Women’s tennis is in a very good place these days. Quality, depth, youth, competitive chops — they exist in abundance on a WTA Tour which has...
Tennis, as I am fond of saying, is a dialogue. Most sports — golf being a conspicuous exception — involve the push and pull of one...
The photo for this story comes from the 2018 U.S. Open. That was the tournament in which Dominic Thiem made the first substantial hardcourt breakthrough of...
The Big 3 live in their own exalted realm, and have done so for quite a long time. The three iconic male tennis players of this...
This is London. After the first four matches at the 2018 ATP Finals, the following statement contains a lot more weight: A second championship match could...
Great coaches in any sport certainly have a few things in common, but when I compare tennis coaches to coaches in other sports, I usually keep...
We know that Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer have won a lot of ATP Finals (formerly the Tennis Masters Cup). We know Rafael Nadal has never...
Competitive space — what do you think that means? It is not a commonplace term in the lexicon of sports, but it kept coming back to...
Paris Masters tournament director Guy Forget badly wanted Roger Federer to play in his tournament last year, with Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray and Stan Wawrinka trying...
Death. Taxes. Rafael Nadal being injured in October. This is the way the tennis world works. It’s not fun. It’s not happy. It’s not what anyone...