WHITE SULFUR SPRINGS, W. Va.—With so much uncertainty about how the rest of 2020 will look, the 50-plus players at The Greenbrier are making the most of their experience. "We don't have many tournaments all the [ITF events] are actually canceled right now and that was kind of my plan

FLASHBACK: Roger Federer's 2021 Wimbledon quarterfinal press conference

"What Should I Have Done?" Victoria Azarenka reacts to crowd after no handshake with Svitolina

Congratulations to US Open referee Soeren Friemel. Novak Djokovic, the No. 1 player in the world, presented Friemel with a difficult decision after swatting a ball and inadvertently striking a lineswoman, but the official correctly went with what the rulebook says, without fear or favor. Listen to Friemel's description of

We’re into the second week and down to the two big show courts at the French Open. All of Monday’s matches, except one, took place inside Chatrier and Lenglen. The outlier was Svetlana Kuznetsova vs. Lucie Safarova, who were exiled at the last minute to the Bullring. Their court location

By the time I started playing tennis in the mid-1970s, the sport’s original surface was no longer its surface of choice. After a century of use and abuse, the grass didn’t seem quite as green it once had. It was bumpy, it was brownish, it was slick, it was slippery,

Is there a women’s tournament happening at Wimbledon this year? You might be hard-pressed to say for sure at the moment, with all the pre-game attention that the men’s side has been garnering. But the WTA is in London as well, and while they haven’t watched their first seed and

NEW YORK—At 5-3 in the fifth set against David Ferrer on Wednesday, Richard Gasquet gathered the balls from the ball kids, shot a quick look up at his player’s box, and stepped to the baseline to serve for a spot in the U.S. Open semifinals. Then the Frenchman did something

PARIS—“How long are we gonna keep playing?” Denis Shapovalov shouted toward the chair umpire as he raised his hands in frustration. What was the source of the teenager’s angst? If you believed Shapovalov’s words, it was the rain that was beginning to drench the clay inside Court Suzanne Lenglen on

So I've come to Paris to write about the French Open and I’ve got a night to spare before I’m due at Roland Garros. I’ve flown in Friday morning at 7:00 and spent the better part of the day, pale and sweaty and a little dazed from the intermittently horrifying

NEW YORK—There will be higher-profile matches at the 2020 US Open where the absence of an audience is deeply felt. But it’s the marathon early-rounders, played outside of the arenas and usually forgotten by the second week, where the silence is starkest. I use the plural because, on late Wednesday

PARIS—It’s time for the second tournament to begin. From the quarterfinals on, a Grand Slam feels like a different event; the tension that has been scattered over the grounds gets packed into the big arenas. The days start later—2 P.M., instead of 11 A.M. Paris time—and each match takes on

These are called, for a reason that escapes me, the dog days of summer. I know the term from America’s own summer game, baseball. While the rest of the world heads for the beach, or the mountains, or just deeper into the air conditioning, major league baseball players are often

Has the tennis world been complaining about the wrong thing this week in Madrid? While fans and press and (mostly male) players have been staring angrily at the blue clay, we’ve haven't been paying a whole lot of attention to the women playing alongside them. That’s not entirely, or even

Swiss neutrality: That wasn’t the phrase that came to mind during Roger Federer’s semifinal win over Andy Murray in London yesterday. For much of the match, it looked and sounded as if Zurich and Geneva had banded together to invade England. One reporter in the building estimated that support was

Tennis Channel Live: Thoughts on Agnieszka Radwanska's retirement from the game

This one had to feel pretty good. For a committed Davis Cup warrior, Andy Roddick has taken his lumps in the team competition. He’s faltered in close, crucial matches against Ivan Ljubicic, Rafael Nadal, and, toughest of all, Dmitry Tursunov in Moscow last September. But it hasn’t been for lack

MELBOURNE—Wednesday dawned bright and warm here. By 10:00 A.M., early-bird fans were examining their draw sheets while ball kids, after making sure their blue hats were fastened securely, stretched and sprinted and honed their ball-rolling skills. On the practice courts, Milos Raonic worked on his serve-forehand combination, while Petra Kvitova

“Play!” Jack Sock screamed at himself halfway through his match with Australia’s Sam Groth. But playing, or at least playing anywhere close to his best, wasn’t in the cards for the American on Tuesday. Last year at Wimbledon, the 22-year-old experienced his greatest tennis memory when he won the doubles

NEW YORK—As it began, the U.S. Open women’s final had the look of a party that was missing its guest of honor. Celebrities off all stripes—Robert Redford, Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union, Queen Latifah, Michael Douglas, James Taylor—crowded the suites in Arthur Ashe Stadium, while 20,000 others, many of whom