It's time to unload the mailbox again. There was a lot of year-end correspondence this time around. Not all of it was well-wishing, exactly, but that's just how it goes around here, right?

This year marks the 50th anniversary of TENNIS Magazine's founding in 1965. To commemorate the occasion, we'll look back each Thursday at one of the 50 moments that have defined the last half-century in our sport. “Gorgo” was what Ken Rosewall and Rod Laver called their fellow pro Pancho Gonzalez.

In the best shape of his life, 29-year-old Mardy Fish gears up for what may be the best chance he'll get at America's Grand Slam. From the outside, the Hotel de Sers is nondescript, a four-story building with a tiny sign on a quiet, ritzy Right Bank side street in

All of the major tournaments have players who have become synonymous with the event—inseparable from it, as if they were born to play there. Andre Agassi at the Australian Open. Björn Borg, Chris Evert and Rafael Nadal at the French Open. Martina Navratilova, Pete Sampras and Roger Federer at Wimbledon.

The rivalries, qualitatively and quantitatively Preparing for an exhibition match in Taiwan with Marat Safin, Andre Agassi was asked to compare the Roger Federer vs. Rafael Nadal rivalry with the one he enjoyed (sort of) with Pete Sampras. Speaking economically if not diplomatically, he flatly said of the present rivalry:

by Pete Bodo Mornin'. I admit, I'm feeling a little mischievous bordering on perverse today - maybe it's the fact that I'm coming down off this weird anti-depressant that I've been taking, not because I'm depressed (y'all know what a happy-go-lucky guy I am) but because it happens to have

Each day this week, Peter Bodo will review action from Cincinnati and preview upcoming matches. These "Good Morning Cincinnati" posts will be published around 10 am EST, and we encourage you to discuss the day's play—along with Pete's thoughts—in the comment section below. Yesterday: Some territory on the tennis landscape

If you had a rooting interest in the Davis Cup quarterfinals this past weekend, your heart is probably in one of two places: Still lodged in your throat, or lying on the carpet in your living room, shattered into tiny pieces. Has there ever been a weekend that so vividly

• TOQUELAND Badgeby Pete Bodo* Mornin'. Feel free to use this as your thread to follow the action in the far-flung corners of the tennis empire today and tomorrow. Today we'll take a little detour that will be of interest to many of you. A few weeks ago, we celebrated

by Pete Bodo We're just a little way past the halfway mark in the year, and I thought it might be a good idea to look at some of the ATP statistics. Am I alone in thinking that I'd gladly trade the "Zagat Guide: Best of the WTA" feature on

Throughout November and December, we'll be highlighting the true heroes of tennis with our annual celebration of the gifted, the courageous, the inspired and the inspiring. You can read about heroes we've honored previously here. Having just turned 20, Vicky Duval has already endured a lifetime’s share of hardship. At

DELRAY BEACH, Fla.—Jacob Goldman spent $5,000 and traveled 4,529 miles to fly from his home in Paris just to have a hit with Andy Roddick. Then, with Roddick as his partner for the Delray Beach Open Champions Tour pro-am, Goldman panicked. “I’m just so nervous,” said the 60-year-old internet consultant,

Andy by Pete Bodo It could not have been easy being Andy Murray on Monday morning, although anything written or said about the Australian Open final needs to be prefaced with this disclaimer: The way Novak Djokovic played over the two-week span of the year's first Grand Slam event, it's

One of the four has been compared to Luke Skywalker and recently “warmed up” for his match with Rafael Nadal with a meal consisting of an entire pizza and a platter of ham. Another of them only gave up smoking recently, but insisted that many players ranked above him at

by Pete Bodo We're heading for the weekend, and then the proper kick-off of the European clay-court circuit. So let's take a quick look around to digest and comment on some of the news we might have been too busy to deal with during the recent Sony Ericsson Open, or

It’s the Monday morning after the US Open has ended. WTA doubles player Giuliana “GuGu” Olmos is practicing with her good friend and prior doubles partner, Desirae Krawczyk, at the Los Angeles Tennis Club (LATC). L.A. is in the middle of a heat wave, so by 10:00 a.m. it’s already

When Juan Martin Del Potro took the court for a first-round appointment against Frances Tiafoe at the Australian Open last night, tennis fans from every corner of the globe watched with interest. The 29-year-old Argentine had faced his 19-year-old American adversary only once, about 11 months ago in Acapulco, and

LONDON— Once upon a time, not very long ago, reaching the penultimate round at a major tennis tournament was not a particularly big deal for the estimable Novak Djokovic. This extraordinary athlete and prodigious tennis champion has secured 12 major titles across his sterling career. He won four Grand Slam

NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. Open tennis tournament (all times local): 12 a.m. Novak Djokovic managed to do what Roger Federer could not: beat 55th-ranked John Millman at the U.S. Open. Djokovic moved a step closer to a third championship at Flushing Meadows and 14th Grand

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) A veteran Spanish lefthander and a 25-year-old Chinese qualifier who nearly quit tennis last year are back in action Thursday at the Australian Open, hoping to prove that their upset wins over two of the top players in the first round were no flukes. Fernando Verdasco beat