So far during the lockdown, Rafael Nadal has grown a beard and shaved it, played backyard volley games with his sister, helped raise money for the Red Cross, backed the idea of an ATP-WTA merger, and been trounced by Andy Murray in virtual tennis. Even on cyber-clay in “Madrid,” he

A quick perusal of Google reveals that there are books offering us “the wit and wisdom” of any number of celebrities past and present, real and fictional. Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, Ronald Reagan, Tyrion Lannister, the Crawley family of Downton Abbey: They all, apparently, have something to teach us about

“He’s always the same,” Feliciano Lopez once said of Rafael Nadal. Rafa’s friend and Davis Cup teammate described him as perpetually upbeat and friendly. “Like a kid”—minus the mood swings. Lopez made this comment a few years ago, but it felt more relevant than ever on Sunday. That’s when Nadal

So far this spring, only a few, tentative buds have formed on the trees outside my windows in northern New Jersey. Technically, we’re two weeks into spring, but what we mostly see here are bare branches, reaching up for the sky and waving back and forth in the raw April

There is no city that combines beauty, history, art, culture and food quite like Paris. Known as the City of Light, the stunning capital of France has played host to some of the world’s greatest artists, writers, thinkers and tennis players. Home to the only Grand Slam played on clay,

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A cartoon of Serena Williams that has been widely condemned as a racist depiction of the tennis great has been partially reprinted on the front page of the Melbourne-based newspaper that initially published it. The Herald Sun newspaper printed an edited portion of the cartoon —

NEW YORK—Carlos Alcaraz was the only thing that kept Jannik Sinner from utterly dominating the ATP Tour in 2024. The Spaniard not only holds the Roland Garros and Wimbledon titles, but a 3-0 record over the world No. 1 from Italy this past season. So it seemed a little peculiar

Before the start of 2025 members of our very own TENNIS.com panel asked if 2025 could be a make-or-break season for Holger Rune, a player with obvious potential but one who was falling behind Slam-winning peers like Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner. As of Indian Wells, the former world No.

The static air, the tube lighting, the faint background hum of a thousand electrical outlets. By Thursday evening, there was no stopping me, I had to get out of the press room. I walked out and past the uniformed door monitors in navy-blue police caps that are too big for

PARIS (AP) What a horrific dilemma this could be. The men's 100 meter sprint final and men's tennis final fall on the same day, Aug. 5, at the London Olympics. If forced, which would you miss: Usain Bolt possibly becoming the first man since Carl Lewis to win the 100

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) Just in case there were any doubts out there, Serena Williams wants to make perfectly clear that she's going to be around tennis awhile longer. So is older sister Venus. `I have no intention of stopping, and I don't think she does either. We're definitely connected at

KEY BISCAYNE, Fla.—Sometimes, a weakness is a blessing in disguise, and a flaw can bear surprisingly sweet fruit. When Andy Roddick ventured forth on the pro tour, he toted a massive serve, a bone-crushing forehand, and a sanguine love of competition. They were enough to earn him a Grand Slam

After more than a week of lies, hypocrisy, partisan bickering, bureaucratic bumbling and the inevitably idiotic comparison to the crucifixion of Jesus — by his own father, no less — the Novak Djokovic story still boils down to this: He threw away a chance to make history at the Australian

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It might be tempting to see some tidy symbolism and greater significance in Novak Djokovic’s loss to Jannik Sinner in the Australian Open semifinals. The end of the thirtysomething Djokovic's 33-match winning streak at Melbourne Park. The end of his bid for an 11th championship there and 25th Grand Slam

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