While the press experience at Roland Garros is wildly different to years past, there have still been great insights emerging from the virtual room. As Stefanos Tsitsipas has made his way to the quarterfinals, he was asked an unexpected question: What does he get out of his interactions in post-match

Most athletes prioritize the technical and tactical elements of their games, but they don’t take as much time to improve the game between their ears. Tennis players have to quickly recover from bad shots, deal with internal and external stress, and take lessons from each match. The mental challenge of

The way Neelima Narayanan, founder and designer of Ulsi Omen has navigated through her life as an artist resembles the movements and flexibility of her craft. Always gracefully moving, she is pulled by the rotation of the world and a heart beating for creativity. From India to Singapore to New

The Wimbledon women's semifinals are set after a big upset at the top of the draw. Plus a look ahead in the daily Doubles Take. In the battle of Nottingham champs versus Eastbourne winners, it was the unseeded duo who came out on top in the women’s doubles quarterfinals. Abigail

The idea of year-round tennis may be anathema to most top pros, as we’ve been discussing—sometimes hotly—in these pages, but as a player who grew up in the northeast, being able to play tennis outdoors, in the winter, was not just an opportunity, it was a unique experience at every

Jb By Rosangel Valenti, TW Contributing Editor Good mornng. this is your daily space for discussing the day's tennis action at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. Today's Order of Play can be found on this link. Given the amount of site traffic expected in TennisWorld during the

Glass half-full, glass half-empty: Andy Roddick beats Mario Ancic to register his 15th Davis Cup singles win (tying him on the U.S. all-time list with Pete Sampras, Stan Smith, and Tut Bartzen), but 48 hours later he loses a match that marks the first first-round loss for the U.S. squad

After patchy performances at the Abu Dhabi exhibition, Rafael Nadal started the 2012 season proper in style, beating Philipp Kohlschreiber in Doha, 6-3, 6-7 (2), 6-3. Nadal’s recent public statements have not dripped with confidence, and his appearance wasn’t helped by a wheeled racquet bag that looked like a suitcase—presumably

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) David Ferrer won his second tournament of the season and the 23rd ATP singles title of his career, beating Fabio Fognini on Sunday 6-2, 6-3 in the final of the Rio Open. Ferrer has won all eight matches he has played against Fognini, including the previous

Greetings - I'm under the gun here, time-wise, and leaving for Las Vegas to visit with Andre Agassi at the crack of dawn. Actually, before the crack of dawn. So this will be brief, because, as they say, TW has been overrun by the events Down Under. One comment I'd

After an obligatory one-match clay season, Vasek Pospisil is back indoors and there’s no place he’d rather be. The Canadian has always despised clay, but judging by his 1-19 career record on the surface—and 6-1, 6-3, 6-1 loss to Matteo Berrettini at Roland Garros—he probably didn’t spend too much time

PARIS (AP)—Top-ranked Novak Djokovic easily beat Argentina's Guido Pella 6-2, 6-0, 6-2 at the French Open on Thursday to set up a third-round match against rising star Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria. Djokovic has won every Grand Slam title except the French Open and has made this year's tournament his priority.

Stan Wawrinka says his transformation into a big-match player shows that it is possible to develop mental toughness. "I think I'm the example that it can be done, because I wasn't that good younger,” the world No. 3 told press at Indian Wells following his quarterfinal victory against Dominic Thiem

HIGHLIGHTS: Roger Federer defeats Daniil Medvedev in first round of Shanghai Masters, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Rafael Nadal will meet Dominic Thiem in the semifinals of the Barcelona Open after the defending champion brushed off a challenge from German Jan-Lennard Struff to win 7-5, 7-5 on Friday. The top-seeded Nadal broke Struff's serve in the final game of each set to stay

“It could have easily gone his way,” Novak Djokovic said after beating Roger Federer by the most evanescent of margins at Wimbledon on Sunday. Those words could be used to describe a lot of tennis matches, of course; this is a sport where it’s rare for any player to win

AUCKLAND, New Zealand -- Sam Querrey's booming serve carried him past Jesse Levine 6-4, 7-6 (5) on Thursday and into the semifinals of the Heineken Open. Fourth-seeded Querrey had 16 aces, to go with the 19 he had in his second-round match against Olivier Rochus, to earn a semifinal place

METZ, France -- Top-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga will aim for his third straight Open de Moselle title when he plays Gilles Simon in an all-French final on Sunday, with both players chasing their 11th career title. Tsonga rallied past eighth-seeded Florian Mayer of Germany 4-6, 6-2, 6-3 in the semifinals Saturday.

PARIS(AP) The building of a new stadium for the French Open has been blocked because of political issues, but the French Tennis Federation said Wednesday that it was confident it will go ahead as planned. Gilbert Ysern, the general director of the French Tennis Federation, said the Paris mayor's office

VIENNA (AP)—Defending champion Jurgen Melzer reached the semifinals of the Bank Austria Trophy after Philipp Kohlschreiber pulled out with a strained groin shortly before their quarterfinal Friday. The top-seeded Melzer, who was 0-3 in career matches against the German, next plays third-seeded Nicolas Almagro. The Spaniard defeated No. 8 Juan