Looking back over the vast landscape of Maria Sharapova’s illustrious career, it is apparent that this pugnacious competitor has always prided herself on elevating her game for auspicious occasions. Sharapova is, after all, a career Grand Slam champion, and deservedly so. She took her first of the four prizes at

Thirteen years after Rafael Nadal won his first French Open, we may finally have reached the logical conclusion of his dominance on clay. We’re not watching to see if anyone can beat him on the surface; the idea seems too far-fetched to contemplate at the moment. Instead, we’re watching to

Can you imagine if the entire tennis season were like the Olympics? On the one hand, it would be tremendously exciting. Every match during the Games, and sometimes every point, can feel like a life-or-death experience. On the other hand, it would also be tremendously stressful, for exactly the same

There's nothing like Paris in the springtime, they say. As these 10 epics—the 10 most memorable French Open matches of the Open Era—show, there's also nothing quite as stirring or sensation as tennis in Paris at this time of year. You only have to listen to the two men who

ROME, Italy—Sitting down after a dominant start to her Internazionali BNL d’Italia campaign, Elina Svitolina looks up at the pair of journalists waiting for her in the mixed zone with wide eyes, looking not a day older than when she first won the first of her back-to-back titles in 2017.

MADRID (AP) — Canada became the first team to reach the semifinals of the new Davis Cup Finals, winning the decisive doubles match to beat Australia 2-1 on Thursday. Vasek Pospisil and Denis Shapovalov defeated John Peters and Jordan Thompson 6-4, 6-4 to give Canada its first Davis Cup win

The Next Gen ATP Finals—the year-end 21-and-under championships—is just a week away, and this year's Milan field features a mix of young stars with spotlight experience and surging competitors who are still almost famous. Two of the top three players in the Next Gen standings are unavailable, with 2018 champion

PARIS—What do you hear when you walk onto the grounds at Roland Garros? There may be a d’accord to your left or a mais non to your right. In the distance, past the trees and over a stadium wall, you might catch an “Egalité” or a “Jeu Djokovic” intoned by

The best thing about Davis Cup? Could it be the draw ceremony photos? The players laugh, shake hands, talk to each other, even throw a hug out now and then. We get to see them interact, in other words, something we don’t see much of on the regular tour, where

A competitive five-set match, all wrapped up in 90 minutes: Is this just the stuff of a TV scheduler’s dream? Believe it or not, it happened last January, when Roger Federer beat Lleyton Hewitt, 4–3 (5–3), 2–4, 3–4 (3–5), 4–0, 4–2, in Sydney, Australia. Yes, you read those scores correctly.

This week we’re debuting a new feature, First Ball In, that will run every Monday to Friday, and which I’ll be writing most of the time. During the European clay season, the post will appear each afternoon at 4:00 P.M. Eastern time; when the tours are in the States, it

This week, TENNIS.com editor Kamakshi Tandon and I are discussing John Newcombe's Bedside Tennis, a collection of anecdotes and observations by the legendary Aussie player published in 1983.

“It’s unbelievable what he’s been doing,” Andy Murray said of Radek Stepanek after coming back to beat the 37-year-old Czech, 3-6, 3-6, 6-0, 6-3, 7-5, on Tuesday at Roland Garros. “I don’t expect to be doing that at his age.” After spending three hours and 41 minutes, and the better

PARIS—These are the long days, the ones that start at 8 A.M. and finish at 11:30 P.M., the ones where the U.S. press, with our latest of all deadlines, has to wake up the security guards to let us out of the place. The mornings, afternoons, and evenings are hectic,

To wind up 2014, I’m reposting 14 articles I liked from this past season. I’ll put up one each day until January 5, when the new season begins. At Wimbledon, I wondered how should we feel about the resurgence of two players, Marin Cilic and Barbora Zahlavova Strycova, a year

Tennis has been transformed over the last five decades by TV, money, technology, equipment, fashion and politics. But through all of that, the players have remained at the heart of the game. As part of our golden anniversary celebration of the Open era, Tennis.com presents its list of 50 best

It’s a good time to be a tennis player. Every other week, it seems, one of the Grand Slams announces a whopping double-digit boost in prize money. Today it was Wimbledon’s turn to pony up: For the 2013 event, the All England Club is increasing its payout to the players

Steve, OK, so Brad Gilbert is better at picking matches than I am. Yes, Kendrick lost to Nadal, but pushed him to the brink, certainly much further than I thought possible. We should’ve gotten BG into our suicide pool. It wouldn’t be the first time I would’ve stuck my keyboard

You never know exactly when a kid is going to show you something. This past March, I sat on a deep outside court in Indian Wells and watched Ryan Harrison try in vain to keep the ball in the court during the first set against Ivan Ljubicic. I wondered exactly

TATT’S NOT ALL WHITE! The Daily Mail, it seems, has discovered Bethanie Mattek-Sands, and they’re determined to make the most of her. The 30-year-old veteran, who is, as the paper puts it, “famed for her flamboyant style,” just can’t resist injecting a little color into Wimbledon’s all-white garden party. What