The question for the WTA as the WTA Finals get underway in its new home of Singapore is: What could be done to keep the tournament from degenerating into a Singabore? After all, world No. 1 Serena Williams has dominated this event, winning 26 of the 31 matches she’s played

Rafa_161 By Rosangel Valenti, TW Contributing Editor As many of you know, I spent several days watching tennis live last week, at the Real Club de Tenis Barcelona. It was the tenth stop on the 'Rafa Euro-Spectator Slam'. It was even hotter than Monte Carlo last week - I now

If you add up all the games Nicolas Mahut played in three matches last Sunday in Newport, the total is 72. That’s just four more games than Mahut won in one historic set at Wimbledon three years ago, when he lost to John Isner, 70-68 in the fifth. But it’s

Never before has a virus had such strange symptoms: Whiffing on a swing at a tennis ball; having trouble bouncing and catching the ball. Double Faults. But that’s just what Serena Williams was doing when we last saw her, at Wimbledon, in the moments before she and sister Venus defaulted

Picby Pete Bodo Okay, try getting your mind around this one: Roger Federer may be the next Martina Navratilova. I don't mean he has plans to appear on the ultra-popular Dancing with the Stars television series, which will feature Navratilova in its upcoming contest—although that wouldn't be an entirely futile

*Pic by Pete Bodo For a guy who's spent so much time grousing about the calendar this year that you get the feeling he'd just as soon hang up his racket during the Harvest Moon, Andy Murray has sure carried loads of ranking points and pocket money away from those

On Thursday, the International Tennis Hall of Fame announced that Bob and Mike Bryan—aka the Bryan brothers—will stand side-by-side yet again, in Newport. The Americans will be enshrined next August, as part of reimagined induction ceremony. They will be joined by fellow career Grand Slammer Maria Sharapova. The Bryans redefined

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) Novak Djokovic has that unbeatable feeling. And well he should. The Serb outlasted Rafael Nadal to defend his Australian Open title in the longest ever Grand Slam final and become the fifth man to win three straight majors in the Open Era. Djokovic now has the French

WATCH: Rafael Nadal is greeted by an unexpected visitor on Court Suzanne Lenglen

FLASHBACK: The Bryan brothers won the last title of their careers in Delray Beach in 2020.

As we make our way toward the 2024 season—which begins Friday, December 29 with the United Cup—our writers and editors tackle the most important questions of the new year. Sixth question: Will Novak Djokovic finally get his long-sought Olympic gold medal at Roland Garros? Scroll down past this article to

** Welcome to Florida Week! As the tours head southeast for the Miami Open, TENNIS.com and Baseline will feature all things Sunshine State. You’ll learn about the personalities, stories, teams and venues that have made Florida one of the tennis capitals of the world. We’ll also be reporting from the

When the Olympic tennis event began on Saturday morning, more than a few fans claimed that it felt “like any other week” on tour. The reaction was understandable. The players, the format, the scoring system: They were the same as they would be at any other dual-gender Masters event. The

Billie Jean King, tennis equality pioneer. Andy Murray, tennis equality contemporary. The two Grand Slam champions are generations, and worlds apart, but from Day 1, have shared one significant trait in common: believing in a cause and standing up for it without hesitation despite any potential backlash, or consequences. On

If you’ve followed tennis with any degree of regularity over the last 10 years, you understood exactly what you were going to see last weekend when France took the court for the Davis Cup final. You knew it had been 16 years since the country had won the title. And

What happens in Dubai usually stays in Dubai. The WTA’s edition of the Duty Free Championships is a Premier-Level event, and a highly lucrative one, yet its results rarely last in the sport’s collective memory. The majors, the Masters 1000s, the Premier Mandatories: Fans are apt to remember who won

LONDON—On Thursday afternoon, a man stood on Henman Hill, beer in hand, and shouted his support for his countrywoman, Johanna Konta. He said he was happy to have a chance to root for a British player, and that he liked Konta because she was a “real battler.” What he didn’t

Sunday morning and a common tennis scene was being played out. The savvy older man was using variety, defense and his vast years of experience to show the ambitious youngster what it took to win a match. In this case, though, the time was less than an hour after midnight,

*This week freelance tennis writer Ravi Ubha will be blogging from Queen's Club in London. Here's his second post from the Artois Championships. - How do you know it's summer in England? The rain is warmer. OK, that was nicked from someone else and may not be totally true, but

For a month, fans of men's tennis have subsisted on a sad diet of Viktor Troicki’s needle panic, Marin Cilic’s glucose overdose, and Roger Federer’s new-racquet act. It’s been a meager few weeks, but today the men will finally move on—minus those three players—in Montreal. A new season, with more