NEW YORK—On a day when Bethanie Mattek-Sands ought to have been hitting tennis balls in Europe on a red-clay court under bright sun, she came hobbling through a cold, driving rain and the giant sliding glass doors of the New York Hospital for Special Surgery. Accompanied by her husband Justin,

Great responses to the last (but one) posts by Steggy and me. I was just telling her the other day that I'm always a little torn writing myself or my family into the posts; a part of me asks, Does anyone really care, at all, about this personal stuff. .

It’s nearly axiomatic that it takes a Grand Slam champion to put a new or resurgent tennis nation into the elite group of countries that can be described as tennis powers. You produce a Novak Djokovic and—bingo!—you soon have folks talking about Janko Tipsarevic (presently No. 9), Viktor Troicki (No.

[Ed. Note: Nicholas McCarvel is a summer intern at Tennis magazine, and I was delighted to learn that he's a native of Helena, Montana, a place never far from my my mind and heart. A 21-year old senior and journalism major at Seattle University, Nick has played tennis most of

There are no shortage of men’s storylines for the upcoming Wimbledon tournament. Between the fierce pressure Andy Murray will be under to mount an acceptable defense of his title and the prospects of Rafael Nadal after two years of bitter disappointment (to mention just two themes), it’s pretty easy to

Howdy, Tribe. Luke and I made an abbreviated trip to the farm again, this time so I could get back to watch the critical, final day of Davis Cup and - hey, hey! - every single first-round tie is heading into Day Three undecided. This is rockin' the Harda** Davis

NEW YORK—Watching Lleyton Hewitt fight his way right through to the bitter end of his four-set defeat to David Ferrer this afternoon, I couldn’t help but think of the Black Knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the one who has all four of his limbs hacked off by

ROME -- Six-time champion Rafael Nadal overcame one of the worst opening sets of his career to edge Latvian qualifier Ernests Gulbis 1-6, 7-5, 6-4 Thursday and reach the Italian Open quarterfinals. Nadal's performance, and sometimes sluggish movement on the court, raised questions about whether he will be able to

EASTBOURNE, England—It takes me about ten minutes after getting off the train and arriving at Devonshire Park, where the AEGON International is played, before I’m rejoicing in being back, in the unique freedom and intimacy of Eastbourne. Loitering for a minute outside the press centre, a group of officials walk

Ricardo Sanchez, coach to Nadia Petrova in 2012, helped his charge raise her ranking to No. 12. The two have since parted ways, a "consensual" choice, he says. Also shared between them before the split was the idea of focusing on singles in 2013 and forsaking, to a degree, doubles

CAGLIARI, ITALY—Italy won its fourth Fed Cup title in the past eight years on Sunday on the island of Cagliari when Sara Errani stomped Russia’s Alisa Kleybanova 6-1, 6-1 to give her nation an unassailable 3-0 lead. But while the Russia’s C-minus team was over matched in the final, that

World No. 1 Novak Djokovic took a big hit when he rolled his ankle in the first set of his fourth-rubber Davis Cup clash with top American Sam Querrey. But Djokovic sucked it up and played on, ultimately clinching the tie for Serbia (3-1) with a win. It was a

Well, my brief sojourn in Cincy is officially over; I need to head home to write the Nikolay Davydenko profile and get ready for our family vacation in Montana, which starts August 3. I'll be pretty much incommunicado between the 3rd and 14th, but am hoping to that some of

Howdy, folks. We just wrapped our latest podcast, covering a fair amount of territory. It should be live on the home page by this afternoon, and available via this link. I'm putting it all on the line by picking Zheng Jie to take out Justine Henin in the Australian Open

by Pete Bodo I must admit, I'm still perplexed by France's decision to play Gilles Simon in the second singles slot in tomorrow's Davis Cup opener against Serbia's Novak Djokovic. In my eyes, this has given the Serbs an enormous advantage, but who knows—it may turn out to be one

Elena Dementieva lost a very tight, tough 7-5, 7-6 (6) match to Justine "I'm coming back, too!" Henin at the Australian Open last night. After which Dementieva said, among other things: “I just think it's really interesting to play against someone like her. She's a great player. Playing against her,

Question: How many feminists does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Answer: That’s not funny! Oh, thank you, eager gender police – I had almost forgotten one of my all-time favorite lightbulb jokes; in fact, it’s right up there with the one about how many Williams sisters Kool-Aid drinkers

Craig Tiley has been on an impressive winning streak ever since he leveraged his role as Tournament Director of the Australian Open into an appointment as CEO of Tennis Australia. But evolving events during this pandemic suggest that he may be overplaying his hand. “We will send a signal to

Funny what a difference 24 hours can make. It was barely that long ago that the USTA, bowing to years of pressure, finally decided to deep-six the increasingly outdated “Super Saturday”—a scheduling format at the U.S. Open that had always been a flashpoint for controversy. Super Saturday was a tradition,

LjubicicBy TennisWorld Senior Contributing Editor Andrew Burton This is my fifth year in a row visiting Indian Wells, and I feel like I've got the first Saturday down to a fine art. Direct flight from Calgary: one of the more interesting plane approaches to an airport, skimming low through