Aryna Sabalenka is learning to multitask. “I can talk and sign,” she smiles, pausing to uncap her pen. In front of the former and future world No. 1 is a table full of merch from the Dongfeng Voyah Wuhan Open, a tournament she’s never lost but hasn’t attended since 2019,

Carlos Alcaraz couldn’t take the court at the Mutua Madrid Open last week due to injury, but his presence was felt all over the Caja Magica ahead of the release of his new Netflix miniseries. Spanning three episodes and documenting his 2024 season on and off the court, Carlos Alcaraz:

PARIS (AP) — The Latest from the French Open (all times local): 10 p.m. Novak Djokovic joked that the start of his fourth-round match at the French Open was not much fun to watch. The defending champion dropped his opening service game and took 1 hour, 15 minutes of scrappy,

NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. Open, the last Grand Slam tournament of the year (all times local): 12:30 a.m. Top-ranked Rafael Nadal came back from a set and a break down to beat Japan's Taro Daniel 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 and reach the U.S. Open's third

Before autumn's arrival on Saturday, we'll relive one of tennis' most memorable summers. The 1977 season was one of the most colorful and enduringly significant in the game's history. Over the next three days, we’ll celebrate the 40th anniversary of that most memorable of sporting summers. Guillermo Vilas pawed at

“What you did this year is probably impossible to repeat,” Rafael Nadal said to Novak Djokovic after losing to the Serb at the U.S. Open in 2011. These words of hard-won realism—Nadal knew from experience that living up to yourself isn’t easy—have begun to sound prophetic. While Djokovic repeated himself

“We need to see some more genius now.” This was BBC commentator Boris Becker’s on-air coaching advice to Roger Federer during the fourth set of his match with Tomas Berdych on Wednesday. That’s a pretty tall order, wouldn’t you say? Genius on command: It sounds like on oxymoron and seems

NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. Open tennis tournament (all times local): ___ 2:20 a.m am American tennis player Frances Tiafoe had a small, late-night crowd at Arthur Ashe Stadium going wild on every point in an upset win that pushed the record for the latest finish

When I first wrote about the inter-related subjects of injury and the calendar, the strong response and long discussion I triggered made me think that i had just pushed the wrong (actually, the right) button at the right time. Now I see that almost any post on the issue throws

by Pete Bodo

After we returned from the farm in game-rich Andes late Saturday afternoon, Luke and I took Lucy, my niece Sarah's dog, for a walk in Central Park. I was watching the little cowpoke trying to climb some dense shrubs, and trying to restrain Lucy, who was going nuts on the

Photo by Ian White A teacher's effectiveness is best judged by his students' achievements. That's why California's Robert Lansdorp doesn't care if you've never heard of him. His calling cards are four No.1 players by the names of Sampras, Austin, Davenport, and Sharapova. He has never been the exuberant, indefatigable

For more than half a century, first as a fan and later as a reporter, through all my years in and around the world of tennis, I have never known a more estimable individual than Arthur Ashe. He was much larger than the game he played for a living. Multi-faceted,

Q. Why is Sharapova getting all these fines? Sharapova is facing fines on two separate counts. The first is for her withdrawal from Berlin, the second if she opts to miss a WTA photo shoot designed to promote the Sony Ericsson year-end Championships in Doha this November. Q. Why is

Returning home from Wimbledon on Monday, I found myself reflecting on a tournament that was compelling in so many ways. The end of the proceedings was particularly absorbing. Something dramatic seemed to happen day after day. Anticipating the results of critical matches was a difficult task. Figuring out which players

PARIS—This was entirely familiar territory for the perspicacious Simona Halep. Confronting a determined Sloane Stephens in the final here at Roland Garros, the Romanian must have wondered whether the tennis gods were frowning down upon her again. Twice she had been beaten in title-round contests at the French Open, falling

And the Quarantine Emmy goes to... Over the past 10 days, a handful of tennis players have provided positive reinforcements for followers to eat up on social media by delivering original—and at times—whimsical content during their mandatory Melbourne quarantine. One of those standouts, Edouard Roger-Vasselin, has completely nailed the concept

In our first clay-based edition of The Rally in 2014, Richard Pagliaro and I review and preview the action from Monaco. ** Richard, Has anything in tennis over the last decade improved as much our access to the clay season in the States? Once upon a time, all we saw

MELBOURNE—Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal hugged, loosely and wearily, in front of the umpire’s chair at 1:37 A.M. on Monday morning in Rod Laver Arena. Nadal had already walked around the net post and was heading for his sideline bench. When they let each other go, Djokovic turned around and

One thing you can say for the slightly longer tennis off-season: It gives us more time to make our year-end lists. We’re already knee deep in best and worst players, matches, shots, points, breakdowns, hairstyles, and hissy-fits of the season. At Tennis Magazine, the editors traditionally wrap these season-ending reflections