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You won’t be able to verify this in the match statistics, but I’d be willing to bet that, as Victoria Azarenka and Jelena Jankovic sat in the locker room after their semifinal, both discovered that they had broken a nail. Looking at the numbers, here’s what we know for sure:

In this edition of The Rally, Joel and Steve talk about Tuesday’s impressive wins by Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic, and break down their momentous semifinal showdown on Friday. Hi Steve, Well, well, we indeed have the mouth-watering Roland Garros semifinal everyone considered when the draw was made: Carlos Alcaraz

The biting precision of Jelena Jankovic’s shots was as unwavering as the gleeful expression on the smiley-face vibration dampener embedded in her strings. The Serb absorbed Petra Kvitova’s power effectively, redirected drives down the line masterfully, and played with plenty of positive emotion in reeling off five consecutive games to

The Break: Who are the carota boys?

Iga Swiatek vs. Jelena Ostapenko “For sure, I think, yeah, she plays well against me,” Swiatek said after her last meeting with Ostapenko, at the 2023 US Open. It wasn’t a statement that really needed to be made. A few minutes earlier, Ostapenko had run her record against Swiatek to

BUCHAREST, Romania(AP) Third-seeded Juan Monaco of Argentina defeated Pere Riba of Spain 6-4, 6-2 Thursday to reach the quarterfinals of the BCR Open Romania. Monaco, the highest seed left in the competition, never faced a break point in the match. He converted his only break point in the first set

Before Rafael Nadal won his 18th and 19th Grand Slam titles, before Novak Djokovic crushed the souls of Roger Federer fans once again, and before all of Cocomania, there was Miami. This was the last hard-court tournament, before today, that Daniil Medvedev entered and failed to reach the final. Yet

With the Roland Garros brackets out, the gang breaks down the men’s and women’s tournaments.

The Break: Who is Tim Van Rijthoven?

The drama from this year's gentlemen's singles final at Wimbledon wasn't the match itself—that a 6-3, 6-1, 6-4 Roger Federer win over Marin Cilic, in an hour and 41 minutes—but everything that surrounded those lopsided numbers. It starts with Cilic, who, after an assertive start, completely lost his way. Gone

Roger Federer recently won his first Mercedes Cup title in Stuttgart by defeating Milos Raonic in straight sets. The week of work got him back up to No. 1 but the victory may turn out to be a bad omen going into Wimbledon. Since 2015, every Stuttgart champion has lost

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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — LOOKAHEAD TO SUNDAY Top-ranked Ash Barty will continue her bid to break a long Australian Open drought when she plays No. 60-ranked Amanda Anisimova in the fourth round. Barty is aiming to be the first Australian woman to win the championship here since 1978. Anisimova saved

Stress was spiking as Argentine qualifier Federico Delbonis spun a forehand smack off the baseline in the sixth game of the second set prompting Roger Federer to kick the red clay creating a rising cloud of frustration. Federer debuted his new Wilson racquet in Hamburg this week, but Delbonis found

MELBOURNE—Venus Williams walked into Hisense Arena for her first-round match against Galina Voskoboeva of Kazakhstan, and then walked right back off. She took a bathroom break before there was anything to take a break from. It would be the only thing that slowed her down today. Sixty minutes later, she