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

Read More: Hold my MargAryna, and other musings on an unforgettable 2024 WTA season It began Down Under in Sydney and Perth The twenty twenty-four campaign, for what it’s worth The tour flashed its rizz (some occasional cringe, too) The tennis incomparable, the highlights did accrue Sascha saved match points

As long as bushfires do not prevent play, the first major tournament of 2020 will be underway soon, and tennis fans will witness a spectacle in the sport unlike any other. Wimbledon has the most dignified and elegant setting of the four Grand Slam tournaments. The US Open exemplifies the

HIGHLIGHTS: Djokovic mounts two-set comeback over Tsitsipas to win second French Open

Grigor Dimitrov watched as his opponent, Nick Kyrgios of Australia, dug himself out of a two-sets-to-love deficit. He listened as the crowd in Rod Laver Arena grew louder and rowdier every time their man won a point. And he groaned when, serving for the match at 5-3 in the fourth

NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. Open, the year's last Grand Slam tennis tournament (all times local): 11:40 p.m. Madison Keys grabbed the last four games to eliminate No. 4-seeded Elina Svitolina 7-6 (2), 1-6, 6-4 and give the United States four women in the U.S. Open

As we reveal this year's edition of The 21 & Under Club, we'd like to call your attention to Team Luke Hope for Minds, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that supports families with children who have suffered an acquired brain injury. Headed by former Texas Tech tennis coach Tim Siegel—whose son,

The pros are gathering in Paris as we speak. For a U.S. tennis fan, the city represents a mirror universe—kind of like that Star Trek where Kirk and Scotty travel through the looking glass and meet a version of Spock who has a goatee. My first experience in this alternate

WIMBLEDON, England—It’s Middle Sunday, and yes, both of those words are capitalized. Its a holy moment of rest for tennis writers, and anyone else who works at the All England Club every day of the fortnight. Wimbledon bowed to the forces of secularism—as well as NBC—when it allowed the men’s

This week, for the Masters Series event in Toronto, I'll be joined from the tournament site by ace Canadian tennis journalist Kamakshi Tandon. Hi Steve, Trying to marshall my thoughts for this post, I realized that I've now been attending this event for ten years, and playing journalist for five.

PARIS—The fashionable must-see of the moment in this city, aside from the tennis that's about to be played on its outskirts, is a titanic Manet exhibit at the Musée d’Orsay. There were long, twisting lines of art lovers and tourists waiting to see it yesterday, just as there will be

Has a tennis player ever said that he likes the fact that Wimbledon follows so hard on the heels of the French Open? For decades, pros and fans and supporters of sane scheduling have wished for more than two paltry weeks between these very different major tournaments. Yet as soon

Tennis-ball-rebound-1a Warning: This is a bit of a tearjerker. But it's been in me for a long time. Four years ago, while walking around the side courts at the French Open, I recognized a one-handed backhand. I didn’t recognize the player who was hitting it, just his stroke. A gray-haired

Each May, the tennis world spends a week living on Madrid time. This is a city where, in my limited experience, dinner is only reluctantly served before 10 P.M., and where tennis matches routinely cross into the wee hours of the following morning. But what happened on Wednesday at the

MELBOURNE—Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, it’s a special occasion by now, something outside the normal run of a tournament, even a Grand Slam. Their matches aren’t about No. 1, or even, to this viewer, about who’s the greatest tennis player ever. They feel like reverse exhibitions—exhibitions not for fun and

Few assignments in tennis are as daunting as the one John Isner and his United States Davis Cup team faced earlier this year: They drew the Roger Federer-led Swiss on the road. As the Americans knew, this translated to “on clay,” regardless of the local tongue. Held indoors at a

• DulkoPennetta By Jackie Roe, TW Social Director Hey, everyone! The Deuce Club is back in business; Pete and I decided to skip the DC last Friday so as not to interfere with the U.S. Open coverage. Though many of you are probably in Davis Cup mode, today's post will

[Ed. Note: Hey, Tribe. Codepoke, whose real name is Kevin Knox, filed this Battlefield Report shortly before I left for vacation. This is one bad ex-diesel mechanic, beating up on an elderly Polish gentleman who coaches 'poke's own son. Enjoy, and in the coming days I hope more of you

90426379 By Pete Bodo I have this theory about the state of the women's game these days. It's pretty simple. One reason we're seeing so many hot-potato matches is because the opportunities are too abundant. When the game has no dominant duo or trio - think Evert, Navratilova, Graf, Seles,