The tours are in transition this week. After Indian Wells and Miami, the ATP takes a break for Davis Cup, which will hold its four quarterfinals over the weekend. The WTA, meanwhile, take its first step—or slide—into the clay season. Before the players get knee deep in European red dirt,

Tennis Channel's Daily Serve recaps Day 2 at Roland Garros. It was not a great day for American tennis at Roland Garros, with Jack Sock, the top-ranked U.S. man, and Coco Vandeweghe, the 19th-seeded woman, losing their first-round matches. The only positive, if you want to look at it this

We have arrived at the US Open's final four. The women begin proceedings Thursday at 7 p.m. ET, and our picks to reach the final are in. Brady’s run to the US Open semifinal has been nothing short of outstanding. In her five comprehensive victories this week, only one player,

Momentum? Merely an illusion—a trick of the mind to let us think a tennis player is either about to charge ahead or fall behind. For an example of momentum’s ethereal qualities, dissect 20th-ranked Karolina Muchova’s 6-4, 3-6, 6-1 win today over world No. 2 Naomi Osaka in the second round

WASHINGTON (AP) Lleyton Hewitt climbed out of a courtesy car Tuesday afternoon, slung a case of rackets over his shoulder and walked across the Citi Open grounds, accompanied by his 6-year-old son, Cruz, who gave Dad a hand by toting a black gym bag. More than seven hours later, the

All the consternation over whether golf's addition to the Summer Games makes sense raises the question of whether tennis — another individual, professional sport with four annual Grand Slam tournaments and millions of dollars in prize money — belongs, too. To U.S. Olympic men's tennis coach Jay Berger, the answer

INTERVIEW: Alexander Zverev talks with Tennis Channel's Prakash Amritraj after his three-set semifinal win over Novak Djokovic.

For the second straight match, Alexander Zverev validated a major premise of this year’s competition at Roland Garros: Be it veteran or youth, in the second week of a major for the 22nd time or the first, when you arrive to play Zverev, you better be fresh. Sunday evening, Zverev

WATCH: Swiatek meets the press after reaching her second major final at Roland Garros.

Tennis fans were already calling her “Queenwen” before her Roland Garros main-draw debut, but Zheng Qinwen is already guaranteed to leave Paris with a considerably larger crown. The 19-year-old is in the midst of a breakthrough season that saw her both qualify for the Australian Open in January and earn

MATCH POINT: Nakashima stars in win over Fognini.

You probably knew that Novak Djokovic was 16-0 to start 2020, having posted an unbeaten mark at the ATP Cup, having won the Australian Open and having bludgeoned his way into the Dubai semifinals. In his first three matches at the 500-level event, Djokovic didn't lose more than three games

MELBOURNE—From the start, many signs pointed to a poor outcome for Kei Nishikori in his quarterfinal meeting with Novak Djokovic. As the two headed into this match, Nishikori had put in nearly 14 hours of court time, compared to just under 10 for Djokovic. Then came the matchup factor. These

Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez: It sounds a little like the Spanish equivalent of John James Smith Jones. You don't differentiate your name by originality, but by sheer volume. But if Martinez Sanchez isn’t an entirely original player, she is unique by today’s standards. The 27-year-old Barcelona resident does a lot

It feels a little like Groundhog’s Week on both tours. The women move from a rich event in Doha straight to an even richer event, per capita, in Dubai. The men stay small and spread out—the Americans go from San Jose to Memphis, the Europeans travel south from Rotterdam to

We hear this phrase often, yet it always seems to be forgotten whenever we try to stack the sport’s greatest players up against each other. Typically, we see these legends ranked in order of their career accomplishments—how many major titles they won, how many weeks they spent at the top,

In the span of a month, we’ve gone from having almost nothing to watch, to having too much for any one person to follow. Which means it’s starting to feel like a tennis season again. This week there are five tournaments across three continents. On the women’s side, the highlight

There’s been a lot of talk this year about possible alternatives to the Davis Cup. That’s true most years, but in 2016 the talk has come from people with influence. Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal have agreed to team up next summer in the Laver Cup, which is the brainchild

It might be in a bar, or an elevator, or a cab, or an office, or a restaurant: But sometime during the U.S. Open, if you live in New York, you’re going to hear people talking about tennis who you never imagined would be talking about tennis. Over the years,

To the casual tennis fan, this year’s ATP Finals can probably be described as “Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, and...everyone else.” Each of the tournament’s two group consists of one very famous player (Federer or Nadal) and three relative unknowns. The rest of the ATP’s ruling establishment—Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, Stan