As she’s worked her way back up to No. 2 in the rankings on the strength of claiming her most recent Grand Slam titles in New York and Melbourne, Naomi Osaka has garnered a tremendous amount of support from her boyfriend, the Grammy-nominated rapper Cordae.

Fifteen years on the ATP World Tour will have its effects on a player. And more than 12 years after entering his first tour final, having dropped all five along the way, Gilles Muller had to start wondering: Would he ever bag a championship? He did just that on Saturday,

Baseline is looking ahead to the new year by showcasing 21 players under 21 to watch out for in '21. To make the coveted list, players must be born in 2000 or later. Not since perhaps Fabrice Santoro has a Frenchman disrupted the Roland Garros draw with an other-worldly ability

In 2016, Madison Keys joined FearlesslyGirl, an organization that aimed to stop bullying in its tracks and to empower young girls. This week, Keys announced her newest initiative "Kindness Wins," which will spread kindness off and on the court.

Consider this: Per 2014 International Tennis Federation information, 336 male tennis players earned enough money to break even or better on the ATP World Tour. Meanwhile, just 253 of their female peers on the WTA Tour did the same. This disparity is precisely what the likes of Venus Williams, Billie

Aspiring tennis pros often run afoul of the laws governing military service, especially in nations where such service is compulsory. The most recent example was that of Marcos Baghdatis, the Cypriot who lit up the Australian Open with his charmed run until Roger Federer carved him up like a classic

"What she gave to the game is what you would call priceless." —Venus Williams On the heels of ESPN's Venus Vs. film, the PBS documentary series American Masters will profile an athlete for the first time when its piece on Billie Jean King airs on September 10, just after the

89217740 Mornin', everyone. I'm hitting the road for Maryland early, so this will be brief. In Indianapolis, Frankie Dancevic, the pride of Niagara Falls (the Canadian side) is in the semifinals, and looking to beat two of three Americans (his next opponent, Sam Querrey and, potentially, the winner of the

MADRID -- Roger Federer withdrew from the Madrid Open on Tuesday to welcome the birth of his second set of twins. Federer said on his webpage early Tuesday he was pulling out of the tournament "to be with my wife Mirka during these next few exciting weeks for our family."

It seems too cute to be true, but there they are. A trio of trained dogs—named Oscar, Ted, and Super Teddy, no less—served as ball kids for an exhibition encounter between Venus Williams and Svetlana Kuznetsova at the ASB Classic, the WTA Tour event in Auckland, New Zealand. Here's the

The off-season may be here… … but on the ATP Tour, it’s officially been overtaken by engagement SZN! Just a few days after Casper Ruud shared that he had proposed to Maria Galligani, two of the Norwegian’s colleagues have also announced they’ve put a ring on it. Alexei Popyrin revealed

WATCH: Ruud held his nerve after rolling through the first two sets to reach his second straight Roland Garros semifinal.

PARIS—The most impressive athletes on the grounds of Roland Garros while away most of the day on a sunlit patch of grass, in the nook at the corner of a tournament office building, their work finished most days by 8:30 a.m. The three Harris Hawks and three Peregrine Falcons (two

For those of you interested in the junior game (that would be the kind of folks who knew, two weeks ago, who Marcos Baghdatis is, and what he’s capable of doing), I’ve de-briefed Colette Lewis, who’s here in Australia as the eyes of SMASHmagazine and blogging the junior game for

102746687 by Pete Bodo I hope you all had a good time at Deuce Club last night and today. I had originally intended to post on Davis Cup this morning, but then my house nearly burned down. We arrived at the farm in a massive downpour, around midnight, and as

WATCH—Roger Federer press conference after loss to Alexander Zverev:

At the halfway mark of this strange edition of Roland Garros, new names are being thrust in front of tennis fans as they watch on their screens around the world. Hugo Gaston, Iga Swiatek, Martina Trevisan, Leylah Fernandez and Norda Podonska have all offered promise for the future. And, in

Men’s-only Masters tournaments are modest events. The best guys in the world gather in relaxed environments, free of the tension that pervades the grounds at every Grand Slam. As exotic as the Italian Open sounds to us in the U.S., comparing it to the French Open is a little like

This year marks the 50th anniversary of TENNIS Magazine's founding in 1965. To commemorate the occasion, we'll look back each Thursday at one of the 50 moments that have defined the last half-century in our sport. In November 1973, Arthur Ashe fulfilled a long-held dream by traveling to South Africa

WATCH: Azarenka solved rival Kvitova in just under two hours in two tight sets in Indian Wells.