Picby Pete Bodo If you were present when Svetlana Kuznetsova won the French Open in 2009, on a sunshot day when the jam-packed Court Philippe Chatrier resembled a bowl of multi-colored gumdrops, you could be forgiven for thinking that it was someone else out there, facing off this morning against

By Pete Bodo Not like anybody's counting or anything, but Rafael Nadal hasn't won an individual title in 11 tournaments. Okay, I guess I'm counting. Rafa's last triumph was at Roland Garros last June. Since then, his main rivals, Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer, have each collected a fistful of

Pic by Pete Bodo In years to come, pundits and students of the game will be justified in asking, as they look back on 2011, "Was this the greatest year, ever?" A few weeks ago, that question would automatically would have been taken to mean, Did Novak Djokovic have the

Angelique Kerber played her first official WTA match as a Grand Slam champion in Doha earlier this week, and a fan expecting a spectacular show could be forgiven for asking for her money back. Kerber, the top seed, lost to Zheng Saisai of China—a woman ranked 71 spots below her,

Some of you may have seen Gustavo Kuerten's recent remarks on Pete Sampras and Roger Federer. In case you haven't, Kuerten apparently said Sampras was "much better' than The Mighty Fed. Drawing an interesting comparison to F-1 car racing, a sport I know absolutely nothing about (except that its most

It was 3:38 in the afternoon and the sun was a blazing white smear in the sky when the gunslinger stepped out and began that long, lonely walk across the red dirt, toward the outlaw. The dust devils were swirling and the townsfolk in Lenglen, peering from behind their lace

NEW YORK (AP) — Rafael Nadal entered the 2017 Grand Slam season on a 2½-year drought without so much as one appearance in a major final, let alone a title. He ends it having reasserted himself, capped by a U.S. Open final that shaped up as quite a mismatch —

Wherever it was that Novak Djokovic’s mind went after he won the French Open in 2016, it has been returned to him, almost as sharp, a little wiser and once again focused intently on that work place between the lines of the tennis courts he dominated for so long. Djokovic

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) For Serena Williams, the low point came in early 2011, when she spent hours laying around her home, overwhelmed by a depressing series of health scares that sent her to the hospital repeatedly and kept her away from tennis for 10 months. The high point came Saturday

What happens when you pair an infant with a cat accustomed to ruling the household? In late 2020, Sam Stosur and her partner Liz Astling decided to put that question to the test with their two bundles of joy, Genevieve (Evie) and Jetboy. In a year filled with extraordinary challenges,

"Davidovich Fokina's ink also includes Spanish script that translates to, "Tomorrow is so far. Do it now!" (Photo: Corinne Dubreuil/FFT)"

NEW YORK (AP) From his tiny booth near the top of Arthur Ashe Stadium, David Law paints pictures for the ear. Thwacks of the balls, squeaks of the shoes, roars of the crowd, grunts and sometimes curses, from the players, are just the backdrop. Law, a BBC play-by-play announcer, layers

NEW YORK—The grounds at the US Open are quiet again. It doesn’t take long for the draws to narrow from 256 to four, and for the number of fans streaming through the gates at Flushing Meadows to shrink accordingly. For anyone who has the time and wherewithal to visit the

What is it about 40-year-old Hall of Fame tennis players and their calves? If you’ve won eight or more Grand Slams, do they automatically get lean to the point of vanishing once they retire? As much as we like to say Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi are opposites (aren’t all

This week TENNIS.com will be featuring one of our blog regulars, Asad Raza, who is in Rome for the men's Italian Open. He'll be writing back and forth with me here a couple times; reporting on the home page; and blogging over at Pete's as well.Hi Steve,

MELBOURNE—There’s shock and sadness around the tennis world today, after the announcement that ATP chief Brad Drewett, 54, has ALS (known as Lou Gehrig’s or Charles Mingus’s disease to Americans) and will be leaving his job. It’s doubly sad because Drewett had been on the job for only a year,

Carla Suarez Navarro, her cheeks nearly as red as the clay under her feet, shuffles slowly toward the baseline to serve. At 5’4”, she’s one of the least-intimidating presences among the top tier of women players, and she doesn’t do much, body-language-wise, to alter that impression. By the end of

LONDON—“How big a deal is it for you to defeat Andy Murray today?” This was the first question Sam Querrey was asked after his 3-6, 6-4, 6-7 (4), 6-1, 6-1 win over the world No. 1 on Wednesday. Querrey answered the only way a kid from Southern California could. “I

Rafael Nadal's five-set win over Dominic Thiem, a US Open classic:

It’s 9:05 A.M. Monday morning. A deeply tan and muscular woman, 6-foot-tall, her face concealed beneath a black visor, is hitting volleys on Stadium 3. There’s no one in the stands or in the vicinity other than myself, until a father and his two young sons walk up to peek