With no Miami Open this week, Baseline is looking back at some of the biggest upsets from the tournament during the 2000s. After finishing 2005 as the top-ranked junior in the world, Victoria Azarenka’s transition to the pros was fairly seamless, with the Belarussian steadily climbing up the rankings and

The tennis calendar appears to be a significant consideration for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as it begins tackling a multitude of logistical hurdles to reschedule the Tokyo 2020 Olympics next year. Earlier this week, organizers concluded postponing the Games until 2021 was the only option after numerous National Olympic

Long before COVID-19 and its detrimental effects forced countless forms of entertainment to be cancelled or postponed, The All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC) began preparing in January for a Plan B, C and so forth with staging its biggest event: Wimbledon. On Wednesday evening in London, the organization revealed

It was just over a week ago that the FFT moved Roland Garros to a September 20 start—a bold, unilateral decision made to give the organization better odds of staging the event this year. The following day, both the ATP and WTA released a joint statement conceding that the European

UPDATE: On Tuesday, it was officially announced that the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games will be postponed until 2021. From the Associated Press: The International Olympic Committee along with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and local organizers have decided that the Tokyo Games cannot go ahead as scheduled this year because

“If I show up to an arena and there are no fans in there, I ain’t playing.” Can you believe it was just 10 days ago that Lebron James, the most famous athlete in the United States, uttered those briefly infamous words? James long ago walked them back, of course,

INDIAN WELLS, Calif—The mood was a bit subdued mid-morning this past Monday in Tennis Channel’s production tent. It was the first day the on-site team had to fully process the aftershocks of the BNP Paribas Open being the first in a series of several tennis tournaments ultimately cancelled, as precautions

As the tennis tours begin an extended hiatus forced by the growing impact of coronavirus, there's still little indication of when tournaments might restart—and that is leading to increasing questions about the status of the French Open. The ATP Tour has suspended play until four weeks before Roland Garros, with

LOS ANGELES—Here in Los Angeles, a two-hour drive west of the recently cancelled BNP Paribas Open, many people actively involved in the tennis world are grappling with an unprecedented and dangerous situation. The tournament has long been a spring break of sorts for many of this city’s longstanding, well-populated and

Editor's Note: March 8, 2021 marks the one-year anniversary of the 2020 BNP Paribas Open cancellation, which soon became known as the day tennis stopped. TENNIS.com was on the ground when the historic decision was made by Indian Wells leadership, painting a picture of the impact initially felt by players

For now at least, the show will go on, in Phoenix. With the cancellation of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, the focus of the tennis world will switch gears, and states. The Phoenix Country Club is preparing to welcome players for its second-ever ATP Challenger event, the Arizona

There had to be a first domino to fall, a tip of the coming iceberg, and the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells turned out to be it. Unluckily for the event—but perhaps luckily for some fans who would have risked their health by attending it—the coronavirus reached the nearby

ROME (AP) — Sports ground to a halt throughout Italy late Monday night when Premier Giuseppe Conte announced that games and travel will be banned nationwide. “There’s no reason for the games to continue,” Conte said. “The fans will have to deal with it. We won’t even allow gyms to

The BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells demands much of its champions—no wonder, then, that five different women have won the 96-player event over the past five years. Before the WTA Premier Mandatory tournament begins this year in the desert, take a walk down memory lane at its champion's roll.

Pulling off the “Sunshine Double”—winning Indian Wells and Miami back-to-back—is one of the most impressive feats in tennis. Baseline is looking back at some of the rare accomplishments. The 2007 edition of the Masters 1000 event in Indian Wells, Calif., surely holds a special place in Novak Djokovic’s heart: By

It was the spring of 2017, and Sloane Stephens was sidelined with a foot injury. In her downtime, the future US Open champion tried her hand, and her sense of humor, as a talk-show host for Tennis Channel. Stephens was a natural, of course, and not afraid to dig into

Once upon a time, almost all leading singles players supplemented their incomes and expanded their horizons by competing in doubles. They celebrated being part of another forum, relishing the chance to join forces with partners that were often simultaneously friends. They viewed doubles as an obligation, and enjoyed the opportunity

Maria Sharapova shocked the wider sports world when she announced her retirement from professional tennis last week, via Vogue and Vanity Fair first-person pieces. The girl's got grit, as she said herself, and one thing that's surely not going anywhere is her sense of style. Then there was her softer

6 October 2013: The latest in a long line of showings, Sharapova revealed her sartorial maturation. However subtly, her style continued to evolve into a modern, over-25 woman's aesthetic, on down to the textured burgundy heels.

In Dubai and Doha, the final four stage is set. These are the Top 5 photos from Thursday's action. (All photos are Getty Images.) 1 Things got pretty sweet in Dubai as Novak Djokovic captured his 16th consecutive win. The world No. 1 had no issues dismissing No. 7 seed