It was fitting that the clinching shot of Team Europe’s 2021 Laver Cup victory came off the racquet of Andrey Rublev. It happened in the form of a crunching crosscourt volley winner, giving Rublev and Alexander Zverev a 6-2, 6-7 (4), 10-3 win over the Team World duo of Reilly

NEW YORK—“Do something different, Donald!” This was the advice that a woman deep in the stands on Court 17 kept giving to Donald Young today. Virtually every time he lost a point, he received the mysterious instruction. People around me chuckled, but I couldn’t decide: Were her words completely idiotic,

51956363 by Pete Bodo Mornin.' I took Bucky the Wonder Pet on my run this morning, expecting a flat-learning curve for the 11-month old dog. Well, he trotted along with me, four-and-a-half miles, like a champ - then spent 15 minutes in the dog run, making the other dogs chase,

Let me be the first to say that I had a different hashtag in mind for Serena Williams after she emerged from a loaded section of the Australian Open draw that included her sister Venus and world No. 1 Simona Halep. As well as others were playing—including Karolina Pliskova, as

INDIAN WELLS, CALIF.—It’s 9:26 on Friday morning and Daniel Nestor is already grunting. Loudly. So loudly you might think it’s a joke, but as far as I can tell, it isn’t. He’s sweating, too, just like the other three players in the court with him. He and his partner, fellow

By TW Contributing Editor, Ed McGrogan Hi everyone. Pete is currently on vacation until the 14th, so I'll be commanding this ship in the meantime. Even though Saturday's 26-hour odyssey was trying at times, the fact that I am now fully adjusted to Beijing time made it worthwhile. This way,

Well, I'm no Ed McGrogan, so this will be Monday Net Post Lite, maybe Ultra-Lite - just a way to drop in to say happy Monday (I will be out of the office all day) and give y'all a place to talk. And there's plenty of fodder for that; Gael

Well, Indian Wells got underway today, but I know that many of you won't be attending the tournament until this weekend or later. So here's a little update for those of you traveling to the desert and the Coachella Valley, looking to hook up with others in the Tribe. Steggy

INTERVIEW IN PARIS: Stefanos Tsitsipas

LOS ANGELES—It’s almost noon on Friday, April 12. Here in Westwood, on the UCLA campus, former Bruin Jenny Brady (not Jennifer, please) is nearly half-way through her 29th birthday. Following knee surgery in February, Brady thought it would be a good idea to return to UCLA and resume her college

Hi Tribe, I'm now in NYC, studying the subway map diligently and avoiding the heat even more diligently. Hope your summers are all going well! On that note, where are you all going on vacation? And those of you who are going to tournaments-let us know! So far I have

NEW YORK(AP) Andre Agassi's upcoming autobiography contains an admission that he used crystal meth in 1997, the year he dropped to No. 141 in the rankings. In a story posted on People magazine's Web site Tuesday, Agassi says: ``I can't speak to addiction, but a lot of people would say

Speaking in London, ATP chief Adam Helfant has said that he expects the ATP Board of Directors to approve a reduction of up to three weeks in the men’s calendar starting in 2012. “I do believe the board will take action on this,” Helfant said. "There is a two-week (reduction)

“She plays like the ones I didn’t like to play so much, like Serena, or Lindsay Davenport.”—Martina Hingis, 2013 International Tennis Hall of Fame inductee and rookie coach, on her protégé, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. We’re accustomed to coaches pumping up their players, but when that coach was No. 1 at age

Afternoon, everyone. This was supposed to be a day off for me, but Madame Highpockets, TW's poet laureate (are we ready desigate her PLFL, or Poet Laureate For Life yet?), has been inspired to write another commemorative poem. Remind me if I ever get elected President of the United States

An interesting item came across in my daily Bob Larson's Business News, having to do with the event that nobody really seems to care about, know about, or follow. I mean, of course, the Arag World Team Cup that is in progress this week at the Rochusclub in Dusseldorf. This

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

"It was somewhat of a life-changing moment. I’m not going to sit here and say it’s not because it was. I tried to win one of these for a long time." World No. 9 Rajeev Ram joins the show this week to talk doubles, Indiana and Pete Sampras.

“That’s one of the things I learned right away is you have to be willing to go on the court every single day and get fired, and stick up for what you believe in."

We're counting down the Top 10 matches of 2019 as part of Tennis Channel's Home for the Holidays. Click here to read each selection. “I would love to be the one to have more, yes,” Rafael Nadal said after winning his fourth US Open and 19th Grand Slam title, in