The Australian Open will lose something without Nick Kyrgios, and without the fans for the next five days. But Dominic Thiem will still be there, and he may be better for the experience he had in John Cain Arena on Friday night. “Honestly, I was already almost on my way

PARIS—Victoria Azarenka has won only two of her last seven matches. For one of the tour's most promising 20-and-unders, who won Miami last year and has been ranked as high as No. 6, it's a run that requires some explanation, particularly after her French Open campaign ended in a 6-1,

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP)—Rafael Nadal’s bid to win four straight Grand Slam tournaments is over. The injured Nadal lost for the second straight year in the Australian Open quarterfinals, going down 6-4, 6-2, 6-3 Wednesday to fellow Spaniard David Ferrer. Nadal, who appeared to have tears in his eyes during a

NEW YORK (AP)—Novak Djokovic matched his nearly perfect season with an almost flawless performance in Monday’s U.S. Open final, returning brilliantly and swatting winners from all angles to beat Rafael Nadal 6-2, 6-4, 6-7 (3), 6-1. In a final full of lengthy, mesmerizing points, the No. 1-ranked Djokovic claimed his

I was going to write Lindsay Davenport for my blog over at ESPN, but at the last minute my buddy over there, the consummately professional Keith Hawkins, asked me if I could write about Lamar Hunt. who died early this morning in Dallas. My post should be up at ESPN

Each day during the Australian Open, Richard Pagliaro will preview three must-see men's and women's matches—and offer his predictions.

Each day during the Australian Open, Richard Pagliaro will preview must-see matches—and offer his predictions.

A week after favorites fell in the U.S. Open semifinals, home teams own the advantage in the Davis Cup final four. Our previews, and predictions, of the action starting Friday:

When Australian immigration officials rejected tennis star Novak Djokovic's medical exemption from a COVID-19 vaccination requirement and canceled his Australian visa, they set off a storm of ramifications — bureaucratic, political and legal. The world's top male tennis player spent four days in a dowdy Melbourne immigration detention hotel among

HIGHLIGHTS: Unseeded Barbora Krejcikova wins Roland Garros

Tennis is often scorned as hidebound and stodgy, unwilling to remake itself to attract the half-pipe generation. That’s nonsense, of course. Is there another sport that’s changed its most basic elements—racquets and playing surfaces—as radically as tennis has in the last three decades? But four times a year, Davis Cup

Novak Djokovic made this statement on Saturday in Madrid, after his semifinal win over Kei Nishikori. What were “these things” that he had gone through, exactly? Djokovic was referring to the fact that, while serving for the match at 5-4 in the second, he had blown a 40-0 lead before

Many tennis fans believe that their sport has to be the craziest and most poorly run of all. Why else would we have all of these dynamic young athletes from around the world, yet still labor in the shadows of provincial team sports, not to mention that walking and tapping

We know Andy Murray as a Scot, and primarily as a hard-court player. But he’s returning to another home of his this week on the clay courts of Barcelona. Murray spent three years, from ages 15 to 18, training and sometimes living at the Sanchez-Casal Tennis Academy outside the city.

I'm always a little stunned by the day's events when I'm on the West Coast. By the time I turn on the TV in the morning, it's the second half of a college basketball game, Obama has made three speeches, and people are killing each other in Florida. Today I

MELBOURNE—Yesterday it was star time. We had Kim, we had Roger and Juan Martin, we had Rafa, we had the infamous Australian summer heat. By the time it was over, it felt like we were in full Slam mode. This morning it’s quiet again in Melbourne, and cooler. We like

INDIAN WELLS, CALIF.—This tournament has become known, among other things, as the ATP’s yearly showcase for doubles. By which I mean that the event coaxes at least a couple of the Top 4 singles players, the bankable stars, to enter the dubs draw. The fact that doubles for these guys

WATCH—Court Report on Simona Halep pulling out of WTA Finals:

NEW YORK—Newspaper thief, newspaper thief, don’t you know that you’re making my job more difficult? I guess he—or I suppose it could be a she—wouldn’t care. Just because you steal someone’s New York Times every chance you get doesn’t mean you would also read my Grounds Pass every morning. I’d

MELBOURNE—Talk about an epic. Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray started their match around 7:45 P.M. Friday night; I filed my post on it this morning at 4:25 A.M. I wondered if I was just a slow writer, until I saw a Tweet from the Herald-Tribune’s Chris Clarey. He was finishing