Moments after Vania King shocked Slammin' Sammy Stosur on the Grandstand court at the US Open late this afternoon, a dozen teen-aged boys began to leap around, waving their arms, calling out, "Vania, Vania!" She glanced their way, and one shouted, "Wristband!" Whereupon King swiftly peeled off the damp terry

(Ed. note - Miguel, the fastest forehand drop shot, East or West, will be blogging Shanghai for TennisWorld as his schedule allows. Here's the first typically thoughtful and well-textured post from Mikey - PB) ‘Ni hao’ from the city that proclaims to be ‘The Eyes of China’ – I’ll also

PARIS (AP) The Latest from the French Open: 8:48 p.m Three more seeded players failed to advance to the second round on Tuesday, including 10th-seeded Grigor Dimitrov who faltered at the first hurdle for the second straight year in Paris. Two of the seeded women exited: No. 6 Eugenie Bouchard,

LONDON – The 11,000-plus fans who filled Wimbledon’s No. 1 Court arrived expecting to see a king continue his regal reign. Nothing they saw for two sets, nine games and seven points took them away from that belief. But when it was over, the king had been deposed. In four

When I first spoke with Brandon Nakashima late last winter, he had come off a remarkable run as a wild card to reach the quarterfinals of the ATP 250 event in Delray Beach. He went from there to California for a Challenger tournament at Indian Wells, and made it to

On Day 4 at Roland Garros, Steve Tignor meandered through the schedule and wrote about the matches and moments that caught his eye. When the schedule was made for Wednesday at Roland Garros, some of us pointed to the closing contest in Court Suzanne Lenglen, between Benoit Paire and Pierre-Hugues

Getty Images The two sets Serena Williams played in her Roland Garros opener were the definition of night and day. After a 72-minute opening set, Serena Williams stepped on the gas to deflate Kristie Ahn in the second, needing 29 additional minutes to complete a 7-6 (2), 6-0 victory. With

WATCH: The final point of Federer's last Wimbledon final appearance Editor's Note: On Tuesday, Serena Williams posted that she will "relish these next few weeks" before officially calling in a career in professional tennis. Click here for the latest updates.

Rafael Nadal may not be playing at Roland Garros this year, but there’s no reason we can’t celebrate him turning 37 years young today! Here’s a stat for each one of his 37 birthdays so far: 1 is for No. 1, where Rafa has spent a total of 209 career

LONDON (AP) — The Latest from Wimbledon (all times local): 8:20 p.m. Despite Andy Murray's absence and the failure of any British singles players to make it to the second week, the host nation will be represented right until the end of Wimbledon. Playing on Centre Court for the first

LONDON—You might think that Manic Monday at Wimbledon would be just that, a manic, sweaty scramble from court to court and epic to epic; a dream day, in other words, for any tennis-loving journalist or fan. And it did seem like a wild ride for at least one reporter in

WIMBLEDON, England (AP)—Even the scoreboard couldn't keep up. The electronic sign keeping track courtside as the points passed and the game totals rose went blank while 23rd-seeded John Isner of Tampa, Fla., and qualifier Nicolas Mahut of France played—and played and played—the longest match in tennis history, until action was

by Pete Bodo Well, the days and matches are dwindling down to a precious few, and the thumbs up/thumbs down meme is beginning to outlive its usefulness. That's okay, because this was to be the last day for that approach anyway. I'm off, and off to, Easy Ed McGrogan's big

Tennis is awash in dramatic moments, but this one was different. Very different. It occurred during what many consider the peak moment of the tennis year, the Wimbledon final. And the author and subject of the moment was not running, jumping, winning or losing a point. He was sitting in

I didn't want to write about the Serena Williams-Justine Henin match yesterday for a number of reasons, starting with the fact that I didn't want to rain on Serbia's parade. But I did address it today over at my ESPN slot, and I've had plenty of time to think about

*Serena USO by Bobby Chintapalli, TW Contributing Editor Like it or not, win or lose, on court or off, Serena Williams dominated women's tennis this year. She grabbed our attention in Melbourne in January and still had it in Doha last month. Even if we couldn't look (or couldn't look

*102345330 by Pete Bodo John Isner put it best, in the brief on-court interview when play was suspended because of darkness today at Wimbledon, with Isner and Nicolas Mahut (Ma-hoo) deadlocked after the second day of their now 10-hour match, at 59 games all. That's a set of 118 games,

An awful lot happens over the course of a Grand Slam fortnight, not all of it tabulated in the win and loss columns. So this is as good a time as any to make a few, final observations about the tournament, now that the smoke has cleared from the battlefield.

Well, another Grand Slam event has come and gone, which it means it’s time for us to vote with our thumbs on some of our favorite—or most disappointing—players, or some of their actions or words. Remember, we’re not awarding thumbs up or down merely for performance, good or bad. These

What is most noticeable when entering Kevin Anderson’s home is just how normal it is. Situated on a stretch of Highway A1A just north of Delray Beach, Fla., the townhouse is gray and nondescript from the outside, and stylish but utterly un-tennis-like on the inside. There are no trophies on