At times during her nearly 13-year career, Timea Bacsinszky has been branded, and played like, a star. At other, more disillusioned periods, she’s found herself somewhat off the radar. Ten days into the second major of 2017, the Swiss is officially back in the spotlight. Battling heavy winds, discouraging fans

As far as their places in the game go, Tomas Berdych and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga have a lot of similarities. They’re both 28, they’ve both reached one major final, and they’ve both spent the last few years trying, and not succeeding, to break the Big 4’s stranglehold on the game. But

This match has possibilities. Halep and Kerber each tend to get involved in epics at the majors, and they staged one of their own in Canada last year. After three sets and many long rallies in the summer heat, Halep staggered to victory, 6-4 in the third. With their speed

WIMBLEDON, England (AP)— American teenager Sloane Stephens failed in her bid to reach the fourth round at a second straight Grand Slam tournament, losing in three sets to Sabine Lisicki of Germany at Wimbledon on Friday. The 15th-seeded Lisicki, a semifinalist here last year, found some consistency on her groundstrokes

An all-American US Open semifinal on Thursday night produced two big winners in Sloane Stephens and Madison Keys. Loaded with talent and potential, the two friends have put together their best tennis at the most important time of the year.

Across the last two weeks of December, Baseline will dish out awards for the greatest acts of 2018. It’s one thing to get off to a good start when the tennis year begins. Maintaining a consistent level of play over the course of a long and grueling season is the

By 2008, fans had grown accustomed to seeing Roger Federer take on Rafael Nadal in the Wimbledon final, after the pair squared off for their sport's most prestigious title three years running. Nadal would win one of the greatest matches in history to claim his first major away from Roland

Wimbledon is the third Grand Slam tournament of the calendar year, taking place in the eponymous London suburb from late June through early July. It has been in existence since 1877 and is the last remaining Slam to be contested on grass. As the oldest tennis tournament in the world,

Nadia Petrova and Agnieszka Radwanska played for the first big title after the US Open. The Setting It wasn’t until she hit the grass before Wimbledon that Nadia Petrova reached her first final of the year, capturing the title in s’Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands. From there, the Russian posted some solid

On Friday, August 2, Sebastian Korda will look to get the better of Jordan Thompson. Korda, who I had as part of a winning two-leg parlay on Thursday, is only here because he hit one of the luckiest shots of the year. Thanasi Kokkinakis looked like he was about to

An unlikely final took place in 2014 in Barcelona between Kei Nishikori and Santiago Giraldo. From 2005 to 2009, Rafael Nadal dominated the Barcelona Open, winning the title for five straight years. After withdrawing from the 2010 event, the Spaniard picked up right where he left off, taking the title

Ryan Harrison has hired Tres Davis as his traveling coach to work alongside his father Pat, whom he is also working closely with. Harrison told TENNIS.com that he signed Davis to a one-year contract and is hopeful that their relationship will be stable. The two know each other from the

The 2016 French Open was the culmination of all-court excellence for Novak Djokovic—a masterful title run that completed a career Grand Slam. From his first-round match to his final championship point, it aired on Tennis Channel. In its 10th year of broadcasting Roland Garros, Tennis Channel allowed viewers to watch

Julien Farel, the hair stylist to the tennis stars, is having a very different US Open experience this summer. The Frenchman usually spends the fortnight working around the clock in his pop-up salon next to the player's lounge. Last year, he even styled champion Bianca Andreescu ahead of her trophy

Editor's Note: On Sunday, the 20-year-old Brooksby won his third ATP Challenger in four finals in 2021, and is 19-2 for the season, having just captured the hard-court event in Tallahassee. Read more about it here. Jenson Brooksby is still relatively unknown, but judging by the way he’s crushing it

Cici Bellis and Tennys Sandgren will headline the fifth season of Tennis Channel’s multi-platform series My Tennis Life, starting on Wednesday. Both pros will document their lives on the tour throughout the year, sharing updates and engaging with fans through their own social media channels and the network’s platforms. My

Back in 1989, world No. 5 Andre Agassi reached the biggest final of his career at the Italian Open. The 19-year-old, who didn't drop a set on his way to the championship match, fell in five sets to Alberto Mancini of Argentina. After that loss, Agassi's results in Rome were

Petra Kvitova and Victoria Azarenka faced each other for one of the biggest clay-court titles on the WTA Tour. In 2010, one of the biggest breakout performances on the WTA Tour by a young player came at Wimbledon, where unseeded 20-year-old Petra Kvitova reached the semifinals. That run helped propel

GENEVA -- Australian Open champion Stanislas Wawrinka acknowledges that Switzerland has its best chance in years to win a first Davis Cup title. "We all know that we have a good opportunity, especially since Roger is playing and I am playing," Wawrinka said on Tuesday, ahead of a home quarterfinal

Milos Raonic, the 22-year-old godfather of the ongoing Canadian tennis boom, had an outstanding 2013, accumulating two titles and a 45-21 singles record. He narrowly missed qualifying for the World Tour Finals. He also was able to protect his lofty ranking on the cusp of the Top 10 (he finished