Macby Pete Bodo Howdy. First off, sorry for being MIA for so long and thanks for being patient. It just turned out that there was so much good material produced in my interview with John McEnroe on Tuesday that we decided to use some of the material in a feature

WATCH: In contrast to the growing picture of ATP rage, Davidovich Fokina brings a lighter energy that is no less competitive through his run in Monte Carlo.

WATCH: Potapova's nine-match winning streak—which featured a maiden WTA title in Istanbul—ended at the Mutua Madrid Open against former No. 1 NaomI Osaka.

“It’s a very, very, very long story.” It always is with Timea Bacsinszky, a former No. 9 and Olympic silver medalist determined to leave the sport the way she played it. An interview is just another opponent for the beloved Swiss star, who trades spin for self-reflection to effortlessly craft

MIAMI, Fla.— With his signature curly hair and glasses, Redfoo is hard to miss as he walks among the crowd of tennis fans at the Miami Open presented by Itau. And this week, he’s been turning heads for a completely different reason. While he’s best known as one-half of the

In twoearlier posts on the elite men players of the Open Era, I mostly looked backwards. Now it's time to bring the story to the present day. As I write this, the last Masters tournament of 2007 has gone into the record books - and once again, David Nalbandian has

WATCH: Mattek-Sands and Swiatek surge into their first Grand Slam semifinal as a team at Roland Garros.

What's up, dawg? I caught your gold medal doubles performance in Beijing the other day and just want to say, wa-a-a-a-aaaay to go! When I saw you up on that medal podium, rockin' the red-and-white Swiss team warm-ups with a gold medallion worthy of Mr. T (don't even think about

This weekend, as Roland Garros gets underway, I'm doing a two-part look inside the mind of its only seven-time men's champion, Rafael Nadal, with clinical psychologist, Alexandra Guhde, Psyd. Alexandra is also the author of the tennis blog Extreme Western Grip. ** Alexandra, Since your last psychological study of the

New reader alert: there have been some great questions raised in the post below, so I am continuing to answer the queries solicited in my recent Any Questions? post. Are you all finding this helpful and fun? I know a rolling post can be tough, as it forces you to

We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold... Oops. Sorry. Wrong road trip. I was just outside Childress, TX, when the Red State Road Trip really got launched, but maybe it's worth going back in time a little to, um,

“Nobody knows anything” was a pithy description of Hollywood coined by screenwriter William Goldman in the 1980s. What he meant was, if anyone said they had a clue as to what had made a movie a hit or what had made it a bomb, that person was lying. Reading and

NEW YORK—Everyone loves a good story, and the saga of Victor Estrella Burgos is about as good as it gets in the persistently upscale world of tennis. It’s the tale of a poor boy from the Dominican Republic, which qualifies as one of the game’s backwaters, who worked tirelessly, overcame

[Ed. Note: Hey, Tribe. Codepoke, whose real name is Kevin Knox, filed this Battlefield Report shortly before I left for vacation. This is one bad ex-diesel mechanic, beating up on an elderly Polish gentleman who coaches 'poke's own son. Enjoy, and in the coming days I hope more of you

by Pete Bodo Long after this Australian Open is over, after the Rafa Slam issue is settled and the Roger Resurgent theme has run it's course, long-view fans may come to think of it has the tournament that pre-figured a changing of the guard in men's tennis. For while a

WATCH: Fernandez made a winning return to action at the National Bank Open, where she scored a three-set victory over Storm Sanders in front of home fans.

The year’s first Grand Slam is in the books, with Jannik Sinner and Madison Keys crowned Australian Open champions—and it’s nearly a podium sweep for their shared apparel sponsor Nike, who outfitted three of the four singles finalists in Melbourne. But it wasn’t just the big names that waves Down

Super Bowl Sunday is upon us, and the world will be watching. That includes the tennis world—expect your social media timelines to be scattered with reactions to the game, the halftime show and the commercials from many of your favorite players. And your favorite writers. While Steve Tignor, TENNIS.com’s resident

Court Report—ITF and WTA issue statements on Serena-Ramos controversy at US Open: