by Pete Bodo Watching the Atlanta Tennis Championships final yesterday, a borderline surreal stat caught me eye. It seemed a poignant and somehow fitting comment on the present state of the U.S. game. Mardy Fish and John Isner, the finalists and two of the three best American players at the

Over the course of their careers, the redoubtable Bryan brothers have touched so many milestones that it has become difficult to keep track of their achievements. The immensely popular American twins have done it all in doubles over an extraordinarily long span, setting records almost routinely along the way, building

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The 2018 US Open women’s final between Naomi Osaka and Serena Williams was many things. It was a stunning upset. It was an unmitigated disaster. It was a night of chaos and composure. It was a war between a star player and a stickler chair umpire. When it was over,

Dominic Thiem’s relief-fund reaction: Selfish? Sensible? Some of both? In this week’s Rally, Steve Tignor and Joel Drucker discuss the difficulties in dealing with income inequality in an individual sport. Connect with Steve and Joel on Twitter by using the hashtag #MondayRally. Joel, “None of them are going to starve.”

John Isner’s 2014 U.S. Open Series began with a match that ended like so many others in his career: With sevens on the scoreboard. The Sultan of Serve swatted four consecutive aces to close out Robby Ginepri in Atlanta, 4-6, 7-6, 7-5—the latest Isner scoreline to resemble reels on a

*Php2twg9rpm by Pete Bodo Howdy, everyone. The silence in TennisWorld is, as they say, deafening, right? It seems like just over a week ago, I was grousing about the endless season and what was shaping up as a Sharade in Shanghai, and now I'm feeling a little paranoid and darting

Rafael Nadal was down, 3-6, 2-4, and struggling to hold serve when a Rafaelista in the open air sauna that is the Indian Wells Tennis Garden cried out, "Come on, Rafa, use those biceps!" My blogging comrade Steve Tignor and I, sitting side by side, turned to each other and,

Lopezvmuller_2By TW Contributing Editor, Ed McGrogan Note: Please treat this post as an Australian Open Crisis Centre. Regarding comments, please try and keep them on topic, and tennis-related -- thanks. Last Week's Tournaments Heineken Open (ATP - Outdoor Hard - Auckland, New Zealand) Singles: Juan Martin del Potro def. Sam

20120728_swby Pete Bodo As the Olympic tennis event began today, the panaromic view of Wimbledon's field courts, with the stadium in the distance, reminded me of one of those old and to me always stupendously uninteresting prints of Victorian gentlemen and women at play at the country club. The courts

Jimbo [Please forgive the acronym feast in the headline, folks, but as you can probably work out, this is your Monday Net Post and daily Crisis Center post rolled into one. Way to step up, Ed McG. He has become the Man Who Never Sleeps. He told me yesterday he's

“I feel like I’m living in a what-if right now,” Naomi Osaka said after she won her fourth Grand Slam title at this year’s Australian Open. “It’s really weird when you get to that final point, you start trembling because you can think of the ‘what-ifs.’” Just about everyone who

Poetry in motion: Federer's footwork

This was the wide-open Open. With Serena, Novak, Stan, Andy and Kei—all recent finalists at Flushing Meadows—watching from afar, we braced for the unexpected, and we got it. A pair of Grand Slam final rookies on the women’s side; a brand new pair of young guns on the men’s side;

I have mixed feelings seeing the clay-court season go. On the one hand, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer have, over the last three years, raised the importance of this time of year to an all-time high. As much as I liked watching Gustavo Kuerten, Alex Corretja, and Marcelo Rios sweep

“We need to see some more genius now.” This was BBC commentator Boris Becker’s on-air coaching advice to Roger Federer during the fourth set of his match with Tomas Berdych on Wednesday. That’s a pretty tall order, wouldn’t you say? Genius on command: It sounds like on oxymoron and seems

*102938641 by Pete Bodo Howdy. I'm a little bummed that it's supposed to thunderstorm this evening, because I plan to attend the World Team Tennis match between those Gotham rivals, the New York Sportimes and the New York Buzz. It's part of my "out of the box" thinking about tennis

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There are few, if any, tournaments easier to plunge into than the BNP Paribas Open. The Tennis Garden here allows for maximum viewing of the players, so much so that it might be renamed a Tennis Aquarium—the pros practice, work out, and eat in front of you. That may sound