Two-time Grand Slam finalist Todd Martin recently finished a 2 ½-year stint coaching Mardy Fish and now is looking for opportunities to tutor juniors. He is already associate director of the Altheus Tennis Academy, located in Rye, NY and run by his childhood coach Rick Ferman. Martin, 37, also is

In recent years, the women have carried the Grand Slams through the first week, before the big guns on the men’s side begin to face off in the quarterfinals and beyond. That may be the case again, as the WTA draw at the Australian Open looks likely to be filled

Technically, I’d say Andy Murray looks better with short hair. But he really seems more himself—more Muzzardly—when he lets it fly high and wild and ragged. As much as he’s cleaned and clipped and polished himself up over the years, Andy is never going to be slick. And hallelujah for

PARIS—Brian Baker, 27 but looking a few years older and perhaps a little bit wiser than his age, headed back to the baseline after the coin toss with his baseball cap set low on his forehead. He walked on his toes, took short strides, and kept his narrow shoulders high

MELBOURNE—The stated focus of the tenth annual Australian Legends Lunch was to honor Mal Anderson. The 82-year-old Anderson, enshrined in the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2000, is one of many native sons who served and volleyed his way to glory in the thick of Australia’s golden quarter-century, 1950

NEW YORK—Last year at the U.S. Open, I watched the University of Southern California’s Steve Johnson surrender a two-set lead and lose to Alex Bogomolov Jr., who happened to be in the midst of a career run. Johnson was on a busman’s holiday, in with a wild card and under

This article comes from the May 2025 edition of Racquet Sports Industry. Click here to read the full issue. National Tennis Month started just four years ago as a way to offer tennis providers a natural—and national—platform to help grow the game in their communities, and to help highlight their

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) Sure, there were plenty of low points along the way back to tennis' biggest stages for Brian Baker. None worse, perhaps, than waiting to have reconstructive surgery on his right elbow in February 2008. `I knew it would be a year and a half before I got

This year marks the 50th anniversary of TENNIS Magazine's founding in 1965. To commemorate the occasion, we'll look back each Thursday at one of the 50 moments that have defined the last half-century in our sport. Tennis is often described as a “lily white” sport. Before 1968, there was more

Last year’s match between Daniil Medvedev and Stefanos Tsitsipas in Miami was an exercise in mutual, occasionally comical, frustration. The Russian and the Greek took dueling, suspiciously-timed bathroom breaks. One became angry at the other for not apologizing after a net cord. They had to be separated at the net

SINGAPORE (AP) Top-seeded pairing Martina Hingis and Sania Mirza cruised to the doubles title at the WTA Finals with a 6-0, 6-3 victory on Sunday against the Spanish duo of Garbine Muguruza and Carla Suarez Navarro. The title capped a super year for Hingis and Mirza, who only started playing

WATCH: Tennis Channel Live discusses the refreshing honesty from Andrey Rublev in era of sports where athletes are trained to often give robotic answers.

After some great escapes leading up to the final, including battling back from a set and a double break down in the semifinals, Ben Shelton saved his best for last in Tokyo on Sunday, defeating former Top 15 player Aslan Karatsev, 7-5, 6-1, to capture the first ATP title of

Reggie Bush, whose rushing prowess helped lead the USC Trojans to two college football national championships in the early 2000s, is heading to Wimbledon this summer with his daughter, Briseis. They plan on watching Coco Gauff and Naomi Osaka, two of Briseis’ favorite players, and taking in the splendor that

At the end of January, Dominic Thiem didn’t mince words when stating this season was “the last chance” to reassert himself on the ATP Tour. Less than four months later, it appears the 2020 US Open champion has bought into that belief. According to Austrian outlet SN, Thiem has begun

If you're ever invited to dinner at Coco Gauff's house, ask the 2023 US Open champion to make you some salmon. After defeating Jessica Pegula in her opening match at the WTA Finals on Sunday, just her second win in six career meetings against her compatriot and one-time doubles partner,

After so many tournaments, and so many years, as the man everyone was after in tennis, Roger Federer enters 2009 as the one doing the pursuing. Federer is chasing Pete Sampras, hoping to tie, then break, his record of 14 Grand Slam singles championships. And, for a change, Federer is

If sound and fury is what look for in your tennis tournaments, you might be disappointed in what you see and hear at this year's Madrid Masters. Last season Ion Tiriac's blue-clay experiment made this the most talked-about event of 2012. It also sent both Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal

Billie Jean King’s vision of bringing men and women together to compete for a trophy has been carried out through Mylan World TeamTennis since 1974. Nearly 30 years later, the Springfield Lasers have taken the iconic gender-equity concept to the next level this season by building strong relationships, and now

• Picby Pete Bodo* When you look at the past Olympic medalists, it's fairly obvious that the event doesn't follow the form chart. Since tennis returned to the Olympics after a 60-year absence in 1988, the Games produced three gold medalists who had not—and would not—win even a single Grand