Usually how goes it in professional doubles is that the better team wins in a reasonably linear way. While classic serve-and-volley doubles is far less common in contemporary tennis, straightforward execution remains prevalent, be it with the everlasting presence of the crunching volley and, in recent decades, the ascent of

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) For Serena Williams, the low point came in early 2011, when she spent hours laying around her home, overwhelmed by a depressing series of health scares that sent her to the hospital repeatedly and kept her away from tennis for 10 months. The high point came Saturday

Over the years we had seen glimpses of what Andy Murray’s game could look like in all of its various brilliance. Those moments hadn’t lasted as long as we might have liked; the man with every shot and a few more had always favored practicality over genius, defense over offense,

HIGHLIGHTS: Serena Williams d. Anett Kontaveit 7-6 (4), 2-6, 6-2, US Open third round

WATCH: Daniil Medvedev has been in rare form in the press room at Wimbledon.

Heading back to the Miami Open to defend the only Masters 1000 title he has ever won, John Isner had his work cut out for him. After a first-round bye, he was pushed into two tie-breaks by Italian qualifier Lorenzo Sonego but he came through that stern test. On Sunday,

Last month, on the very day that Ryan Harrison reached a career-high No. 42 in the world in singles, the 25-year-old Louisiana native penned a missive on his Facebook page thanking his family, friends, coaches and fans for “supporting me during what has been a very difficult time in my

MELBOURNE—Years from now, as we reflect on the early days of Coco Gauff’s career, it will please the storytellers to see that in two of the first three Grand Slams she played, Gauff’s first-round opponent was one of her idols, Venus Williams. “I was shocked again, just like the second

At the start of the this year’s US Open, just three men in the draw knew what it took to win seven matches and attain Grand Slam glory: Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray and Marin Cilic. With fellow former champions Rafael Nadal and Stan Wawrinka opting not to make the trip

There’s no shortage of turning points in tennis history; you can make virtually any match into one retrospectively. The two highlighted above, if not full-fledged pivotal moments, at least qualify as significant milestones in racquet history. The first was Chris Evert’s 7-5, 6-4 win in the 1978 U.S. Open final

The days start late here. One o’clock, nice and civilized, is the designated hour for a coin toss and a warm-up. Why do it earlier? There’s plenty of time, Americano. The spring night is long. The day sessions stretch out into early evening, when the sun, bright and hot all

When you think of Monte Carlo, who do you think of? The good Grace Kelly, maybe; the bad Princess Stephanie; the totally dominant Rafael Nadal. But the most famous and infamous ghost of the Mediterranean remains that of Bjorn Borg. In his cherubic Teen Angel days, the days when schoolgirls

INDIAN WELLS, CALIF.—Yesterday I wrote about a tournament publication that comes to us daily, the Order of Play. Today I’ll move on to one that, if you’re on site as a member of the media, you receive at least a dozen times each day: the interview transcript. Each player’s post-match

There’s a problem, right at the start, with trying to write about John Updike. After you finish your first sentence, you might find yourself looking at it and mentally comparing it to the types of sentences you remember from books written by Updike himself. This is not a good way

Instant replay aside, this won’t go down as the most memorable NASDAQ-100 of all time. The withdrawals of Andre Agassi and the Williams sisters, the early losses by Rafael Nadal and the Belgians, the circling planes that drove TV viewers to turn down their sets during the finals: It was

Even Bud Collins fell silent when Natasha Zvereva blurted out what she did at the Family Circle Cup final 23 years ago. It was supposed to be your usual trophy ceremony. A few words by the winner, fewer by the loser, pictures, trophies, checks. But that last one—the $24,000 runner-up

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.

PARIS—A group of Argentine reporters stood with tape recorders at-the-ready for a junior tennis player. But the boy they were waiting for wasn’t playing for Argentina; he was playing for the United States. Andrea Collarini, an 18-year-old with dark curly hair and bright prospects on clay, had just upset ninth-seeded

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,

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