There’s no shortage of turning points in tennis history; you can make virtually any match into one retrospectively. The two highlighted above, if not full-fledged pivotal moments, at least qualify as significant milestones in racquet history. The first was Chris Evert’s 7-5, 6-4 win in the 1978 U.S. Open final

LONDON—I had thought, as I walked to the newsstand this morning in the warmest air we’ve had here in 10 days, that I might get a Sunday morning break, that the news and the headlines and the gossip and all of the other printed nonsense would slow down and pay

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 the same year that the United States sent a rocket to the moon,

This week TENNIS.com will be featuring one of our blog regulars, Asad Raza, who is in Rome for the men's Italian Open. He'll be writing back and forth with me here a couple times; reporting on the home page; and blogging over at Pete's as well.Hi Steve,

Grand Slam champions always look their best—their happiest and most relaxed—when they’re making the rounds with the winner’s trophy the day after a major final. You've seen the pictures: Rafael Nadal lounging on the Arc de Triomphe, Roger Federer smiling at the top of the Empire State Building, Victoria Azarenka

It was a fairly slow week on the pro tours, so I’ll start with a little historical digression. For TENNIS’ 40th anniversary, we’ve been selecting the 40 greatest players of the last four decades. Whenever anyone tries this sort of thing, they inevitably hear the phrase, “you can’t compare eras.”

For a long time I wondered why I liked watching tennis on clay so much, and why it looked so different, so much more flowing, than it does on hard courts. Finally a friend clued me in: “I think it’s the sliding.” Oh right, the sliding. That was it. Why

The wilderness weeks are over. Since the U.S. Open just one month ago, the tours have scattered themselves over the globe—in that time, the men have traveled to nine cities, the women 13—but aside from Davis and Fed Cup there hasn’t been anything you could say was essential viewing. The

The U.S. Open is not an easy event. You learn that from the first two announcements you hear at the National Tennis Center after you’ve made the long trek across the boardwalk from the No. 7 train. As you approach the gates, someone with a bullhorn reassures you, “Relax, you’re

Caroline Garcia threw her arm high in the air and brought it down hard in frustration. On the one hand, the reaction was understandable: She had just missed a return of serve and allowed her opponent, Donna Vekic, to hold serve. On the other hand, it was a little weird:

“I think it will be a bit of fun,” Nick Kyrgios said of the prospect of playing mixed doubles with Venus Williams at Wimbledon. “I think we’re a bit of a danger pair as well if we serve well. The crowd will definitely get behind us.” So far, Kyrgios is

What does a tennis prodigy need most? “Weapons” are high on everyone's list, and for good reason. Serena Williams, Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Maria Sharapova: The most successful players can create their own pace and fire their winners from anywhere. Movement has become ever more crucial over the last 10

NEW YORK—Tommy Haas wants to go out of tennis on his own terms, not be forced out by injury. The German-born, naturalized American player would like his daughter, Valentina, just over nine months old, to see him play. But will he do what it’ll likely take to make that happen?

ESTORIL, Portugal—It was T. S. Eliot who called April the cruelest month. He wasn’t thinking of the Estoril Open, but he might as well have been. After days of drizzle that kept players off the practice courts and nights punctuated by torrential downpour—and bars in Lisbon are the approximate size

PARIS (AP)—Andy Roddick slipped, then kicked the dirt. He chirped at the umpire about a call. When an unlucky bounce cost him a key point, he waved his arms in disgust. And at the finish, he raised his fist to celebrate a French Open triumph. Roddick’s clay-court season began Tuesday,

After suffering a 6-3,7-5 defeat against the dynamic Canadian Bianca Andreescu in the final of the US Open four months ago, Serena Williams was clearly not happy with either the outcome or the way she had played. It was her fourth consecutive loss in a major final across a two

NEW YORK—As games go, it was a heartbreaker, and when it was over—after Maria Sharapova followed up that break of serve with a match-clinching hold to beat Marion Bartoli, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4—you were entitled to pay homage to Sharapova’s well-documented fighting spirit. But you could also easily conjure up that

Some of you may remember Blow-Up, the 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni movie that is still considered a seminal piece of film by many of the usual art-crowd suspects, and not just because of that eerie final scene, featuring two clowns (or is it mimes? No, maybe it's illusionists! Oh, heck, what

(Ed. note: Here's the latest update from TennisWorld's man in Shanghai, mechanical watch freak, vintage car rally enthusiast, and master of the forehand dropshot, Miguel Seabra - Pete) Hi there. It’s late, and I see you’ve been handed some food for thought earlier in the day, So here’s something from

By Pete Bodo Before we get down to business, let me make one point. There were howls of outrage the other day when I playfully suggested that Roger Federer was trying to bamboozle us when, with a perfectly straight face, he suggested that Nikolay Davydenko was an overlooked threat to