Scheduling is a slippery and elusive topic. It is not necessarily easy, but it is not necessarily difficult, either. What do I mean when I say...
There are women’s international football teams, such as in the English Premier League. There is a women’s basketball equivalent of the NBA, the WNBA. Yet, international...
Tennis fans and commentators will debate the significance of Sunday’s Rome final between Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal in the days preceding the French Open, and...
Jo Konta rose to prominence in tennis at age 24, making the 2016 Australian Open semifinals. That was the best tournament and the biggest stage of...
Diego Schwartzman and Stefanos Tsitsipas aren’t telling the same story in Rome this week, but their different paths both illuminate a larger truth about the ATP...
Several years ago, the current landscape of the WTA Tour entering Roland Garros would have been viewed as the product of an unwelcome inconsistency. This year,...
Roger Federer has now won 1,202 main-draw tennis matches as an ATP singles player. He has played almost 1,500 main-draw matches. Out of all those matches...
Rome, as everyone knows, is the last big tournament before Roland Garros. Quite naturally, people who write, talk and podcast about tennis will wonder how Rome...
Matteo Berrettini defeated Alexander Zverev at the Rome Masters on Tuesday. The win was big for all the obvious reasons. Berrettini took down the 2017 Rome...
When in Rome, do what the Romans do. That familiar saying has been transformed into something more specific at the WTA Rome tour stop, the Premier...