Stan Wawrinka looked to his player box and pointed to his temple after winning the final point of his French Open semifinal against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga on Friday. As far as I can remember, this is a move he has been making since his run to the Australian Open title 16

Does a yellowish tint coat your TV screen during the Fox Sports broadcasts from Key Biscayne, as if the tournament were being played behind a haze of South Florida humidity? For some inexplicable reason, I like it. The lack of a crystal-clear picture makes me feel as if the tournament

MATCH POINT: Bencic dismisses Ziyas

World No. 49 Heather Watson of Great Britain believes she can improve her ranking by a significant margin in 2013. The 20-year-old won the Japan Open in October. “I have a general idea about world rankings and I’d love to be around the 20s at the end of 2013,” she

Jelena Jankovic, who fell to Daniela Hantuchova in the Family Circle Cup quarters, said she is contending with a left wrist injury. "It's hurting when I'm hitting the backhand, so a lot of times I lose a lot of power on the ball and it's hard to play," she said.

Holger Rune is showing signs of the form that took him to the Rolex Paris Masters title in 2022, the No. 13 seed easing past Alexander Bublik, 6-4, 6-2 on Wednesday. “I always enjoy playing in Paris,” Rune told Prakash Amritraj following his first-round win at the Tennis Channel Live

Hi Kamakshi, So that’s it, another Tennis Masters Rogers AT&T Toronto Cup is in the books. I thought it was an entertaining tournament. The matches were competitive and high-quality, and there were a few nice story lines, particularly among the younger set. I’ll give a quick summary of the week’s

The ball picks up speed on grass, and the tours do, too. When a “season” consists of two weeks of tune-ups and one Grand Slam tournament, you have to make the most of it. As I was finishing my write-up on this weekend’s finals on Monday, the top seed at

by Pete Bodo One thing about that galoot Juan Martin del Potro; he's been about as methodical as he is big. As predictable (and I mean that in a good way) as the sunrise. As stable as the concrete piling holding up a major bridge. Which is why his actions

by Bobby Chintapalli The WTA’s No. 1 story this week is that No. 1 story we’ve heard for months now. With the top ranking on the line—Petra Kvitova will dethrone Caroline Wozniacki if she wins Sydney this week—I jotted down some percolating thoughts. The upshot: A change at the top

by Pete Bodo Let's put this very simply: If I were to ask you, a week ago, to name the four finalists at Indian Wells, how many of you would have said: Wozniacki, Jankovic, Roddick and Ljubicic? Or, not to open old tennis wounds, but what kinds of odds would

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) Rafael Nadal will play in the Wimbledon quarterfinals despite a left foot injury. The defending champion said Tuesday that his foot, which he injured during Monday's fourth-round win over Juan Martin del Potro, is not seriously injured. `Yesterday after the match I went to take an MRI

You won’t find a tennis story more inspiring than the one currently being authored by Landon Sachs. Landon is currently on scholarship to play wheelchair tennis at the University of Arizona. “The campus was super-accessible,” he told Tennis Channel. “I think I’ll probably learn a lot from people who go

“I don’t know how the week was,” said world No. 2 Angelique Kerber on Sunday, "because I’m really tired.” It’s an assessment that casual and hardcore tennis fans might want to consider echoing. The knee-jerk reaction to Kerber’s 6-3, 6-1 loss to Karolina Pliskova in Cincinnati was that the German

World No. 1 doubles player Robert Farah has withdrawn from the Australian Open while announcing that he tested positive for the banned substance boldenone. The 32-year-old Colombian was informed by the ITF about the results of an anti-doping test he took in October 2019. “I want to tell everyone about

Gilles Cervara was introduced to a brand-new world in his teenage years. At age 15, he saw a friend playing tennis and was immediately hooked, ready to dive into the game wholeheartedly. Dedicated but late to the party, Cervara was unable to make up for lost time as a competitive

Maybe I was wrong last week. Maybe the more things change in one part of the world, the more they stay the same somewhere else. A few days after Jo-Wilfried Tsonga became the first black player to win an ATP tournament in South Africa, Israel’s Shahar Peer, as you surely

Jasmine Paolini completed an incredible comeback at Wimbledon, rallying from a set down to defeat an inspired Donna Vekic, 2-6, 6-4, 7-6 (8). "This match, I will remember forever," she said on court after the match. The No. 7 seed twice trailed by a break in the final set, but

DUBLIN, Ireland—It’s 20 after nine in the morning here at my connecting point to Wimbledon, where I’ll be spending the next two weeks writing about Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, Roger Federer, and Rafael Nadal. In other words, I will be covering The Big Fourtnight. The idea for this blog came

Christina McHale pulls out of next week’s tournament in Tokyo, as she is still feeling the effects of a virus caught while contesting the London Olympics. The 20-year-old complained of feeling weak in the third set of her first-round loss to Kiki Bertens at the U.S. Open. “I am still