Alexandra Eala made all kinds of history with her breakthrough run at the Miami Open over the last two weeks, but even though the tournament is now over, she’s not done breaking records. After reaching the semifinals of the WTA 1000-level tournament, she rises from No. 140 to No. 75

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Naomi Osaka is back in the winners’ circle for the first time in four years after capturing the title at L'Open 35 de Saint-Malo, a WTA 125 event in France. Playing in her first ever clay-court final, Osaka took down Kaja Juvan in straight sets, 6-1, 7-5 to claim the

ROME, Italy—Maria Sakkari’s post-match mixed zone had barely begun when she turned the tables on an unsuspecting journalist at the Internazionali BNL d’Italia: MARIA SAKKARI: I saw you yesterday. Q. You saw me when you were playing? MARIA SAKKARI: Listen, I have a great memory, and I’m very observant. I

From finalist at last year’s ATP Next Gen Finals to defeating former world No. 1 Daniil Medvedev at the Australian Open, Learner Tien is riding a wave of momentum, and tennis fans aren’t the only one taking notice. “It seems like he burst on the pro tour pretty fast, but

WATCH: Tennis Channel Live make their men's and women's singles picks for Roland Garros.

More than with most sports, to watch a tennis match is to concentrate and meditate on every miniscule aspect, every tic, of the two people on court. You can know a player by his forehand and his kick serve, but you can also know him by his grunt, his headband,

“At this time last year, I was somewhere in Europe getting treatment for my shoulder, just trying to find different medical perspectives on how to treat it and how to get it better.... It’s definitely great to be a year later in a situation where this is my fourth title

Everything is heightened on the day of a final. You can feel it and even see it around the grounds. Today at the Foro Italico the sky was clearer, the temperature was higher, the sun was brighter, the women were better looking. The ballgirls had shorter shorts and the line

Four thousand spectators populated the 5,000-seat stadium at Adelaide’s Memorial Drive Tennis Club for the exhibition that kicked off the 2021 tennis season in the final days of January. After taking part, Novak Djokovic was moved to tell the media: “I had goosebumps coming into the court playing in front

By Pete Bodo Ultimately, it may be remembered by tennis historians and students of the game as The Tiebreaker, II (That Bjorn Borg-John McEnroe 18-16 fourth-set tiebreaker in the 1980 Wimbledon final will always lack a numeral). Only this time, the theme wasn't the ferocity of the clashing wills or

NEW YORK—It was only a matter of time before the new Court 6 at Flushing Meadows was christened with an old-fashioned U.S. Open mob scene. But few, if any, expected that it would happen when it did on Tuesday. By the late afternoon, you could hear the tell-tale Open roar

Soon we’ll return to those traditional rituals of the off-season, the obligatory yet addictive year-end Top 10 lists of the best matches, most memorable moments, and most egregious golden handbags of 2009. We’ll be busier than usual this time around, since there’s also the little matter of summing up the

The flight is over—16 hours total to get across the country, seven of them slumped in O’Hare Airport. But it was worth it just to feel warm California air again. It’s been a while. Here’s an hourly report after opening day in Indian Wells. 6:00 A.M.: Fully awake after a

You begin a trip to the French Open looking for the French in it. As you make your way through the mass of humanity on the central pathway at Roland Garros, you notice the foreign elements: A happy cry of “C’est bon!” out of one ear, an abrupt “D’accord” out

What do we do now that the 2015 season is over and tennis is in its all-too-brief December recess? Go back and watch the best matches of the year, of course. Over the next two weeks, I’ll count down my 10 favorite contests, accompanied by video highlights, of this season.

Why do we watch tennis matches? It’s a minor, niggling little question, I know, but it wouldn’t leave my head Friday morning during the quarterfinal between Novak Djokovic and David Nalbandian in Monte Carlo. There you had a square red stage and an audience huddled over it, all next to

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Much of the hardcore tennis talk Cliff Drysdale and I engaged in during my recent visit will have no place in my story about him for Tennis magazine, so I'm going to sift it out and publish some of it here. I know that some of you are not well-schooled

PARIS (AP) The Latest on the French Open (all times local): 9:45 p.m. On the second weekend of May, Kiki Bertens took the first step on what, for the French Open semifinalist, has now become a storybook journey. The 58th-ranked player from the Netherlands was in Nuremberg, Germany, trying to