Court Report: Rafael Nadal wins ATP's sportsmanship award

“Young man, are you chasing me across the country? If you are, be careful—I’ll bet I’ve driven across it more times than you.” My inquisitor was Gene Mako, a 1973 International Tennis Hall of Fame (ITHF) inductee. Most renowned for being all-time great Don Budge’s doubles partner back in the

HIGHLIGHTS: Rafael Nadal's three-set loss to Mackenzie McDonald

The Break: French Open fashion review

In this edition of The Rally, Joel and Steve talk about Tuesday’s impressive wins by Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic, and break down their momentous semifinal showdown on Friday. Hi Steve, Well, well, we indeed have the mouth-watering Roland Garros semifinal everyone considered when the draw was made: Carlos Alcaraz

LONDON—So much happens over the two weeks of a major that it can be hard to recall what we were all so obsessed and upset about just a fortnight ago. In the case of this year’s Wimbledon, that’s a good thing. Remember “bored” Bernard Tomic? Remember male players dropping like

The most significant success story of tennis’ last two decades has been the rise, and continued rise, of the Australian Open. For years it was a major in a minor key, passed over by top players unwilling to make the trek Down Under at the end of the season. With

Another year, another hotly debated, highly anticipated French Open men’s tournament. And in the end, another foregone conclusion, right? It’s remarkable how much anticipation remains for these two weeks despite the fact that since 2005 they've been controlled, more tightly each year, by one player. Did we look forward this

Sixty years ago, Althea Gibson made the U.S. Championships live up to its name. The President’s Box, which sits at the south end of Arthur Ashe Stadium, is where America’s version of tennis royalty—think David Dinkins, Alec Baldwin, USTA bigwigs in blazers and straw boaters—gather to watch their country’s national

Tennis-ball-rebound-1a I'm off on Friday, but here, for the weekend, is a slightly fictionalized story from my tennis past. In the spring of my junior year of college, I took an English class that had something to do with the Renaissance. I can’t remember the title of the course, and

Last Week's Tournaments Austrian Open (ATP - Clay - Kitzbühel, Austria) - Singles Final: Juan Monaco def. Potito Starace 5-7, 6-3, 6-4. - Singles Semifinal: Juan Monaco def. Fernando Verdasco 7-5, 7-5. - Singles Semifinal: Potito Starace def. Agustin Calleri 6-4, 7-5. - Singles Bracket - Doubles Final: Luis Horna/Potito

*Phpvnl83epm By Pete Bodo Before we get to the meat of this post, I want to let y'all know that I had a terrific time at AmyLu and Juan Jose's wedding yesterday near Allentown, Pa. At one point during dinner at the reception, a few of the folks saw me

• US Open 2009 031 by Jackie Roe, TW Social Director Hi, everyone. Let’s dive right in. I’m off to sunny Indian Wells next week for the BNP Paribas Open and look forward to meeting up with the many TWibers who plan to be in attendance. As is our tradition,

The 2024 tennis season was filled with noteworthy stories, breakthrough moments, and countless trophy lifts. But what were the best matches of the year that was? We rolled the tape, and this week, TENNIS.com counted down some of the best ATP matches of the past year (after counting down our

From first ball to last, keep up to date with the latest from Roland Garros every day on TENNIS.com. We'll have match updates, photos, video highlights and more in our daily notebook: Passport to RG. In the first set of his eventual quarterfinal win over Pablo Carreno Busta, Novak Djokovic

LOS ANGELES, May 22, 2023 – Tennis Channel will have live coverage every day of the 15-day French Open again this year, its 17th year in Paris, from May 28-June 11. Between the network, its subscription-service Tennis Channel Plus and its free ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) channel T2, fans will

In this week's Rally, Joel Drucker and Steve Tignor talk about what they’re missing at Roland Garros, and whether Rafael Nadal’s commitment to winning it so many times has elevated the tournament’s stature. Hi Joel, We’ve reached an unfortunate milestone: The first Grand Slam tournament to be postponed and possibly

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The Latest on the Australian Open (all times local): 12:25 a.m. Fabio Fognini is taking no shortcuts so far at the Australian Open. The 12th-seeded Italian has won a pair of five-setters to get to the third round at Melbourne Park — and because his latest

Roger Federer’s birthday—August 8, 1981—has always been paired in my mind with Pete Sampras'. In the first of many parallels between the two men, Pistol Pete was born almost exactly a decade earlier—August 12, 1971 (lordy, lordy, look who’s about to be 40!). While 30 marks the onset of adulthood,

Rarely have the reviews for a tennis match been revised as rapidly and drastically as those given to the 2012 Australian Open men’s final. Immediately after Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal finished their exhausted, well-past-midnight, post-match speeches inside Rod Laver Arena, a hushed question began to be asked in the