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

PARIS (AP)—Roger Federer made his way back into the French Open semifinals on Tuesday, and he’ll now get a chance to end Novak Djokovic’s perfect season. The 16-time Grand Slam champion advanced by beating Gael Monfils of France 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 (3), making it five straight-set wins in a row

WIMBLEDON, England (AP)—The King of Clay passed up a chance to meet the Queen of England. Rafael Nadal had another priority—winning at Wimbledon. Queen Elizabeth II visited the All England Club for the first time since 1977 and met a small group of current and former players, including Roger Federer

ESTORIL, Portugal—The other night, unable to sleep, I watched the modern triumph of the B-movie art that is Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus in which a prehistoric megalodon and a, well, giant octopus are unfrozen from an iceberg and eat an oil rig, a plane, the Golden Gate bridge and

Inside, one young American, Christina McHale, was preparing to speak at a news conference about reaching the third round with a surprise victory over a past Grand Slam finalist. Another, Irina Falconi, was on court, starting a match that would end with her waving a giant U.S. flag to celebrate

NEW YORK (AP)—Down a set in the first round of the U.S. Open, Maria Sharapova sat in her changeover chair, briefly closed her eyes, and took some deep breaths. “I knew,” she would say later, “that it wasn’t over.” Whatever problems she encountered Tuesday, whatever the level of her game,

When it comes to choosing a racquet, I’ve always been a fair-weather player. Nothing but a No. 1's frame will do for me. I started, in the early 1980s, with my first idol Bjorn Borg’s orange and black Donnay, a sledgehammer carved out of wood. Under pressure from the midsize

NEW YORK (AP)—Venus Williams says 30 is the new 20. Sam Querrey likes to think 20 could be No. 1. Thirty-year-old Williams is talking about age, and No. 20 Querrey is talking about seeding, but both are talking about the same thing when it comes to the U.S. Open. They’d

HOME—I play tennis at a club in Wilton, Conn., about 20 minutes from my home in Danbury, a city hugging the state line. I moved to the area just over two years ago, not knowing much about the state besides its preeminent college basketball team, the University of Connecticut Huskies.

WIMBLEDON, England (AP)—It was all about the serves at Wimbledon on Thursday, and it was Maria Sharapova and Petra Kvitova who survived the ups and downs on Centre Court to reach the final. The fifth-seeded Sharapova, who won the first of her three Grand Slam titles at the All England

PARIS (AP)—All that stands between Rafael Nadal and a fifth French Open title is the only player ever to beat him at Roland Garros. Nadal and Robin Soderling won semifinals Friday to set up a tantalizing rematch. Soderling pulled off a stunner when they met in the fourth round last

NEW YORK—In reaching the fourth round of the U.S. Open, 68th-ranked Donald Young has twice come back to win matches from two sets down. I didn't see any of his first turnaround, in the first round against No. 11 Gilles Simon, but I saw every point of his next trick,

by Pete Bodo If I were asked to play a game of word association and the subject would be Juan Martin del Potro, the first word that pops into my mind might be, "methodical." The second might be "nickname." What is it about this reticent, mellow, methodical colossus that invites

By Jackie Roe, TW Social Director

If we didn’t know better, we might be tempted to think that the off-season in tennis is too short. How else can you explain why Roger Federer is in the midst of a lengthy, six-match exhibition tour of South America (it started on Dec. 6 and ends on the 15th)?

Pic by Pete Bodo As Davis Cup wins go, it wasn't a particularly earth-shattering one, although it certainly required a game spirit and great bounce-back abilities from Roger Federer. The Swiss former No. 1 barely had time to recalibrate his fancy watch from New York to Sydney (Australia) time before

[Pete Bodo is on vacation, Thurs Feb 14th to Monday Feb. 25th. Meanwhile, enjoy the guest posts!] By Rosangel Valenti, TennisWorld Contributing Editor