WATCH: Roger Federer's full interview (9:13) with Tennis Channel's Jim Courier and Steve Weissman on June 3 at Roland Garros.

FROM RUSSIA, WITH LOVE Both tours convened at the Kremlin Cup in Moscow last week, and the final outcomes could have scarcely been more different. The women’s WTA 500-level event saw the second seeds, Jelena Ostapenko and Katerina Siniakova come away with the indoor title. Playing together for the first

Doubles Take previews the last Grand Slam of 2020, the French Open. It’s cold. It’s wet. Fans are few and far between. The balls are different. Plus, clay-court tennis has rarely been played this late in the year. The teams vying for Grand Slam glory at the French Open will

The world has seen near-constant coverage of Maria Sharapova since her return to the sport last month in Stuttgart. The players who have shared their opinions on the five-time Grand Slam champion have all gotten their moments in the spotlight, too. Kristina Mladenovic has joined the fray—once again—by spilling her

Mornin' folks. Are you ready for the semis? Some of you might appreciate this video featuring Jet Boy's long-lost twin brother, whom Uncle Toni has been keeping in reserve, should our current model get into a slump, or decide the become a surfer dude instead of a tennis player. But

*993308 by Pete Bodo Good mornin', folks. I have a new post up at ESPN basically celebrating Rafa Nadal and Justine Henin. Between the two of them, they own eight Roland Garros singles titles, and the events of the last week suggest that as the countdown to Paris continues they've

Is Iga Swiatek ready to win a Grand Slam title on grass? This is the first question we have to ask about the women’s tournament. Everything else right now is contingent on the answer. Swiatek is the long-running WTA No. 1, a multiple major winner, and she comes in having

NEW YORK -- Lleyton Hewitt displayed the same shots and grit that earned him a U.S. Open trophy and the No. 1 ranking a dozen years ago. Now 32, and ranked 66th, Hewitt came back to surprise 2009 champion Juan Martin del Potro 6-4, 5-7, 3-6, 7-6 (2), 6-1 Friday

INDIAN WELLS, Calif. -- Facing an opponent he had never seen play, Novak Djokovic relied on some old-fashioned word of mouth. Asking around the locker room and getting some intel from his coach, Djokovic went out and beat Alejandro Gonzalez 6-1, 3-6, 6-1 on Tuesday, ending the Colombian's surprising run

Cell phones sprouted from raised arms in the crowd poised to capture Roger Federer’s match-point moment after only about an hour of play today. A stubborn Paul-Henri Mathieu wasn’t willing to comply with the photo-op. The French qualifier saved a match point and was two points from winning a hard-court

Parents of newborn children crave quiet time, but tennis' most famous father turned the solitude of Centre Court into a playpen. Thumping 25 aces off the back wall and gliding around the court smoothly, Roger Federer dismissed Gilles Muller, 6-3, 7-5, 6-3, to cruise into the Wimbledon third round for

NEW YORK—The fuse was lit yesterday for an explosive match between two of the more successful and promising young American women, but the spark on Arthur Ashe Stadium quickly fizzled out and the much-anticipated cross between celebration and competition turned out to be a dud. Sloane Stephens, the 20-year-old No.

MIAMI, Fla.—For a long time on this chilly, breezy evening on Key Biscayne, Kei Nishikori looked like a boy sent to do a man’s job. It wasn’t just his relatively small stature (he’s 5-foot-10) in a game increasingly dominated by bigger specimens, his sloped shoulders, or even the way that,

Mornin', folks. I've got an ESPN chat coming up in about 20 minutes, and will be back with a post after that. Meanwhile, when I opened up the email from the ATP Tour this morning to see the results from Indianapolis, I finally felt like the US Open Series is

*MonteCarlo By Jackie, TW Social Director Is it Friday already? Time flies when you're not checking an OoP every day ... though I imagine many of you are still doing so. Where tennis goes, the TWibe is sure to follow. Still, I'm excited for Monte Carlo, as evidenced by my

MONACO -- Novak Djokovic will have a crack at toppling Rafael Nadal in the Monte Carlo Masters final for a second straight year. Despite their respective injury concerns, they will meet for the 16th time in a championship. Nadal leads 8-7 in their finals. "I am not the kind of

MASON, OHIO—An all-Swiss semifinal match in Cincinnati began with the truth that nothing was going to take either Roger Federer or Stanislas Wawrinka by surprise. "I don’t need to see Stan play, really. He doesn’t need to see me play. We know each other very well," Federer said. Too well,

Stress was spiking as Argentine qualifier Federico Delbonis spun a forehand smack off the baseline in the sixth game of the second set prompting Roger Federer to kick the red clay creating a rising cloud of frustration. Federer debuted his new Wilson racquet in Hamburg this week, but Delbonis found

NEW YORK—It’s been said of actors that they bring baggage to each new role, but they don’t have anything on tennis players. From their years in the juniors, pros begin to accumulate enough ghosts and demons that by their early twenties, many of them have become one-man haunted houses of

MELBOURNE, Australia -- Victoria Azarenka advanced to the Australian Open quarterfinals with a 6-1, 6-1 win over Elena Vesnina on Monday, growing more confident she can repeat the winning roll that resulted in her first Grand Slam title here last year. "It's getting there ... with every match you start