As a friend put it about this particular story, sometimes a narrative can seem to arrive both tardily and prematurely. And so it goes. TIME magazine has propped up Naomi Osaka on its most recent cover, terming her "The Heir" to Serena Williams' stranglehold on superstardom in women's tennis. The

Same string, same tension. That’s the common request for most recreational players when it comes time to restring their racquets. That is, of course, if they’re bothering to restring their racquets at all. String neglect is one of the cardinal sins of everyday players. They think if it’s not broken,

It'll be youth versus wisdom on Friday night at the Australian Open. Roger Federer, seeking his 20th Grand Slam title, takes on 21-year-old Hyeon Chung. Chung has made history by becoming the first-ever South Korean to reach the semifinals of a major. The world No. 58 did so in style,

Mornin'. It's official. I now declare TennisWorld an asylum run by the inmates; it's been like this ever since the start of the Australian Open, when y'all started transforming this blog into General HQ for all things pertaining to The Grand Slam of Asia/Pacific, or, as it's known all round

Amelie Good morning all. It looks like another warm sunny day outside, although one or two showers might develop later on in the afternoon. Tennis begins at noon (7 a.m. EST) on the outside courts, and an hour later on the two main show courts. Today's Order of Play can

PARIS (AP) -- A French chair umpire on the futures and challenger tours became the first official to be suspended for corruption by the Tennis Integrity Unit when he received a life ban on Tuesday. The charges against 22-year-old Morgan Lamri breached four articles of the TIU's anti-corruption program in

This will be your match-calling and US Open "live" post for today. I want to remind those who would plan or would like to attend the Friday night, August 31st gathering (in Manattan) to RSVP to Heidi; the deadline for responding is Tuesday (tomorrow) night, 9 PM. For those of

By Rosangel Valenti, TW Contributing Editor Good mornng. As usual, this is the post for discussing the day's tennis action at the USTABJKNTC in Flushing Meadows. Today's Order of Play can be found on this link. Given the large number of visitors we're seeing during this event, we'd be grateful

Okay, it isn't supposed to be this way at the tail end of the year, after all the Grand Slams are done, but if you read this BBC preview of the Andy Murray-Rafael Nadal dust-up scheduled for today, you could be forgiven for slipping back into Monte Carlo, Queens, or

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Basketball fans may have done a double take upon seeing the Australian Open schedule on Sunday: Matthew Dellavedova was playing his first-round match on Court 7. It wasn't the Australian-born NBA player, though. It was his cousin, 16-year-old Matthew Dellavedova, who's entered in the boys' singles

Mirra Andreeva knows what time it is. The 17-year-old announced on social media Tuesday that she had picked up a Rolex sponsorship following a second-week run at the 2025 Australian Open. “Can’t wait for this journey together!✨😁” captioned the world No. 15, who added the hashtag #rolexfamily.

Daria Kasatkina was incorrectly listed as representing Spain during the official draw ceremony for the Mubadala Abu Dhabi Open on Sunday, fueling what her management later called "incorrect" speculation that she will be, or has any plan to, switch nationalities. The tournament later apologized for what it called an "administrative

by Pete Bodo We haven't had much chance to cruise the news lately, what with back-to-back Masters/Premier events in recent weeks, but before we get to that I have to confess that I was a little harsh on Richard Gasquet in yesterday's Thumbs Up/Down post. While Reeshard didn't earn a

PRESS CONFERENCE: Bucket-hatted Carlos Alcaraz fields reporters' questions at Wimbledon

Indian Wells is played in March, but the sight of its sun-baked surroundings always makes it feel as if a new tennis year is upon us. The BNP Paribas Open marks the start of a sprint that, between now and early July, takes the pros across the Atlantic and through

The eight-woman field is set for the WTA Finals in Singapore, and not a day too soon: The tournament starts on Sunday. But the 2015 year-ender is just as notable for who won’t be there: Three-time defending champion Serena Williams, who shut her season down early to heal the aches

So after all of the controversy, the blue clay turns out to be . . . boring and conventional? My initial glimpses of it over the last few weeks had made it seem like a cool novelty—“Wow, the clay is a different color.” But after three hours of watching actual

*100368296 by Pete Bodo The headlines come in from Stuttgart and Prague, Bastad, Ljubljana (that would be the Slovenia Open) and Palermo. Yes, there is life after Wimbledon! Players not named Federer, Nadal, Williams or Clijsters are struggling as mightily as ever in tennis' version of a dog chasing its

"I know that Sloane got elected because every day she came up to me and asked me to vote for her,” Naomi Osaka says with a laugh when asked about the new WTA Players’ Council. Former US Open champion Sloane Stephens is one of five fresh faces to join the

Before we leave the Sony Ericsson Open. I just want acknowledge the man behind it, tournament founder Butch Buccholz. This is a great event - it has been, through its long and rich history. And Buccholz is one of the great men in tennis. You need to read some of