It would have been another sleepy fall tennis weekend here, except that the Tennis Channel went all out and brought us the semis and finals from Tokyo on the men’s side and Stuttgart on the women’s. What did the last two matches at these tournaments have in common? A loss

MELBOURNE—“This wasn’t the way I wanted to win a tennis match,” Stan Wawrinka said a few minutes after winning the biggest tennis match of his life. “But it’s a Grand Slam, so you have to take it.” “Take” is the operative word in that last sentence, because for an hour

I felt it way up on the roof of my mouth on Wednesday and knew I was doomed. It was an unpleasantly familiar sensation, a scratchy irritation that compelled me to stick my tongue up there and rub as hard as I could, as if that were going to relieve

MELBOURNE—That wasn’t a bad effort from Andy Murray, right? He made his third straight Grand Slam final, and fourth straight at a major event. He beat Roger Federer for the first time at one of these things, in as convincing a five-setter as you’re likely to see. And, as the

PARIS (AP) — The Latest on the French Open (all times local): ___ 11:25 p.m. Rafael Nadal's record against Richard Gasquet improved to 17-0 as he reached the third round of the French Open with a 6-0, 7-5, 6-2 win. The defending champion improved his Roland Garros record to 102-2

I suppose Mardy Fish finally got good and tired of all those headlines - Fish Lets One Get Away! Haas Nets Fish! Umpire Hooks Fish! - and decided it was high time to. . . Reel in A Big One (rimshot, please). So yesterday he took those naked ankles and

*95662082 by Pete Bodo [For more on the Australian Open, also check out our latest podcast, which ought to be live later this afternoon. And while you're at it, check out our new feature, The Daily Spin.] It's the first bleary-eyed morning of the year's first Grand Slam event, and

b**y Pete Bodo I could hear Boris Becker bellowing from three courts over, and I knew by the nature of his howlings that things were getting ugly out there. So I made my way over and elbowed through the crowd gathered around the red clay court, taking up every inch

Pic by Pete Bodo NEW YORK—It was a bright, beautiful morning; dazzling white clouds sailed through an azure sky, and the polyester strings in Donald Young's racket glittering like reflections of afternoon sunlight on the sea. A glorious day for tennis, especially after the two we've just endured. But you

Speaking with Mikael Ymer the other night, I found myself reflecting frequently on the young Swede’s remarkable wisdom. He is 21 going on 35. He carefully weighs every question thrown his way in an interview, and his responses are well measured, thoughtful and highly intelligent. His answers do not follow

NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. Open tennis tournament (all times local): 11:58 p.m. Danielle Collins saved three set points in the tiebreaker to knock off Alizé Cornet 6-4, 7-6 (11-9) in a match between two players who had eliminated former U.S. Open champions. Collins defeated two-time

WATCH ABOVE: Mark Knowles and Jimmy Arias take a look at the Top 16 seeds slated to compete in the women's and men's singles draws at the 2023 Australian Open. FULL DRAWS: Click here to view the view the complete men's and women's brackets.

Judging by recent evidence, it’s only getting tougher for today’s young players to shoulder that pressure for long periods of time. On the men’s side, the Next Gen continues to labor in the long shadows of the Big 3. On the WTA side, once-budding superstars have wilted into one-Slam wonders.

At this time a year ago, I wrote about Novak Djokovic’s quest for historical supremacy at the major tournaments as he moves through a fascinating journey in this era alongside Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. After the 2019 Australian Open—when Djokovic played probably the best big match of his illustrious

Yesterday, both Pete Bodo and I talked about how the month of February no longer seems to be the black hole for tennis that it once was. That could be a function simply of Rafael Nadal playing in South America for the first time in eight years, and Serena Williams

Andy Murray is running straight toward you. He's running so fast you begin to think that, to avoid the low wall that's the only thing standing between the two of you, he might have to do a flying leap in the general direction of your skull. Murray starts sliding at

“You know, we’ve been talking about schedule length for a long time with not a lot of success,” Andy Roddick said at the U.S. Open in September. “There’s been, OK, new schedule, new schedule, and we’re all supposed to celebrate, but it all ends kind of at the same time,

LONDON—It had been, by his own admission, an “up and down” two weeks for Novak Djokovic. He had won five matches without ever being in any serious danger of defeat, and at times, particularly in his win over Michael Llodra and his first set against Bernard Tomic, he had been

Time is running out on my Wimbledon. That’s a bit of an understatement, to be honest. This is my last day here, but I didn’t want to have to come out and say it. What have I not gotten enough of this week? Tennis matches, of all things. I kept

Now we've reached that brief, awkward stage when the tennis season is over, but it's not yet over over. Yesterday Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal played the final match of the ATP tour’s World Tour Finals—you obviously can’t get any more final than that, right? Yet no sooner had the