Two men who’ve each won two majors. Ascending Americans. Intriguing team events. And the shifting status of two tennis titans. Here’s more on five storylines in men’s tennis that could further shape the tale of 2024. Who’s No. 1? This being September, baseball’s pennant races are heating up. Though that’s

You don’t have to be a soothsayer to predict that, in less than two weeks, Ashleigh Barty will become the first native Australian to win the singles title in her home Grand Slam since Chris O'Neil ran the table in 1978. Everything has been breaking Barty's way since the season-ending

In this week's edition of The Rally, Joel Drucker and Steve Tignor assess the current craze for team play, offer ideas for college and Olympic formats, and yearn for the return of a good old-fashioned tournament. Hi Steve, As an individual sport, tennis highly values self-reliance, independence and sheer individual

Who has the star of the 2020 Australian Open been so far? Over the last two nights, it hasn’t been a person; it has been a scoring system. In 2019, the tournament installed a match tiebreaker—or super-tiebreaker, or 10-point tiebreaker, take your pick—at 6-6 in deciding sets. But it wasn’t

The Jack Kramer Club in Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, where legendary coaches such as Vic Braden and Robert Lansdorp helped shape the nascent games of Open-era icons including Tracy Austin, Pete Sampras and Lindsay Davenport, added another significant chapter to its legacy last December. It hosted the inaugural California Championships.

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All eyes were on us,” Luca Corinteli remembers. It was the spring of 2016, and the University of Virginia junior was playing in the final of the Division I NCAA Championships in Tulsa, OK. Two of the three doubles matches between Virginia and its opponent, the University of Oklahoma, had