Two men, one shot: Janowicz and John Isner show off their backhands.

As Tuesday dawned in Rome, there were quite a few women who fell into the “could really use a win” category. Unfortunately, two of them were facing two others. Early in the day, Bojana Jovanovski, who hadn’t won a match since the Australian Open, came back to beat Caroline Wozniacki,

WIMBLEDON, ENGLAND—Simona Halep had spent most of the last 10 days playing her effortless game on the smaller show courts here. Despite being the No. 3 seed and a French Open finalist last month, the no-drama Romanian had remained the walking definition of “under the radar” at the All England

Tennis made a splash, color-wise, in its return this weekend at the Western & Southern Open. Bright hues and painterly splashes were the norm around Flushing Meadows. You might think that the same would have been true for Stefanos Tsitsipas, who is among the most flamboyant of the young heirs

LOS ANGELES (AP)—Bob and Mike Bryan won their record 62nd career doubles title on the ATP Tour on Sunday. The twin brothers defeated American Eric Butorac and Jean-Julien Rojer of Netherlands Antilles 6-7 (8-6), 6-2 (10-7) in the Farmers Classic, the Bryans’ 100th career final. They had been tied with

DOHA, Qatar (AP)—Kim Clijsters reached the WTA Championships final for the first time in seven years after maintaining her domination of Sam Stosur by beating the Australian 7-6 (3), 6-1 on Saturday. Clijsters showed no sign on court of being involved in a car accident on her way to Khalifa

World No. 7 Tomas Berdych won his first title since October 2012 with a 6-4, 6-2 victory over Marin Cilic. It was a long time in between the Czech’s championships, both of which came indoors: Cilic was suspended for a doping violation and reinstated; Berdych reached the Australian Open semifinals

It figures that a match between the oldest and youngest players in the Wimbledon draw would feature some extremes. An extremely hot start from Venus Williams, the 36-year-old, five-time Wimbledon champion: She won five of the first six games before Daria Kasatkina, the 19-year-old world No. 33, took the next

SHANGHAI (AP)—Andy Roddick and John Isner advanced to the second round of the Shanghai Masters on Tuesday. Roddick moved on after an ill Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany retired in the second set. Kohlschreiber stopped while trailing 6-3, 2-1 after missing an easy overhead, shanking a forehand wide and double-faulting to

BEIJING (AP)—Defending champion Novak Djokovic and fourth-seeded Nikolay Davydenko moved into the quarterfinals of the China Open in Beijing on Wednesday, while Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark moved to within one win of the No. 1 ranking. Wozniacki’s textbook 6-4, 6-2 win over Italy’s Sara Errani means that if she beats

Nick Kyrgios has said that he prefers basketball to tennis. Actions, however, speak louder than words. And so Kyrgios went out and acted on his preference by bailing on a contract with a tennis tournament so he could play hoops instead. Two days after Kyrgios received an eight-week suspension from

There is a new troll in Central Park (well, technically, Flushing Meadows), and his name is Daniil Medvedev. After his four-set win over Feliciano Lopez on Friday night, the Russian gave the raucous Louis Armstrong crowd one of the best quotes in recent memory. “When you sleep tonight, I want

Dan Evans is turning out to be the breakthrough fairy tale story of the Australian Open and he's doing it without a logo on his shirt. The Brit beat Bernard Tomic in straight sets to reach the fourth round of a major for the first time. The win comes one

As the world adapts to spending more time at home, many are looking for ways to keep themselves entertained. But social distancing isn't so bad when there's a solid collection of tennis films available. Here are some tennis movies to stream this week. 1 Battle of the Sexes The star-studded

Sam Querrey had only beaten Top 20 players back-to-back three times over the course of his career prior to tearing up the field in Acapulco. Last week, the American took out four Top 17 players in a row on the South American hard courts to win the ATP World Tour

More often than not, junior players tend to plant themselves on the baseline and go for broke with big forehands and backhands. While you’ll end up with strong groundstrokes playing like that, a huge and underappreciated part of the sport will get lost: the net game. “The game has become

Some might call it oversaturation, but RuPaul's Drag Race certainly is having a mega-moment. With concurrent seasons of the U.S. original (now in no. 13) and UK version (entering no. 2) now underway, the latter took to a locally, globally famous subject: Wimbledon. As Metro UK framed it, "Similar to

As promised, here's a post where y'll can ask L. Jon Wertheim questions pertaining to his new book, Strokes of Genius:Federer, Nadal and the Greatest Tennis Match Ever Played. I've read the book, and it's a testament to Jon's peripatetic intellect (in what other tennis book would you find a

Things happen quickly for Dinara Safina. She ended a three-year coaching relationship with Zeljko Krajan last season and promptly replaced him with Gaston Etlis...and by January sacked him in favor of Davide Sanguinetti. She somehow nosedived from No. 1 in the WTA to No. 113 in under two years, during

He sang a song in Ibiza! Carlos Alcaraz has made a vacation in Ibiza something of a post-Roland Garros tradition in recent years, having first "turn[ed] off his mind" for a few days after losing to Novak Djokovic in a four-set semifinal at the clay-court Grand Slam in 2023, in