When the news came my way that Colette Evert had passed away at 92 last Thursday, it hit me awfully hard. She was an extraordinary woman I had known well since 1972, and was the matriarch of a close-knit and strikingly accomplished family of seven, joining forces with her singularly

The Sony Open suffers in all current comparisons with its rival in Indian Wells, and it wasn’t helped this year by a disastrous double-pullout in the men’s semifinals. But the tournament closed well, with weekend finals between the No. 1 and No. 2 men and women—not many events can say

WIMBLEDON, England—Court 3 was less than half full as Sloane Stephens and Petra Cetkovska began their warm-up on Friday afternoon. A large crowd had gathered for the previous match, in which Roger Federer’s conqueror, Sergiy Stakhovsky, had predictably fallen to earth. But those fans had since scattered, and it was

Howdy. The long slog is almost done, and TW should be back up and running purr-fectly within the next day or two, on a PC platform (not Politically Correct, but IBM-PC based) after a couple of hectic weeks of computer blues and other distractions—the chief of which was having had

(ed. note: correction appended. Pete) Howdy, Tribe. Hope you all had a good weekend. Mine had two highlights. First, the first snow squall of the year, Saturday afternoon. It was a sun shower of sorts, played out against a backdrop of the final glorious week of "leaf season." We stood

I am well aware that these days, most of my opponents are young enough to be my daughters. It’s crazy. But once I get onto the court for a match, it never crosses my mind. After all, my opponents are my peers, my competitors. When I first came back to

Editor's Note Last October, Frances Tiafoe defeated Andrey Rublev to reach the fourth round of the US Open. Today, in a Flushing Meadows rematch, Tiafoe repeated the result, this time in the quarterfinals. With the American now into his first Grand Slam semifinal, we're re-running our Tennis Magazine cover story

On Sunday, Dominic Thiem achieved his ultimate dream of winning a major trophy. The Austrian became the first man in the Open Era to win the US Open from two sets down, dashing Alexander Zverev's hopes with a 2-6, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 (6) victory. It's a journey Thiem will

“I play tennis for a living even though I hate tennis, hate it with a dark and secret passion and always have.” Do you remember those words, whose plain-spoken bleakness once stunned the sporting world? Ten years ago, Andre Agassi wrote them in his autobiography, Open, which soared to the

INDIAN WELLS, CALIF.—Let's just say it: Until today, it hadn’t been a great week for the WTA. The women’s tour went head to head with the men at just the wrong moment. The ATP semifinals gathered all the recent Grand Slam champions together, and the early rounds of the men’s

The Biggest Questions of 2019: Who will be the most successful American man?

There’s been a lot of talk over the last year, some of it done in this column, about Maria Sharapova’s mid-career transformation on clay. Suddenly, instead of slipping, the Cow on Ice was sliding, a trick that never comes naturally to a hard-courter like her. Instead of belting the ball

Every morning I get a wake-up call at my hotel. Every morning a woman's voice comes over the line and states the same facts in the same moderately cheery tone: "Good morning, today it will be 72 degrees and sunny. Enjoy your day." Is she real, or a recording? I

Today we’ll move on to discuss the valiant and the awful from the last two weeks at Wimbledon. But let me start with a last word about the best player of the tournament, Novak Djokovic, and the current state of his rivalry with the second-best, Rafael Nadal. Nadal was asked

At this time of year, a fan following the pro game might start to believe that there's a clay tennis court around every street corner in Europe. Across much of the United States, though, the surface is a rare, and rarified, phenomenon. You don’t see clay often as you travel

“Dav-a-DENK-o!” It’s not the easiest name for a crowd of thousands to chant, and it wasn’t heard often over the course of Nikolay Davydenko’s 15-year pro career. But back in 2007, the slouching rowdies inside the old center court at Rome’s Foro Italico turned it into a stirring melody. And

by Pete Bodo Yesterday, we pondered Serena Williams' future in tennis, so why not take a look today at the anti-Serena (even though the two women are friendly), Caroline Wozniacki? You know, the blonde, happy-go-lucky Dane who's been threatening to replace Kim Clijsters as the ranking "nice girl" of the

(Ed. Note - The fifteen of every month is now designated as TW's official* Lurker Amnesty Day. *Steggy and I invite one and all - especially you lurkers - to post tributes to, or general comments on, to Lindsay Davenport, the subject of this post. Lindsay basically retired from the

I had been hearing a lot about this quantum leap Donald Young has taken in his game, so I went to have a look for myself yesterday. Donald was up against Feliciano Lopez on Louis Armstrong, which became a great little stadium when they chopped the top off. As much

VIENNA—At the age of 20 or so, Dominic Thiem decided there was only one place he wanted to hang up his racquet when time came calling. Standing inside the Wiener Stadthalle in Vienna, the moment for Thiem to write the final chapter in a novel’s worth of remarkable stories authored