NEW YORK—It was déjà vu all afternoon long in Ashe Stadium on Saturday. First we watched as Novak Djokovic pulled off a highly improbable repeat of his five-set semifinal win over Roger Federer from last year, right down to the match point saved with a bullet, all-or-nothing forehand into the

The game starts with the serve, literally, figuratively, and every which way. From the structure of the rallies to the confidence of the person hitting the serve, it all flows from there. “Flow,” however, was not a word that used to come to mind when you thought of Novak Djokovic’s

The more things change, the more they stay the same, right? Maybe the new phrase should be: The more things change, the less we notice. Before this week is over and we turn our attention to Rotterdam and Paris, let me take a minute to note that on Sunday, a

Carla Suarez Navarro, her cheeks nearly as red as the clay under her feet, shuffles slowly toward the baseline to serve. At 5’4”, she’s one of the least-intimidating presences among the top tier of women players, and she doesn’t do much, body-language-wise, to alter that impression. By the end of

NEW YORK—What do you get when you pack 22,000 Roger Federer fans together and let them tailgate through a rain delay for three hours? One very loud tennis crowd. Just how loud it was going to get inside Arthur Ashe Stadium on Sunday night was obvious from the moment that

When Serena Williams tossed the ball to serve at 4-1, 15-0 in the second set of the French Open final on Saturday, she must have thought the worst was finally behind her. The flu, the day spent in bed, the coughing fits, the three-set matches, the comebacks from the brink

Tommy Haas has never been like most of Roger Federer’s contemporaries; that is, he's never been just a whipping boy. Or at least that’s never how he’s seen himself. You wouldn’t know that from his career head-to-head record against Federer; coming into their final yesterday in Halle, Haas hadn’t beaten

Tennis has been transformed over the last five decades by TV, money, technology, equipment, fashion and politics. But through all of that, the players have remained at the heart of the game. As part of our golden anniversary celebration of the Open era, Tennis.com presents its list of 50 best

It had been four months since Serena Williams had played a match. Which meant that it had been four months since she had done her patented “ace walk.” You know the one; you’ve seen it a million times. It starts when Serena is challenged, briefly, on her serve. Her opponent,

Again the desert in the early morning offers a revelation. Walking onto the grounds at 10:00, godawful local radio ringing in my ears—really, is there a need for “Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin’” to be heard in 2008?; a pox on The Sopranos for exhuming Steve Perry from his shallow grave!—I see

Out with Fedberg, in with... Ljuberer? According to Roger Federer, that’s where he’s heading in 2016. The 17-time Slam winner announced this week that his coach of the last two years, Stefan Edberg, has been replaced by Ivan Ljubicic. Does this move come as a surprise? Does it feel like

These days, when I see Jack Sock walking from one side of the court to the other, with his baseball hat high on his head and a wry smile on his face, the words “ambling into history” come to my mind. That’s the title of a biography of George W.

The Aussie Open’s quarterfinals are here and it’s time to take stock. How did my early tournament predictions turn out? About the way I predicted (to myself)—nine of my final 16 were still hanging around on Monday. Of course, the women make any tennis bracketologist look good; six of my

TOKYO (AP) — Naomi Osaka is back playing, still winning, and also talking to the media again. The Japanese superstar who lit the Olympic cauldron defeated 52nd-ranked Zheng Saisai of China 6-1, 6-4 on Sunday in her first match in nearly two months. Osaka hadn't played since she withdrew from

PARIS (AP) — Maria Sakkari ended defending champion Iga Swiatek's 11-match and 22-set winning streaks at the French Open on Wednesday and reached the semifinals of a major tournament for the first time. The 17th-seeded Sakkari used strong and steady baseline play to eliminate Swiatek 6-4, 6-4 at Court Philippe

MADRID (AP) — Andy Murray had been in a similar position before, struggling and needing a big comeback to pull off an important victory. And like he’s done so many times in his career, he again came through with a big rally, this time to lead Britain to a victory

WATCH—Roger Federer on Laver Cup success and US Open shortcomings: The third and final day of the Laver Cup is upon us, and while it was always going to matter—it is impossible to amass the 13 points needed to clinch the trophy over the first two days—it's shaping up to

Sania Mirza, said to be the most Googled female tennis player in the world last year, is in Charleston right now and she’s rather busy. She and doubles partner Elena Vesnina, who won the Indian Wells doubles title together last month, are in the singles and doubles quarterfinals. Several years

LONDON—Sometimes a match you intended would function as a footnote to the day’s action turns out to be the best, or at least the most fully-realized, of the lot. That’s the way it works out with David Nalbandian’s match against Vasek Pospisil, shuffled to the smaller, more intimate surroundings of

In the corridors of power at the O2 Arena—home of the approaching ATP World Tour Finals—and hotels in central London, there is chatter going on about changing the method of calculating the men's rankings, going from a one-year/12-month cycle of results to a two-year/24-month cycle. Rafael Nadal, along with other