolish doubles because there is little interest in it, and because top singles players rarely play it anymore. McEnroe, who won 78 career doubles titles, considers the level of doubles

LONDON—The WTA tour's age restriction rules are a hot topic following 15-year-old Coco Gauff's fourth-round run at Wimbledon. The junior phenom received a wild card into the qualifying tournament and won her first five Wimbledon matches in straight sets, including over Venus Williams in her first main-draw contest. After a

Is there a way to be confidently un-confident? That’s the question hovering over the head of Rafael Nadal as the European clay-court season begins. For most players, it will be a long and leisurely journey to the grand finale in Paris. For the five-time defending French Open champion, it may

“Be careful what you wish for”: It’s a cliché for a reason. Once upon a time, when I was asked for suggestions on how tennis could improve its yearly schedule, one of my first responses was to advocate for a dual-gender team event. It would happen either at the start

France's Diane Parry made waves on Monday by winning her first Grand Slam match as a 16-year-old wild card at the French Open, but she's also getting noticed for her old-school play. The teen hits a one-handed backhand—a shot used by former No. 1s as recently as Amelie Mauresmo and

NEW YORK (AP) The victory came on clay, and it came 4 1/2 months ago. It also came at a time when Novak Djokovic seemed virtually unbeatable - something that doesn't seem so certain now. When Jiri Vesely upset the world's No. 1 player in Monte Carlo in April, Djokovic

No player had ever recorded a Golden Slam before Steffi Graf did it in 1988. But then again, the feat was not even possible before 1988. The French championships were closed to non-nationals until 1925, and tennis had left the Olympics in 1924. The concept of Olympic tennis was so

It's always interesting to see how a relatively low-ranked player will respond when he's in a position to upset a better one, especially if the latter happens to be a big name. There's a point where the forehands and backhands don't have much to do with it, but nerves and

Novak, Rafa, Iga, Coco…Dino? Tennis has a handful of players who we know by their first names alone. After the opening day of the 2024 Australian Open, the consensus among the sport’s cognoscenti seems to be that Dino Prizmic, an 18-year-old newcomer from Croatia, is destined to join them. His

MELBOURNE—Jenson Brooksby is once again a professional tennis player. After a two-year absence, the 24-year-old American returned to tour competition at the Australian Open, the venue of his last match played back in 2023. In that tournament, he stunned 3rd-seeded Casper Ruud in the second round. Today there would be

The loudest voices during the last match on Shanghai’s center court on Tuesday came from the two players on court, Stefanos Tsitsipas and Ugo Humbert. With only a few hundred fans left in the stands, it felt like the Greek and the Frenchman had the place largely to themselves. So

In 1998, the late Jana Novotna faced Nathalie Tauziat in the championship match at Wimbledon—the first time a final there was contested between two players seeking their maiden Grand Slam in the Open Era. In 1997, Novotna made a return appearance to the championship match at Wimbledon, falling to the

A nine-year-old walks with his mother on a Sunday in London. Trekking to their destination, an enchanting wind whispers hello as butterflies border the blonde-haired boy. The pair arrive and find their seats. Two revered men cloaked in white emerge: one is bold and boisterous with bellowing brown curls, the