I recently spoke with Jim Baugh, former President of Wilson and the TIA (Tennis Industry Association). Baugh is now leading the day-to-day operations for PHIT America, an advocacy group started by the SFIA (Sports and Fitness Industry Association), which is bridging corporate sponsors, legislators, and the grass-roots organization Kids in

V By Pete Bodo For long, long stretches of their two-hour and 56 minute encounter under the translucent skin (roof) above Centre Court, five-time Wimbledon champ Venus Williams probably couldn't tell which Kimiko Date Krumm she was up against. Was it the 40-year old, 5' 4" sprite, that Asian smiley-face

*101585217(2) by Pete Bodo After Francesca Schiavone advanced to the final of Roland Garros via a 7-6, retirement win over Elena Dementieva, she was asked why her star in the game had risen so "late." As is her style, she waited to answer, a dreamy, faraway expression on her face,

Moments after Vania King shocked Slammin' Sammy Stosur on the Grandstand court at the US Open late this afternoon, a dozen teen-aged boys began to leap around, waving their arms, calling out, "Vania, Vania!" She glanced their way, and one shouted, "Wristband!" Whereupon King swiftly peeled off the damp terry

(Ed. note - Miguel, the fastest forehand drop shot, East or West, will be blogging Shanghai for TennisWorld as his schedule allows. Here's the first typically thoughtful and well-textured post from Mikey - PB) ‘Ni hao’ from the city that proclaims to be ‘The Eyes of China’ – I’ll also

As wild and sometimes as wacky as this Wimbledon has been, the men who many pundits forecast as the finalists are each one match away from firming up that date. The surprising thing is who they must hurdle in order to glance across the net at each other on Centre

In the wake of the news that this week will mark the first in ATP history that no players in the Top 10 possess a one-handed backhand,* Tennis.com offers a look back at a 2023 series counting down the 20 most impressive one-handers, and how their combination of beauty and

From first ball to last, keep up to date with the latest from Roland Garros every day on TENNIS.com. We'll have match updates, photos, video highlights and more in our daily notebook: Passport to RG. On Sunday, Rafael Nadal defeated Novak Djokovic, 6-0, 6-2, 7-5, to triumph for the 13th

by Pete Bodo It was the eighth game of the first set, and Serena Williams found herself in a deep hole at 3-4, 15-40 against her sister Venus - a woman who hadn't lost a set at Wimbledon in 34 matches going back to the third round here in 2007.

I’ll be helping to wrap up our Wimbledon coverage this week with a few posts, the first of which will cherry-pick quotes from day one of Wimbledon right through the finals. I selected these particular quotes for different reasons, as you’ll no doubt see. So let’s get right going: “I

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From career titles and winning streaks to ranking breakthroughs and in-match numbers, tennis is a stat-lover’s playground. And with so many big names achieving so many big things seemingly every week, many of the sport's most incredible stats are forgotten as time goes by—underrated, if you will. Grand Slams tend

It’s a classic 2013 paradox: Even as we talk about the death of print and the decline of journalism as a money-making venture, the web has allowed for more valuable articles about niche sports like tennis to be published than ever before. The two weeks of the U.S. Open were

It’s still busy around here. We’re streaking, and occasionally stumbling, to the finish line of our April issue. Sometimes I think we’re horribly behind schedule, then I remember what an old, crusty, and highly realistic boss of mine once said: “Work fills up the time allotted for it.” In other

In pro tennis, 2009 might go down as the Year in Twitter. Every pro, it seemed, got into the act. The pro tours even had to warn players from divulging too much information that could be used by nefarious gamblers looking for an edge at their local sports bet. Amazingly,

On the opening day of Wimbledon 2013, only one men’s match went the distance—Julien Reister’s three-and-a-half hour, 6-4 in-the-fifth win over. . . Lukas Rosol. But ironically, the seismic news of the day was generated by the man who made Rosol a household name at about this same time last

NEW YORK—When the skies opened up over Arthur Ashe Stadium around 1 p.m. yesterday afternoon, someone in press room called out, “Okay, time to close the roof.” Alas, it will be some time before that becomes an option—three years from now, if all goes well. Until then, we’ll have to

Each day during the U.S. Open, Peter Bodo will recap the previous day's events and look ahead to the upcoming day's play. We encourage you to discuss the action from Flushing Meadows in the comments section below. NEW YORK—A great deal of U.S. Open tennis had been played at the

NEW YORK—Say what you will about Patrick McEnroe, the USTA, Arlen Kantarian, Billie Jean King, Mardy Fish, or Serena Williams. I find it impressive and gratifying, personally as well as professionally, to approach Arthur Ashe Stadium from almost any direction and see those highway signs of various size and shape

LONDON—It was hard to know what was coming next on Tuesday at Wimbledon, from the matches to the skies. One minute you might look up and see black clouds hovering, the next bright sky for miles. It went from chilly to humid and back again over the course of the