I've been wracking my brain, trying to come up with a bigger upset than yesterday's barnburner, in which Marion Bartoli, a plump, cheerful, star-struck (if not by her WTA sisters) French lass took out the top seed at Wimbledon, Justine Henin. The closest I can come, ironically enough, featured the

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP)—Vera Zvonareva calls her “great for women’s tennis.” Li Na says she’s an “amazing player.” Doubles star Mike Bryan considers her “one of the best in the mix.” Justine Henin’s retirement brought tributes across tennis Thursday for the seven-time Grand Slam winner who was competing only days earlier

WATCH: Collins addressed the crowd after reaching her first major fourth round since 2020.

“As soon as you play some shots with them, they go very big, much too fluffy. They become like a grapefruit. ... We’re basically playing 30-shot rallies because it’s almost impossible to hit a winner.” Daniil Medvedev, criticizing the “Head Tour” ball being used at the China Open A tennis

The tabs are unanimous: It hasn't been a good week for British tennis. Well, they aren't quite unanimous. The Mirror calls Tuesday at Wimbledon, after which only two of the original 11 U.K. players in the draws were still standing, a "day of shame." The Mail sees it differently. They

Tennis Channel Live: Thoughts on Agnieszka Radwanska's retirement from the game

It’s a fact that has only grown less explicable with time: Andy Murray went 10 years before he reached his first clay-court final, and won his first clay-court title. Yes, the Scot is from a land best-known for grass courts, but he trained extensively on clay, at the Sanchez-Casals Academy

Sania Mirza, said to be the most Googled female tennis player in the world last year, is in Charleston right now and she’s rather busy. She and doubles partner Elena Vesnina, who won the Indian Wells doubles title together last month, are in the singles and doubles quarterfinals. Several years

So when I was invited to this March of Dimes annual awards ceremony at the elegant and decidedly old-school Waldorf-Astoria, I figured I'd drift on over, maybe get a word with Andre Agassi, who was being honored as Sportsman of the Year. Maybe ask Danica Patrick (the INDY car driver

Coco Gauff’s incredible summer, capped off by a US Open title, has once again spotlighted the wisdom of one of tennis’ preeminent strategists, former pro and ESPN analyst Brad Gilbert. Prior to joining forces with Gauff, the Gilbert coaching journey included helping two other players win the US Open soon

I was pretty eager to see the conclusion of the Arnaud Clement vs. Rainer Schuettler quarterfinal today; it had been postponed due to darkness at one set apiece late yesterday. The resumption promised to be hugely entertaining, partly because the winner was doomed to play Rafael Nadal in the semifinals;

Ana Ivanovic is an awfully nice girl, but I think she deserves to be written about anyway. So I made a point of getting out to the Pacific Life Open early today, because Ivanovic was first on, playing Vera Zvonareva. The stadium looked like a bowl of hard candies that

Quit While You’re Ahead. Way Ahead

Over the spring and across the summer of 2017, Alexander “Sascha” Zverev made many in the tennis cognoscenti unabashed believers in both his big game and vast potential. The 6’6” German captured a pair of Masters 1000 tournament titles in that span, striking down Novak Djokovic on clay in Rome,

Speaking recently about his old friend and longtime professional colleague Butch Buchholz, fellow Hall of Famer Cliff Drysdale got to the essence of as multi-faceted a man as tennis has ever known. Drysdale said, “Butch has always been there for the game. He has done so many things in tennis.

Warning: This story has plot spoilers for Challengers (2024). Given the ample doses of existential dread faced by each of the three protagonists in Challengers, Hollywood’s latest tennis-centric feature film, perhaps a better title for the movie would have been Challenges. Over the course of 131 fast-paced, time-jumping minutes, a

When the news came my way that Colette Evert had passed away at 92 last Thursday, it hit me awfully hard. She was an extraordinary woman I had known well since 1972, and was the matriarch of a close-knit and strikingly accomplished family of seven, joining forces with her singularly

LONDON (AP) — The Latest from Wimbledon (all times local): 8:20 p.m. Despite Andy Murray's absence and the failure of any British singles players to make it to the second week, the host nation will be represented right until the end of Wimbledon. Playing on Centre Court for the first

The most significant success story of tennis’ last two decades has been the rise, and continued rise, of the Australian Open. For years it was a major in a minor key, passed over by top players unwilling to make the trek Down Under at the end of the season. With

*88843908 By Pete Bodo One of the welcome elements in the unfolding saga of Roger Federer is that he gives someone with an inquiring (or perhaps just mischievous) mind a fair amount with which to play around. That's because Federer is different and not just in the way that's enabled