That might seem like an incendiary story title, so let’s be clear: The charity Karolina Pliskova accepted was not from Serena Williams. It was from an...
It is one of the central tasks — and measurements — of elite tennis players: Do you back it up? No, I am not referring to...
I am going to be blunt: Most readers of this website, in America or abroad, don’t really want to read or hear much about Danielle Collins....
As Rafael Nadal prepares for his latest Australian Open semifinal — the 30th major semifinal of an iconic career — he has crossed one important threshold:...
We who cover tennis for a living will not lie to you: Petra Kvitova versus Serena Williams would be good for blogs and podcasts and TV...
I am not going to eviscerate Borna Coric. Criticize him? Yes… but not tear him apart. The story I am about to tell is more complicated...
Sportswriters try to be original, chiefly in how they treat the sporting event they just witnessed. “How can I put a fresh spin on this match,...
Irony is a constant reality of life. All the time, our lives get turned upside-down in some way. Our expectations and perceptions are constantly thwarted and...
Intersectionality is the hot academic term in American politics these days, referring to the intersection of race-centric issues and class-centric concerns which affect both politics and...
Beating Roger Federer at a major tournament speaks for itself, viewed in isolation and disconnected from any other contexts or considerations. Yet, Stefanos Tsitsipas’s unavoidably familiar...