But by far the biggest news was off-court, something we had been expecting but hoping against – Monica Seles announced her retirement from professional tennis. That’s nearly enough to overshadow other WTA news for an entire season, let alone a single blog post. I won’t try to deny that. As

Picby Pete Bodo I know at least a few Roger Federer fans who, after an appropriate interval of high-fiving, air-punching, and Woo-hooing this afternoon, calmed down long enough to think or say: Sheeesh, Roger what on earth took you so long? You know what they mean. Federer all but saved

Immediately after she won the match by forcing an error to end just the kind of aggressive, spiraling, warp-speed rally that had carried her so far this year, Victoria Azarenka uttered a fierce if brief shriek of disbelief and allowed her customarily stony visage to melt into a portrait made

There are all kinds of lessons to take from a clash between an aggressive player and a defensive one, but the biggest takeaway from today’s battle between lame-duck world No. 1 Victoria Azarenka and No. 4 Agnieszka Radwanska has true big-picture meaning. The biggest change in the past few years

Hc by Pete Bodo Well, day one is in the books, folks. And day two will begin with some talk about books. First, though, note that this is a Crisis Center post, which means it will be the place for you to discuss all the U.S. Open action of day

(Ed. note - this post has been edited; for some reason, the paragraph at the end of the previous version, with Rafael Nadal confessing that he did not understand Charlie Bricker's question, had been misplaced to the bottom of the post. It is now back where it belongs. Don't ask

• PicBy Pete Bodo* Less than a month after this year's trophy presentation at Wimbledon, the top players will return to London and the All England Club for another go-round on the grass. But this time the stakes will not be a couple of million dollars but the shiny gold

LONDON—When the first championship point for Novak Djokovic arrived less than 90 minutes into his match with Rafael Nadal, the response from the crowd at the O2 arena was muted and disbelieving. Could this 39th meeting between two titans of the modern game—one finishing one of the most remarkable seasons

Serena Williams was playing for her first trip to the Dubai final—and a 25th meeting with older sister Venus. World No. 26 Alize Cornet played the role of party crasher with exuberance, stunning the tight top seed 6-4, 6-4, to reach her first career hard-court final. Winless in three prior

PARIS (AP) -- Rafael Nadal rallied to advance to the French Open semifinals for the ninth time, beating David Ferrer 4-6, 6-4, 6-0, 6-1 Wednesday. The eight-time champion at Roland Garros dropped a set at this year's tournament for the first time, but then seemed to race through the next

WIMBLEDON—This Friday afternoon, for the better part of 3.9 sets, Frances Tiafoe had turned Wimbledon’s Centre Court into a highly-captivating form of tennis theatre. In a third-round match, versus defending champion Carlos Alcaraz, Tiafoe had taken a two sets to one lead. Movement, power, touch, accuracy, angles, imagination—categories usually heavily

BARCELONA, Spain (AP)—Rafael Nadal's coach criticized the appointment of a woman as the captain of Spain's Davis Cup team on Tuesday, arguing there are substantial differences between the men's and women's games. His comments have been labeled sexist by Spain's leading political parties, and go against both the backing which

LONDON -- Andy Murray was a man in a hurry. Venus Williams took awhile to get going. The defending men’s champion and five-time women’s winner took different routes Wednesday to reach the third round at Wimbledon. Murray dropped just two games and needed only 81 minutes to blow away Blaz

NEW YORK (AP) Novak Djokovic's U.S. Open quarterfinal was suddenly tied at a set apiece, and he tore off his shirt as he headed to the sideline. He sat, halfheartedly tried to smash his racket, then began screaming. Hardly the first time, nor likely to be the last, that Djokovic

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) Growing up in Quebec City, Felix Auger Aliassime learned to play from his father, a tennis instructor who had emigrated from Togo in West Africa. It wasn't until he saw Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal play their classic Wimbledon final in 2008, though, that he fell in

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Agnieszka Radwanska, a player not known for outbursts on court, had plenty of good reasons to take out her frustrations on her racket in her first-round Olympic match. Fifty-five of them, to be exact — the number of hours it took her to get from

Jasmine Paolini vs. Barbora Krejcikova During her press conference on Thursday, a reporter asked Paolini what she would have said if he had told her a year ago that she would reach the finals of Roland Garros and Wimbledon in 2024. “You are crazy, I would say,” the Italian answered

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Ryan Harrison beat fellow American Donald Young 6-4, 6-4 in 90 minutes Saturday night at the Memphis Open semifinals, finally advancing to his first career final in his eighth try. "I certainly didn't expect it to be six years until I got here," Harrison said. "Nevertheless,

LONDON (AP) — Like a couple of old friends gathering for a reunion, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal could face each other in the Wimbledon final more than a decade after their first such meeting. The draw at the All England Club on Friday established plenty of intriguing matchups along

Murphy Jensen calls it his jumping-off point. “I had maybe a day to live,” he says. “If that.” Sequestered in a hotel on L.A.’s Sunset Strip weeks after a first-round loss at the 1999 US Open, Jensen was drinking and using drugs to excess. It was painfully clear that he