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

FLASHBACK: Jabeur scored her first of two wins over the 2023 Australian Open finalists on Wednesday when she shocked Elena Rybakina in the quarterfinals.

LONDON—The many coaches, family members and friends seated in Mona Barthel’s player box spoke German almost exclusively during the 26-year-old’s first-round match on Court 18 at the All England Club, but for two notable instances. The first: “Super!” Considering Barthel is one the most skilled unseeded players in the draw,

Andy Murray has called for regular heart screenings in tennis and other sports, following the cardiac arrest suffered by soccer player Fabrice Muamba last weekend. "I think it's time in almost all sports [that] everybody should have screenings before they can compete," Murray told MSN Sport. "This has happened too

Judy Murray, the mother of ATP players Andy and Jamie Murray and Britain’s Fed Cup captain, tells The Guardian that juniors need to mix up their competition. “When Jamie and Andy were eight and nine they were playing with a normal tennis ball on a normal-size court, and doing pretty

John Isner, America’s highest-ranked male player, celebrated his 31st birthday on Tuesday. Some of his fans spent the day reminiscing about Isner’s most famous match. Understandably so. It's not easy to forget the longest match in tennis history:

Andy Roddick and Roger Federer’s fourth meeting in a major final was their most dramatic match, with history on the line. At Wimbledon in 2009, the top two players in the world—Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer—were heading in decidedly different directions. Nadal, the defending champion, just saw his unbeaten streak

Over the first 10 days of 2017, we're examining the Top 10 players on the ATP and WTA tours—how will they fare during the new season? All of the previews can be found here. What does Simona Halep think when she looks at the rankings and sees Angelique Kerber’s name

It’s no secret that the Brits love their tennis. When Andy Murray, the most accomplished British player in the Open Era, plays a match on home soil, they pack the stadium. That wasn’t the case on Saturday when the two-time Wimbledon champion and Dan Evans took to the court in

In 2006, the late author David Foster Wallace traveled to Wimbledon to write an article about the No. 1 men's tennis player in the world at the time. A little more than a month later, Wallace disgorged multiple thousands of words—many of them in tiny footnote type—on the subject in

“I actually grew up playing on clay. That was all I played on, even before going to play hard court tournaments. The green clay, not the good stuff.” Tommy Paul, after advancing to the semifinals of the Rome Masters yesterday on red clay—improving on the success of compatriot and Rome

WATCH: Nadal speaks with Wertheim after semifinals

Daniil Medvedev is back in the hunt at the Nitto ATP Finals after approaching his latest day at the office with a 'just don't care' mentality. The 2020 champion dispatched Alex de Minaur, 6-2, 6-4, in his second Ilie Nastase Group encounter to bounce back from an opening loss to

The second in a series this week about a few of the players and themes to look for in 2012. One thing you can say about the WTA’s rankings at the start of 2012: They’re littered with could-be’s and might-have-beens, and they’re very thin on sure things. A dominant women’s

At 18, Jannik Sinner had won the NextGen ATP Finals. At 19, he had made himself the youngest player in the Top 75. He had beaten Alexander Zverev to reach the quarterfinals in his first trip to Roland Garros. And he had even garnered praise from John McEnroe for his

The Universal Tennis Rating system (UTR) takes five or six matches to gather enough data points to accurately estimate a player’s current level. Sloane Stephens has now played five matches in 2020, and the early numbers don’t look good. According to their metrics, the 2017 US Open champion is the

In the wake of the 2015 French Open, a sampling of the latest social-media foibles and feats from pro tennis players and observers: Stan Wawrinka's coach, Magnus Norman, was fittingly whelmed by his charge's Grand Slamming:

Their home crowd cheering them on at Pat Rafter Arena in Brisbane, Alex de Minaur and John Millman both came from behind to beat Canada’s top two players, Denis Shapovalov and Felix Auger-Aliassime, giving Team Australia a 2-0 record in their round-robin group at the ATP Cup. With Germany beating

LONDON -- As usual, Roger Federer is looking to add to one of his many records. And as many expected, Novak Djokovic will be trying to stop him. The top two players in the world advanced to the championship match at the ATP finals on Sunday, each looking beatable early

What was the first thing that the thousands of people who picked up tennis during the pandemic learned about the sport? It’s fun, yes. It’s a safe way to exercise, definitely. But they probably realized something else: It’s hard. As these newcomers discovered, while tennis bills itself as an individual