HOME—I play tennis at a club in Wilton, Conn., about 20 minutes from my home in Danbury, a city hugging the state line. I moved to the area just over two years ago, not knowing much about the state besides its preeminent college basketball team, the University of Connecticut Huskies.

NEW YORK (AP)—“Let’s go, Ryan!” Clap-clap-clap-clap-clap. On his way to victory at Louis Armstrong Stadium on Friday, the highest-seeded American man left in the U.S. Open, No. 18 John Isner, could hear the wild cheering and chanting going on at the adjacent Grandstand in support of another American man, Ryan

Every ATP and WTA pro crafts a narrative in the public eye, and his life in sport is more — or less — interesting than those of his peers. With his triumph at Wimbledon last Sunday, Novak Djokovic nudged Rafael Nadal out of the way to stake ownership of the

Well, I'll be rolling out of here before dawn tomorrow, heading for Indian Wells and what appears to be a pretty impressive gathering of the Tribe, not to mention the ATP and WTA pros. So this will be the OT post for the weekend, or until you hear otherwise. I

The question for the WTA as the WTA Finals get underway in its new home of Singapore is: What could be done to keep the tournament from degenerating into a Singabore? After all, world No. 1 Serena Williams has dominated this event, winning 26 of the 31 matches she’s played

Jesse Levine, newly turned professional and in the US Open on a wild card, played his first professional match at the US Open today. The good news is that he had the honor of playing on a show court, The Grandstand. The bad news is that Levine had to play

Venus [[Most of you know him, simply, as Master Ace, but this Birmingham boy's real name is Patrick Hinton, and his knowledge of tennis is, well, compendious. Anyway, I got wind of some of his speculations in the Comments section of a recent post, and I invited him to post

If you’ve been sticking with Roger Federer and absorbing his thoughts and comments through the end of the season, you might agree that he sounds like a man who’s encountered Chicken Little and taken the fowl’s rantings for so much hooey. “The fun has definitely returned,” Federer declared at the

[Here is Asad's strikingly original analysis of the Rome final; I addressed the "perspective" issue that Asad handles near the end of his post from a parallel angle in Monday's ESPN column. You know what they say, fried minds think alike - PB] by TW Contributor Asad Raza

Novak Djokovic will finish 2012 ranked No. 1 by virtue of a TKO win over Roger Federer. I call it a technical knock-out less from a poverty of imagination than because the only way this differs from the commonly known boxing finish is that this fight was ended not by

What can be done about Nick Kyrgios? If that isn’t the question on everyone’s mind, then this one is: Was the punishment levied upon the tantrum-and-match throwing, ultra-talented wild child of the ATP tour for his outrageous actions in Shanghai last week an appropriate, fair response? It’s doubtful that anyone

It turns out that the promoters of the Hamburg tournament, the de facto “German Open” (it’s a pity that title sponsorship fees are such a significant portion of the revenue stream), may have the last laugh after all. You’ll remember that a few years ago, Hamburg was demoted from a

On March 5, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) reduced Simona Halep’s doping ban from four years to nine months. Two weeks later, the two-time Grand Slam champion returned to action on the WTA Tour, losing in the first round of the Miami Open to Paula Badosa in three

MELBOURNE, Australia(AP) Rafael Nadal has abandoned his trademark sleeveless tops and capri pants for T-shirts and above-the-knee shorts at this year's Australian Open. Not everyone likes it. Sports bloggers and fan forums have been puzzled by his new attire, with at least one female blogger complaining that she missed seeing

A few weeks after reaching her first Grand Slam singles semifinal at Wimbledon, Victoria Azarenka is at Stanford this week for the Bank of the West Classic. She’s the top seed and defending champion in a packed field that includes Serena Williams, Maria Sharapova and other big names. Another title

Who wore what? Style Points breaks down the latest collabs, kits and fashion statements from around the tennis world.

WATCH: Unstrung—Juan Martin del Potro

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WATCH: Djokovic's semifinal press conference

No. 1: Coco Gauff breaks the mold, with style, during career year Coco Gauff showed remarkable progress during the second half of the 2023 season, lifting trophies in Washington D.C., Cincinnati and the US Open—her career first Grand Slam victory—over the course of one dream North American summer. But all