From 1977 to 1985, the Australian Open concluded the tennis year. So it was that during this period, the tennis world commenced its Grand Slam season at Roland Garros. As the 1983 French Open got underway, Martina Navratilova was at the height of her powers. Twelve months earlier, showing off

Garbine Muguruza has some pointed words for her coach, and the cameraman, during a changeover (Caution: language):

MASON, Ohio (AP) — Simona Halep moved within a victory of the No. 1 ranking. The second-ranked Halep needed just 54 minutes to cruise past Sloane Stephens 6-2, 6-1 on Saturday in the Western & Southern Open semifinals, and can displace Karolina Pliskova as the top of the ranking with

“What’s wrong with U.S. tennis?” Among pundits and the American public, it’s a question that never goes out of style. I thought it might be different at this year’s Australian Open, a tournament in which 17 U.S. players reached the second round, four U.S. women made the second week, and

Earlier-than-expected losses; no titles for several months—and counting; questions about form: Those are all circumstances world No. 3 Simona Halep is going through as she begins her 2019 Mutua Madrid Open campaign. She defeated qualifier Margarita Gasparyan, 6-0, 6-4, on Sunday in a solid opening round performance. In what might

“I’m a different person. Everything changed,” Simona Halep said after her 7-6 (4), 6-1 win over Shuai Zhang at Wimbledon on Tuesday. “It’s a new year, new edition.” If you’ve followed Halep’s career with any degree of regularity, you know that the Romanian has made this statement, or something approximating

On what turned out to initially be a tough day for Americans in action at the Australian Open Friday, which included Serena Williams being sent packing by Wang Qiang in a shocking upset, Alison Riske weathered the storm to set another fourth-round Slam showdown with world No. 1 Ashleigh Barty.

Earlier this year, Danielle Collins revealed some heart-stopping news: a cyst a size of a tennis ball had been causing her severe pain for years. After undergoing endometriosis surgery to remove it, the 27-year-old American opened the start of the most inspirational chapter of her career. Collins has experienced a

FLASHBACK: Coco Gauff discusses qualifying onto her first U.S. Olympic team

PARIS (AP) — Ben Shelton compared himself to a Major League Baseball left-hander after a painful shoulder prevented him from playing his best in a 6-4, 6-2, 6-1 third-round loss to Felix Auger-Aliassime at the French Open that concluded on Saturday after being suspended a night earlier because of rain.

Is it possible to call a week with five different tournaments a quiet one? If it’s tennis, and it’s the middle of the clay season, the answer is yes. The first big spring European tournaments—Monte Carlo and Barcelona for the men, Stuttgart for the women—are in the books, and the

Tennis Channel Live: The American men at this year's US Open

Rafael Nadal and Karen Khachanov played another dramatic match this summer, at the Rogers Cup:

We know that the number of break points a player saves in a given match can be a crucial statistic. But what about the number of game points he or she saves? The ability to break serve after your opponent has reached game point is a measure of a player’s

There are certain ways we expect tennis players to win matches. They can serve big. They can use their forehands to control the rallies. They can turn themselves into human backboards. They can pressure their opponents and, every once in a while, attack the net. But not many do it

Last year, for the 50th anniversary of TENNIS Magazine, we focused on the past. Given the tome of stories we’d told, and the trove of players and matches we’d witnessed over the past half-century, it was only natural to look back. And it was comical to even consider doing something

Hi Steve, It's been nice to see generation next having a good week. If these are the players who are going to step onto centre stage over the next few years, there's a lot of fun tennis to be played. Looking at players 20 and under, the group that seems

“That’s part of the life,” Rafael Nadal said, with a characteristically stoical shrug of his shoulders, as he announced his withdrawal from Roland Garros on Friday in front of a packed interview room at the event. “And that’s part of my career, too.” Nadal said he had felt gradually increasing

NEW YORK— “I mean, look, I know about Next Gen tournament, because all I hear these few days is Next Gen, Next Gen...” Those were the (slightly irritated) words of Novak Djokovic in Rome this spring after he was asked one too many times about the inaugural Next Gen Finals,

As big a deal, as significant an accomplishment, as it was for Novak Djokovic to eliminate Rafael Nadal in the French Open semifinals, there is still another match to play in Paris. And that https://apnews.com/article/europe-french-open-tennis-sports-b6769b3b99a8e5fa74b605382cb057b1 really won't mean much to Djokovic in the scheme of things if he can't finish