Every week Tennis Channel and Tennis.com will be introducing a Tough Call around a thought-provoking topic, with our panel of experts chiming in on-air and online. Be sure to join the discussion, weigh in on our polls, or comment on Facebook and Twitter using #TennisToughCall. This week's edition of Tough

Chris Eubanks was on this podcast last November, having just completed a year of tennis that left him very optimisic. The American had just notched his first victory in a Grand Slam tournament and was ready to pick up where he left off when the new year arrived. Eubanks was

This week TENNIS.com will be featuring one of our blog regulars, Asad Raza, who is in Rome for the men's Italian Open. He'll be writing back and forth with me here a couple times; reporting on the home page; and blogging over at Pete's as well. Hey Steve, I've just

By now, with Doha out of the way and the carousel of Aussie Open tune-up events in full swing, everyone is present and accounted for Down Under. Even the elusive Roger Federer, who is foregoing all pre-major match preparation this time around, has been spotted practicing at Melbourne Park. Still,

Andreas Seppi knows what it’s like to play the straight man. This is a guy, after all, who has shared a doubles court and a Davis Cup locker room with Fabio Fognini for more than a decade. Seppi hails from the upper tip of Italy, near the country’s borders with

Things have worked out well, wouldn’t you say? Just about everyone you’d want to see is still hanging around the grounds at Roland Garros. This is particularly true on the women’s side; we all know about Justine vs. Serena, but each of the four quarterfinals should be entertaining and competitive.

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Heading into his Roland Garros semifinal with Alexander Zverev, 22-year-old Stefanos Tsitsipas had already played five-setters at all four of the majors. Some were triumphs, others disasters. Today, both possibilities were present—the former early, the latter late—most vividly when Tsitsipas served at love-40 in the opening game of the fifth

Had Novak Djokovic really won his last seven matches against Rafael Nadal without dropping a set? After the first game of their semifinal in Madrid on Saturday, you could have been forgiven for believing that the opposite was the case. Nadal began the match with an aggressive grunt, and an

LONDON—Few, if any, Americans have loved England or observed it as closely as Henry James. In one of his travel books, he dated his fascination with the country to his walking, accidentally, past a bar in London that had played a role in one of his favorite novels, by Thackeray.

Roger Federer’s soaringly emphatic victory over Richard Gasquet in France on Sunday couldn’t have been more fitting. With it, Federer clinched the first Davis Cup in Switzerland’s history, and won the only remaining major tennis title that had eluded him in his 16-year career. In the process, he punctuated a

There are certain things in tennis that we should probably just go ahead and stop wondering about. For example: Will Rafael Nadal’s leg-pounding style end his career early? Since he turned 25, he’s won the French Open and reached the Wimbledon final. Or: Is Novak Djokovic really a different player

This year Bill Rapp has spent the early days of February holding meetings, writing reports, and making the rounds of Idaho’s Northwest Nazarene University, where he was hired as Athletic Director in 2012. But a little part of him was still back in the Bay Area. That’s where, over the

If you go strictly by the scoreline, it doesn’t sound like much: The No. 1 seed, Novak Djokovic, beat the No. 5 seed, 7-5, 7-6 (4), in the quarterfinals. The victor, for one, knew better. “It’s a straight-sets win, but it feels like we played five sets,” Djokovic said. “Winning

It’s taken two months, but the first act of 2007 is now complete. While that doesn’t quite bring us to the quarter mark of the season—it’s almost 11 months long, after all—it does make a convenient time for an initial assessment of some the major players and trends on tour.

On Thursday, in picking Novak Djokovic to win his semifinal over Stan Wawrinka at the Australian Open, I sang a few praises for Stan before closing with these two sentences: “But Djokovic is still Djokovic. Even when he’s not the very best version of himself, he usually wins anyway.” In

The first Monday after the French Open is one of the most jarring—as well as one of the best—on the tennis calendar. Less than 24 hours after reaching a clay summit in Paris, the sport starts from the ground up again on grass. The color goes from red to green,

I’m heading out of town for the long weekend. Monday is President’s Day here in the States. I’m not sure what that means or what we’re supposed to think about. The Bushes? The Clintons? Andrew Jackson? At least he had a suitably august nickname: Old Hickory. Beats any of the

“I think the number I have beside my name is not a coincidence, and I don’t think it would be a coincidence if it got lower.” Those confident words were uttered on Sunday by Milos Raonic, who, at 23, has reached a career-high No. 6 in the world, and isn’t

MELBOURNE—Victoria Azarenka stood to serve at 0-3 in the second set against Kim Clijsters on Thursday afternoon. Two birds circled around and in front of her, well within the range of Azarenka’s Wilson racquet, as she stared across the net and raised her arms to begin her motion. The Belarussian