NEW YORK -- Lleyton Hewitt displayed the same shots and grit that earned him a U.S. Open trophy and the No. 1 ranking a dozen years ago. Now 32, and ranked 66th, Hewitt came back to surprise 2009 champion Juan Martin del Potro 6-4, 5-7, 3-6, 7-6 (2), 6-1 Friday

INDIAN WELLS, Calif. -- Facing an opponent he had never seen play, Novak Djokovic relied on some old-fashioned word of mouth. Asking around the locker room and getting some intel from his coach, Djokovic went out and beat Alejandro Gonzalez 6-1, 3-6, 6-1 on Tuesday, ending the Colombian's surprising run

Cell phones sprouted from raised arms in the crowd poised to capture Roger Federer’s match-point moment after only about an hour of play today. A stubborn Paul-Henri Mathieu wasn’t willing to comply with the photo-op. The French qualifier saved a match point and was two points from winning a hard-court

LONDON -- Novak Djokovic's large lead in the rollicking Wimbledon final was slipping away, due in no small part to Roger Federer's regal presence and resurgent play. No man has won tennis' oldest major tournament more often than Federer, and he was not about to let it go easily. Djokovic

By TW Contributing Editor, Andrew BurtonCreatureslightdark Morning, all. Yesterday saw an epic struggle between the forces of light and darkness. There are fundamentally two ways to win a tennis point: through an opponent's error, or through hitting the ball to a place where he or she can't get to it

G'day all. It's shaping up as quite the finish to the ATP season in Paris, eh? How about yesterday, when three huge stories competed for what meager headlines the game is able to generate, in this the season of Novak's discontent: Federer's second-round loss to Julien Benneteau, Rafael Nadal's nervy

*MonteCarlo By Jackie, TW Social Director Is it Friday already? Time flies when you're not checking an OoP every day ... though I imagine many of you are still doing so. Where tennis goes, the TWibe is sure to follow. Still, I'm excited for Monte Carlo, as evidenced by my

*97681476 by Pete Bodo Mornin'. Wow. The women's draw at Indian Wells has blown up even more quickly and spectacularly than I had anticipated. Kuznetsova and Henin both out? Hantuchova and Ivanovic (that's three Indian Wells titles right there, bucko, right down a desert Port-a-Potty) saddling up and headed for

[Ed. Note: Pete is on vacation in Montana until the 26th. In his absence, we are proud to present programming by various members of the TW Tribe.] No one in my family plays sport; all are couch athletes who primarily watch basketball and boxing. Perhaps then, it comes as no

MASON, OHIO—An all-Swiss semifinal match in Cincinnati began with the truth that nothing was going to take either Roger Federer or Stanislas Wawrinka by surprise. "I don’t need to see Stan play, really. He doesn’t need to see me play. We know each other very well," Federer said. Too well,

NEW YORK—It’s been said of actors that they bring baggage to each new role, but they don’t have anything on tennis players. From their years in the juniors, pros begin to accumulate enough ghosts and demons that by their early twenties, many of them have become one-man haunted houses of

MELBOURNE, Australia -- Victoria Azarenka advanced to the Australian Open quarterfinals with a 6-1, 6-1 win over Elena Vesnina on Monday, growing more confident she can repeat the winning roll that resulted in her first Grand Slam title here last year. "It's getting there ... with every match you start

Each day during the Australian Open, Richard Pagliaro will preview three must-see matches—and offer his predictions.

Billie Jean King and her top World TeamTennis lieutenants—Ilana Kloss and David Egdes—invited a bunch of us press pariahs to breakfast in a suite here at the Indian Wells Tennis Gardens this morning. When I walked in, slighty late, Billie was deep in conversation with Bob Larson of the internet

• Picby Pete Bodo* I'll say this much for Rafael Nadal: He has a way of keeping things very interesting. When it comes to his game, and his understanding of it, he's traveled far from the raw, explosive, ball-busting hellion who once went out with, seemingly, no more complicated a

For a while there, David Ferrer looked like a man chasing his wind-driven fedora down the street. A guy trying to poke a bolt through a hole that he can’t see. A hipster struggling to get into a pair of freshly-laundered pipestem jeans, or jeggings. Before the second set of

NEW YORK—In his Pharrell Williams-designed Adidas apparel, Alexander Zverev strikes a stylish pose. But it was the No. 4 seed’s overpowering game that had made him a fashionable choice to make a deep run into the second week of the US Open. That time will undoubtedly come, but on Wednesday

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Defending champion Novak Djokovic needed less than an hour to advance at the Dubai Championships on Wednesday, while Roger Federer faced a struggle to seal his place in the quarterfinals. Top-seeded Djokovic swept to a 6-1, 6-3 win over 51st-ranked Roberto Bautista Agut of Spain

PARIS (AP) Roger Federer's 4-year-old twins, Myla and Riva, hung in there for about 20 minutes Sunday in his guest box at Court Philippe Chatrier, long enough to see Daddy take control of his French Open match. Wearing matching white dresses with black polka dots, pink bows in their hair,

MONTREAL (AP) -- If the fans had their wish, Caroline Wozniacki would be facing local favorite Eugenie Bouchard on Thursday in the third round of the Rogers Cup. Instead, the former world No. 1 from Denmark will play Shelby Rogers, the American qualifier who put a quick end to Bouchard's