[Ed. Note: A few Tribe members filed this report after coming back from Miami. Enjoy their experiences!] NDK, 3.22.07 - Checking into the J.W. Marriott hotel, I politely asked the staff if there were any famous tennis players staying there. Of course, I got the standard reply: Ma’am, we can't

Tennis Channel's year-long celebration of the WTA Tour's 50th anniversary, brought to you by Intuit Quickbooks, continues with Chapter 5: Venus & Serena. (Watch our feature video above.) - For Chapter 1, Thank You, Gladys, CLICK HERE - For Chapter 2, Red Hot Women's Tennis, CLICK HERE - For Chapter

Here's the second part of my Rally on sexism in tennis with Kristy Eldredge, who writes the blog Overhead Smash. Follow her @AnnKittenplan. You can see the first part of our discussion here. ** Kristy, I was thinking of our subject again yesterday while I was reading The Sea, by

This month the world celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Do you remember where you were when it happened? I have no clue myself. My only explanation is that I was in college. I was spending a semester at Pomona, a liberal arts school in

The Czech Republic’s ancient capital holds a special place in the hearts of all of us 1960s buffs. Prague’s famous spring of 1968 may have been the most dramatic rebellion of a season that fostered dozens of them. “Socialism with a human face” was a new concept for the Eastern

Today we bid adieu to a French Open that jolted us with surprise over the first week, especially on the women’s side, but which ended with two familiar faces holding the winner’s trophies. After a slow start to 2014, the Persistents—i.e. Maria Sharapova and Rafael Nadal—showed that they still pay

Hi Joel, After the last five days, tennis fans must have whiplash. On Wednesday, we heard the hopeful news that the tours will start up again in August, and the US Open, after much debate and discussion, will go ahead as planned. Then, as if on cue, we found out

Nickandgabe_3 photo by: Manuela Davies by Pete Bodo It's about 4 pm, and the nor'easter is spending itself outside; it's strange, but fewer than 24 hours ago I was basking in the warm Florida sunshine at the IMG Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy. Nick, Gabe Jarramillo (Nick's second in charge and

It's predictable: the big stars are positive about the idea of round-robin events while lower-ranked players aren't quite so sure. But Roger Federer is breaking ranks. How to make men's tennis a hotter ticket? After completing a radical overhaul of the doubles game last year, the ATP tour is now

WATCH: Nakashima dropped just one set en route to his first ATP title in San Diego last week.

WATCH: Swiatek is playing her first tournament since winning her eighth title of the season in San Diego.

WATCH: Defending Cincinnati champion Bornic Coric joined the Tennis Channel desk after his first-round win.

There was something different about Danielle Collins on Saturday in Miami. As always, the American showed us her fire. The max-volume screams of “Come on!” The commands to her coaches to “Stand up!” and “Talk to me!” The grunts that climb higher and higher as the points get more and

It’s an odd time for a Martina Hingis retrospective. At the moment, our vision of her is colored—tainted—by her recent, mysteriously sudden second retirement after a positive cocaine test. Maybe these two clips will help put her back in perspective. More than with any of the other players I’ve watched

The Shanghai Masters initially seemed like a good deal. I could tape it at 2:00 A.M. and get up and watch only what I wanted, or needed, to watch. But it turns out that there’s been a lot more of it than I bargained for so far, too much for

Foreign cities, to this visitor, are at their purest in the mornings, before they’ve been plowed over again by rush hour traffic and boiled by the sun. In Paris at 7:00 A.M. you’ll walk up a narrow side street, on a narrow stone sidewalk that’s still wet from the hose,

The Miami Open has long given pro tennis players the chance to occupy two contrasting and compelling worlds. There’s a high-stakes tournament and all of its attendant pressures and opportunities. Away from the tennis, Miami provides a sparkle all its own—Florida’s everlasting spring break, offering all the sizzle of a

From past experience, it had always been my considered opinion that the U.S. Open qualies were overrated. After attending them for many years in the early part of the decade, my memories boiled down to two: (a) stifling humidity coupled with a wide, blinding sun that fell just low enough

Since I last checked the world’s newspapers Friday morning, the general feeling about the 2012 Olympics appears to have done a 180. Leave it to a really, really long opening ceremony to silence the doubters and kvetchers. Danny Boyle’s epic wiped away, at least for the moment, those drab concerns

NOT INDIAN WELLS—One thing you realize after a few days at the BNP Paribas Open is that you’re not really meant to be there for that long. You’re not meant to hear the MC on the stadium court yell, “Make some noise, people!!!” as the players walk on court four