*90577269 by Pete Bodo They were like two youngsters shaken awake from an afternoon nap: each of them was thinking, What day is it? Where am I? Who am I? The answers were: Thursday, Sept. 10th, 2009, they were in Arthur Ashe Stadium, and they were Travis Parrott and Carly

It is always there: a monolithic presence, like some giant blue and gray Lego piece, or a Mayan ruin turned upside down, the right angles of all those steps, blown out of a concrete mold, fanning out to make the structure broader as you go higher, until you hit the

PARIS (AP) The Latest on the French Open (all times local): 8:25 p.m. Leander Paes and Martina Hingis each completed a career Grand Slam in mixed doubles by winning the French Open final against Sania Mirza and Ivan Dodig 4-6, 6-4, 10-8. It was the 10th mixed doubles title at

When Roger Federer came to Melbourne for the 2017 Australian Open after six months away from the game with a knee injury, he had not won a Grand Slam tournament for an awfully long time. His last triumphant journey at a major had been in 2012 at Wimbledon Since that

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

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 WTA matches of the past year (after counting down our

It’s been a busy and bewildering week or so at the TENNIS Magazine offices. I’ve been putting together a wrap-up article on the U.S. Open for our next issue and trying to get my head around the suicide of a great writer and lover of tennis, David Foster Wallace. With

Back in the spring of 1973—a landmark year in women’s tennis when the Women’s Tennis Association was formed and Billie Jean King toppled Bobby Riggs in the fabled “Battle of the Sexes”—the Family Circle Cup was born on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. For the first time, a women’s only

The week before Wimbledon this year, I popped the official DVD of the 1980 All England final—perhaps you’ve heard of it, Bjorn Borg vs. John McEnroe?—into my computer. I’d just seen Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal play the French Open final and was anticipating a rematch in London, and I

In this week's edition of The Rally, Joel Drucker and Steve Tignor assess the current craze for team play, offer ideas for college and Olympic formats, and yearn for the return of a good old-fashioned tournament. Hi Steve, As an individual sport, tennis highly values self-reliance, independence and sheer individual

By Pete Bodo It was a fine day to visit my favorite court in all of tennis, the USTABJKNTC Grandstand. It's our American version of the Bullring court at the French Open, or one of the three ovals sunken into the promenade alongside Rod Laver Arena at the Australian Open,

Mornin', everyone. Don Rutledge, perhaps better known at TennisWorld as Slice -n- Dice, was kind enough to be our eyes and ears at the recent Davis Cup tie in Winston-Salem. Here is his report on a Davis Cup weekend filled with smokin' forehands, watery beer, hott Spanish flyboys, big-box outlets

So when I was invited to this March of Dimes annual awards ceremony at the elegant and decidedly old-school Waldorf-Astoria, I figured I'd drift on over, maybe get a word with Andre Agassi, who was being honored as Sportsman of the Year. Maybe ask Danica Patrick (the INDY car driver

90341959 by Pete Bodo Sometimes, bad things happen to good people, including good tennis players. And Jesse Levine is a mighty good tennis player. Oh, he may not be a contender at Grand Slam events, and he may be better known as the lad Roger Federer chose to import to

Scott By Pete Bodo Hey, everyone. I'm just hanging fire here, half-watching the warm up to tonight's tantalizing quarterfinal clash between Venus and Serena Williams - the men's quartefinal pitting Andy Murray against Juan Martin del Potro, two men who had an interesting, um, interaction in Rome earlier this year.

As the French Open is about to get underway, it's only fitting to acknowledge the man who pretty clearly has the second-best record on clay (after Borg) in the Open era: Ivan Lendl. In terms of issues we've been bandying about here lately (no more Warrior Moment narratives, I promise,

NEW YORK—Howdy. The second week of the final Grand Slam event of 2012 is underway, so it’s a good time to cherry-pick some of the comments and thoughts that were expressed as the first week came to a close. Let’s start with the great Russian patriot Maria Sharpaova, the No.

NEW YORK (AP) The latest on the U.S. Open (all times local): 9:50 p.m. A drone buzzed over the court during a U.S. Open match and crashed into an empty section of seats in Louis Armstrong Stadium. U.S. Tennis Association spokesman Chris Widmaier says Thursday night that no one was

Looking for a taste of Miami during the second half of the Sunshine Double? Renowned chef Daniel Boulud has served up three exclusive recipes to Baseline inspired by the Magic City to help your cause. A native of Lyon, France, Boulud is an acclaimed culinary authority of 40 years in

Next week, the most famous names in tennis will gather in Paris, where the 51st edition of the French Open will take place. For 25 lesser-known players, though, the middle of the month was spent 6,000 miles away, on the Pacific coast of Mexico. There they continued another tennis tradition