Greetings. As you know, I've beenMIA since Friday afternoon. Down in Orlando (yes, Disneyworld, Universal, et al) at another of the "geezerpalooza" gatherings put together by my wife LIsa and her college friends. The theme park isn't my kind of thing, in fact it's probably the opposite, but you know

By Jackie Roe, TW Social Director Evenin', TWibe! I'm still cracking up from last week's Deuce Club, which saw y'all recount your most embarrassing stories. If you missed it, make sure to go back and take a look! Next week is a big one, with the arrivals of the ATP

For our sixth annual Heroes Issue, we’ve selected passages from the last 50 years of Tennis Magazine and TENNIS.com—starting in 1969 and ending in 2018—to highlight 50 worthy heroes. Each passage acknowledges the person as they were then; each subsequent story catches up with the person, or highlights their impact,

Although professional tennis is played on a variety of surfaces, we rarely see that variety on a given day. Tournaments are contested on a single surface for months, then switch courts entirely for an extended tract of time. But there are exceptions in the 11-month calendar, as one might hope.

MONTREAL (AP) Top-ranked Novak Djokovic survived two match points and rallied to beat Latvia's Ernests Gulbis 5-7, 7-6 (7), 6-1 on Friday night in the Rogers Cup quarterfinals. Djokoic survived two match points for the first time since 2012 in Shanghai against Andy Murray. The Serb, the tournament champion in

SYDNEY (AP) Four-time champion David Ferrer kept alive one ritual and American Jack Sock tried starting another at Auckland's ASB Classic on Thursday. The top-seeded Ferrer reached the semifinals for the sixth time after beating Lukas Rosol 6-3, 6-4, and advanced to play Sock. The 26th-ranked Sock upset fourth-seeded Kevin

MELBOURNE—Roger Federer, who lost in the semifinals of the Australian Open to Novak Djokovic, said he still believes he can beat the world No. 1 on the biggest stages. The 34-year-old Federer has now lost to the Serb in their last four meetings at majors. Prior to Thursday’s match, Djokovic

You may have seen Serena Williams dust off Svetlana Kuznetsova on Friday at the Italian Open in Rome. It was her most decisive win in 12 matches against her sometimes-rival, who has beaten her twice at major events and once this year. The victory came by a 6-0, 6-2 score.

Andy Murray reacted to the loaded bottom quarter at Indian Wells much like any tennis fan would, calling it an ''amazing draw" that should produce some big first-week matchups. The section has No. 2 Novak Djokovic, No. 6 Rafael Nadal and No. 9 Roger Federer all in the same quarter,

PARIS (AP) — Rafael Nadal pulled out of the Paris Masters on Friday because of a right knee injury, putting in doubt his participation in the ATP finals. The top-ranked Spaniard, who had his knee taped during the third set of his third-round win over Pablo Cuevas, said he wouldn't

DOHA, Qatar (AP) Carla Suarez Navarro restricted No.3-ranked Agnieszka Radwanska to only two games as she reached the final of the Qatar Open with a 6-2, 6-0 semifinal victory on Friday. The eighth-seeded Suarez Navarro needed only 62 minutes to beat Radwanska and will next face Latvian 18-year-old Jelena Ostapenko,

BASEL, Switzerland (AP) — Kei Nishikori ended Juan Martin del Potro's long winning run at the Swiss Indoors, edging their quarterfinal 7-5, 6-4 on Friday. Top-seeded Stan Wawrinka's long underachieving run in Basel continued when the U.S. Open champion lost 6-2, 5-7, 6-1 to 72nd-ranked qualifier Mischa Zverev of Germany.

Not want to risk injury following his title run in Basel, Roger Federer withdrew from this week’s Paris Masters. The decision means that Rafael Nadal needs to win just one match in either Paris or at the Nitto ATP Finals in London to clinch the year-end No. 1 ranking. Federer

Injuries have benched Rafael Nadal's top rivals this week in Cincinnati, but the Spaniard says he knows what it's like more than any of them. A full seven of the Top 10 are currently sidelined—Roger Federer, Andy Murray, Marin Cilic and Milos Raonic all withdrew from the event with injury,

DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Andrey Rublev of Russia saved a match point to reach his second career ATP Tour final with a 6-2, 4-6, 7-6 (2) win over Guido Pella of Argentina at the Qatar Open. The 39th-ranked Rublev has had trouble with his serve throughout the tournament. He posted

There’s a new set of tennis trading cards on the market. On Wednesday, Fanatics officially released 2024 Topps Chrome Tennis for collectors to get their hands on. The latest line was produced in tandem with a group licensing deal overseen by the Professional Tennis Players Association (PTPA). It follows the

Coming into his third-round match at the Australian Open Saturday with Lorenzo Musetti, Ben Shelton had dropped both of their prior meetings—including on hard courts at last year’s Miami Open. The left-hander nearly found himself in a deciding set situation on John Cain Arena, before winning the final two points

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The screw holding the net in place at the Australian Open’s main stadium got jarred loose during defending champion Jannik Sinner’s fourth-round victory against Holger Rune on Monday, delaying play for about 20 minutes early in the fourth set. After finishing his 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2

Since pickleball’s sprout into sporting popularity, it’s frequently crossed over with its sister racquet sport, tennis. Jack Sock, Genie Bouchard, Sam Querrey and Donald Young are former tennis standouts now competing on the professional pickleball tour. The latest to join the PPA is the biggest star yet, and his pickleball

PRAGUE -- David Ferrer kept alive Spain's hopes of winning a fourth Davis Cup title in five years by beating Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic in the first reverse singles match Sunday to even the final at 2-2. The fifth-ranked Ferrer won 6-2, 6-3, 7-5 to improve his career