This week we went from no tennis to all tennis. It has been an immersive experience for those of us living on the U.S.'s east coast. We could get up and watch the men in Doha in the morning, the Hopman Cup from Perth during the afternoon, and finish the

It's back to the grind time. After a six-week retreat together on All England Club grass, the pros go their separate ways on the hard courts of North America. The men are already underway in Toronto, minus a few prominent names, and with a few that seem uncertain how much

*Bondarenkos by Bobby Chintapalli, TW Contributing Editor You know the women’s singles draw is interesting when the half we’re really watching isn’t the one with the Williamses or even the Radwanskas but the one with the Bondarenkos. It’s gotten so much attention you’d think it has everyone but Venus, Serena

Karolina Pliskova had just beaten former world No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki in straight sets in Doha to win her second title of 2017. The Czech had battled a stubbornly steady opponent, an equally steady breeze that turned every shot into a knuckleball and her own dips in play to record

Mardy Fish isn’t easy to recognize these days. When I walked onto the Grandstand this afternoon, Fish and his opponent, Jan Hajek, were facing each other at the net, waiting for the coin toss. I knew, in theory, that Fish was the taller of the two, but I was still

This week, in the first installment of our website's monthly book club, TENNIS.com's editor, Kamakshi Tandon, and I will be talking about Gordon Forbes' 1996 memoir "Too Soon to Panic." Hi Kamakshi, Let me start with a story that I’ve told here in the past, but which illustrates the strength

If you were like me, you didn’t think that Stefanos Tsitsipas was going to beat Roger Federer until Federer’s final backhand pass landed in the net. Yes, Tsitsipas was up two sets to one and 6-5 in the fourth-set tiebreaker. And yes, he had saved all 12 break points and

Sports fans in Philadelphia lost a local hero last week. No, it wasn't what's-his-name, the Eagles' Flapping Gum. It was Bill Lyon, the least-known great sportswriter in America. Last Sunday, he wrote his final column after 32 years at the Philadelphia Inquirer. Lyon was a favorite of pretty much every

The Mutua Madrid Open needed some sunshine in its life, and it got a lot of it on a bright and hot Wednesday. A week’s worth of simmering complaint about the new and slippery blue clay courts had come to a boil with Novak Djokovic’s head-shaking assessment of them the

PARIS (AP)—Early on, Serena Williams knocked dirt from her shoes by angrily whacking them with her racket, as if punishing the clay that keeps tripping her up at the French Open. The top-ranked Williams stumbled in the quarterfinals Wednesday, squandering a match point and losing to Australian spoiler Samantha Stosur,

Pic This ought to have been a great year for Rafael Nadal, but now that he's pulled out of the U.S. Open in order to rest and rehabilitate his knees (he has chronic tendinitis in both of them) 2012 has become, like 2009, a year of travail, hardship, and sobering

NEW YORK (AP) Spinning in 70 mph second serves, grabbing at his hamstring during points, Andy Murray gritted his way through head-to-toe cramps to win at the U.S. Open. Murray outlasted Robin Haase 6-3, 7-6 (6), 1-6, 7-5 in the first round Monday during an afternoon that was hot but

VikaBy TennisWorld Contributing Editor Andrew Burton Morning, all. I'm sure you're as sick as I am - stop, let me try that again. I'm not sick, which possibly puts me in a minority of people within a 25km radius of the Indian Wells Tennis Gardens this week. Well, not yet,

When Novak Djokovic thinks he’s hit a winner on an important point, he often elongates his grunt as the ball comes off his racquet. So it was no surprise when he did just that in Paris on Sunday at the end of one of the most cathartic victories of his

Twenty-thousand French tennis fans chanted “Yoo-go!” as one. When that didn’t work, they clapped and roared and cheered whenever they had even the slightest opportunity. When that didn’t work, they stomped their feet and banged on instruments and tried to make as much noise as possible, even if it didn’t

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) The challenge system is proving, well, challenging for the top men at the Australian Open. No. 4-ranked Andy Murray asked for five line calls to be reviewed by video technology in his quarterfinal against Kei Nishikori on Wednesday and failed on every one. No. 2 Rafael Nadal

MELBOURNE, Australia(AP) Andy Murray is still around at the Australian Open, hoping to do what no British man has done in more than 70 years - win a Grand Slam tournament singles title. Murray beat Marin Cilic 3-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-2 Thursday night in a semifinal to advance to Sunday's

ROME (AP) — Jannik Sinner and Riccardo Piatti seemed destined to achieve tennis greatness together. Sinner, the red-haired ball-striking phenomenon from the German-speaking region of northern Italy, had moved to Piatti's academy on the Italian Riviera at the age of 13 and made a meteoric rise into the top 10

The ATP’s year-end championships in London really did provide a perfect—or at least perfectly appropriate—summation of the 2015 season. Novak Djokovic won his 11th title, in his 15th straight final, to put a hard-earned exclamation point on the best and most dominant season of his career. And he did it

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