“That’s a shot you would have stuck your house on Djokovic making,” one of the commentators calling the Serbia Open final said, after a forehand pass from the ATP No. 1 found the bottom of the net on Sunday. It was true. Djokovic seemed to have everything set up for

Il The final installment in my three-part mini-series on the varieties and vagaries of perception in tennis. It’s fair to say that Ivan Lendl was not a popular champion when he was playing, particularly in the United States. He was perceived here, in the home of John McEnroe and Jimmy

Heavy hangs the head of the king and queen, they say. On Sunday in Cincinnati, Angelique Kerber and Andy Murray could feel that weight as they tried to approach the throne. Kerber and Murray have spent the summer in hot, if unlikely, pursuits of the No. 1 rankings on their

WATCH: Sabalenka reached a long-awaited first major semifinal at Wimbledon, and has made it two in a row in New York.

Stan Wawrinka stood, frozen and flat-footed, in the middle of the court as the ball went past him for a winner. He had been expecting it to come to his backhand side. When it went to his forehand instead, there was nothing the newly-crowned U.S. Open champion could do but

If you’re like me, you’ve already read a few best-of lists for tennis in 2005. If you’re like me, you also enjoy these kinds of things. So here’s one more before I take the next couple of weeks off. I’ll be back with a 2006 preview column on December 30.

Rafael Nadal’s 6-7 (8), 6-0, 7-5 win over Alexander Zverev at Indian Wells on Wednesday may not go down as the best match of 2016; fourth-rounders at Masters tournaments never do. But it is hard to imagine that we’ll see a more vividly archetypal event, in tennis or any other

*96156393 by Pete Bodo Yesterday, fans of the Australian Open saw Serena Williams and Roger Federer deliver great lessons in the art of taking charge. We also witnessed an equally enlightening tutorial on what happens if you don't, can't, or won't -- and that's why Serena and Roger are nicely

[Ed. Note: Lisa McDermott, seasoned Reuters reporter and favorite TW flake, is on-site this week at the Regions Morgan Keegan/Cellular South Cup in Memphis. --S.] Well, today was my Day of Revelations. First Rev: I found out that I couldn’t trust my up-market hotel’s clock. The AM/PM indicator was reversed,

Since I started writing a weblog, I haven't spent nearly as much time as in the past in the curious zoo called the player lounge, with its colorful assortment of characters, ranging from scores of former stars to the most irritating - and sometimes bizarre - assortment of behind-the-scenes operatives,

by Pete Bodo I'll be doing a little data mining later for a statistics-based post for tomorrow, but we haven't taken a look at the news in some time, so let's review and comment on some of the headlines and stories that appeared in recent days. December tends to be

For a long time now, some smart people have been saying that if Roger Federer is going to win another major—an unprecedented 18th Grand Slam title—he’ll need some help in the form of upsets, walkovers, or withdrawals that take one or more of his Big Four peers out of the

Walking out onto Rod Laver Arena not long after Roger Federer had astonishingly saved seven match points on his way to a five set triumph over Tennys Sandgren, Novak Djokovic was primed for his quarterfinal appointment against a resurgent Milos Raonic. He had never lost in nine previous duels with

It’s a rare week in tennis when we’re not confronted with the question of whether a certain young or improving player is “for real” or not. So far in 2014, we’ve already asked it of Dominika Cibulkova, Eugenie Bouchard, Nick Kyrgios, Dominic Thiem, Gael Monfils, and Stanislas Wawrinka—though in Stan’s

FRIBOURG, Switzerland (AP)—Given a supremely tough draw in the Davis Cup, the United States is off to an exhilarating start. It swept Roger Federer and Switzerland in the first round, with Mardy Fish and Mike Bryan winning the doubles match on clay, a surface selected by Federer to exploit what

PARIS (AP) — The Latest on the French Open (all times local): 9:40 p.m. The French Open fourth-round match between seventh-seeded Kei Nishikori and unseeded Benoit Paire has been suspended due to darkness, with Nishikori leading two sets to one. Nishikori took the first set by a 6-2 score. Paire

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In February 2011, Mario Ancic hung up his tennis racquets at the age of 26 when a string of injuries and illnesses ultimately proved insurmountable. Adept at serve-and-volleying, Ancic translated that tactic into hitting the books, eyeing another ambitious world that eventually landed him on Wall Street. Ten years later,

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) Serena Williams reached her eighth Wimbledon semifinal by knocking out defending champion Petra Kvitova in straight sets with another commanding serving performance on Tuesday. Playing underneath the closed roof on Centre Court while rain halted play elsewhere at the All England Club, Williams hit 13 aces -

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