Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal are back in an Australian Open men’s final, seven years after their first meeting in an Australian Open final. If ever...
Novak Djokovic is a helpful, kind person. He set the Australian Open men’s singles finals on a flat, even surface. He neatly arranged the backdrop to...
The greatest tennis players generally share this common trait: They have more ways to win a point than you do. There are exceptions, of course. Pete...
This will not be a long story, because Rafael Nadal’s win over Stefanos Tsitsipas in the Australian Open semifinals was mercifully brief. Nevertheless, this story —...
The Australian Open’s heat-based rules for closing its retractable-roof stadiums are not good. They are not wise. Anyone should be able to see that. It’s time...
We will talk about the stupidity of the Australian Open’s “Heat Stress Rule” and the use of a roof in a separate piece. For now, let’s...
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:...
