What do you do when you catch your first glimpse of a college player who has joined the tour? If you’re like me, you look for the flaws. What was it that kept them from believing, like virtually all top players believe, that they were ready to turn pro when

You don’t have to be a Beatles fan (I know, because I’m not one) to understand what I mean when I say that Tommy Haas is the Nowhere Man of pro tennis. All you have had to have done is follow the career of the former prodigy, who is now

Having come together to compete last month in Australia, the traveling tennis circus spends February in all corners of the globe. Here’s a look at three pro finals, each played on a different continent—Asia, Europe, North America. Abu Dhabi: Belinda Bencic vs. Liudmila Samsonova The second edition of this WTA

Taylor Dent, once ranked No. 21 in the world, is hoping his injury troubles are finally over as he plans a return to the tennis circuit, possibly with fellow pro Jan Michael Gambill as his coach. LOS ANGELES—Thirty days. If all goes well – and a lot still can go

Although 2017 has been a retro year for Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, a few rising young players are looking to break through by winning the US Open. Each of them brings special talents that could beat any opponent, given the chance and having the drive. The 26-year-old Bulgarian returned

Petko by Pete Bodo MIAMI, Fla.—The urge to find the "magic bullet" isn't exclusive to tennis players, although something about the process is especially appealing—and suited to—the profession. After all, there's only so much a pro can do in pursuit of a win. Fight hard (nothing magical there); master your

Andy Murray vs. Stan Wawrinka Pro tennis matches don’t get much more, um, mature than this one. Wawrinka is 39, Murray is 37, and they first faced each other, in a Davis Cup match, all the way back in 2005. Nineteen years later, Murray leads their head to head 13-9,

Tennis pro Nick Kyrgios is setting up a free-to-access OnlyFans page. Kyrgios is a 28-year-old Australian who was the runner-up to Novak Djokovic at Wimbledon in 2022 but was sidelined by injuries for nearly all of this past season. He played in just one official singles match in 2023. The

When it comes to inspiring role models, Venus and Serena Williams have frequently praised all they learned from their fellow American, Zina Garrison. Over the course of 15 years as a pro, Garrison attained a career-high ranking of number four in the world and won 14 WTA singles and 20

Pro players pay a king’s ransom for match tracking data, but with SwingVision all it takes is a smartphone. Using artificial intelligence, the app records a match or training session and turns it into a highlight reel of memorable points and a trove of stats. Points played, ball speed, shot

Justine Henin-Hardenne committed the most significant and flagrant act of poor sportsmanship I’ve witnessed in nearly 30 years of covering pro tennis today. I urge you to read the interview transcripts when they’re posted on the Australian Open website (I think Henin-Hardenne’s is up already) and evaluate for yourself. All

Last year, Roger Federer presented the world with his personally designed new, all black Wilson frame, the Pro Staff RF 97 Autograph. Fans then had to wait until this month's Hopman Cup to see the 35-year-old compete with the new stick. On Saturday, he whipped out yet another new Wilson,

Running my eyes down the Basel brackets yesterday, I began to wonder: Is the fall legit? Is it no longer a haven for all that is bloated and disreputable about pro tennis? First we watched as every member of the Top 20 flew to Shanghai for an October Masters event.

Nutrition is a key ingredient of a successful tennis game at all levels. In the pros, Olympic gold medalist Monica Puig and Top 40 star Donna Vekic are extra serious about what they eat and drink, but they also listen to what their bodies tell them. Sometimes, that means adding

Sportsmanship: It sometimes seems an all-too-rare commodity. At the Nielsen Challenger-level event in Winnetka, Illinois (read: Chicago), a bizarre ending took place in the match between American-turned-Russian pro Alex Bogomolov, Jr., and current U.S. player Bradley Klahn. Down 2-1 in the third and final set, Bogomolov basically stopped playing a

DOHA—Doubles has been getting a bigger piece of the pro-tennis spotlight lately, and it feels long overdue. From team events to tournaments all over the world, singles players are sharing the court, and liking it. At the Qatar Open this week, top seed Stan Wawrinka teamed up with Frances Tiafoe,

A few weeks ago, I wrote about an astonishing flip-flop that has occurred in pro tennis. It wasn’t so long ago that variety was the hallmark of the men’s game, with a serve-and-volleyer here, an all-court baseliner there, a clay-court grinder somewhere else. Meanwhile, most WTA players looked as if

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 17, 2023 – Tennis Channel’s free ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) channel T2 is now available to Amazon Freevee viewers, and on sports-first live TV streaming platform Fubo in its base Pro channel plan, available to all subscribers. This greatly expands the number of viewers in the United

Nadia Petrova finally got the monkey off her back Sunday, winning her maiden pro title at Linz, in her sixth year on the tour. A lot of pundits will find a way to have a little fun with this (Bob Larson has already jumped all over the gimme, declaring that