Any tennis player who has won at least 16 major championships has been richly blessed. Yet, even a hugely successful career can be profoundly unlucky in...
If the Australian Open is the Happy Slam, the U.S. Open — the other hardcourt major played at a very different time of year — is...
This decade at the four major tennis tournaments is over. The next major tournament will belong to the 2020s, now that the 2019 U.S. Open has...
83 years ago at the U.S. National Championships – now referred to as the U.S. Open – one of the most prolific rivalries of early-20th-century men’s...
Before talking about Daniil Medvedev and where the future will take him after his gutsy performance against Rafael Nadal in the 2019 U.S. Open men’s final,...
The 2019 U.S. Open was won by Rafael Nadal, but it was defined by Daniil Medvedev. The 2019 U.S. Open men’s final was won by Rafael...
The story of the 2019 U.S. Open men’s final owns many dimensions. The story of Rafael Nadal in relationship to this match begins four years earlier...
The 1999 U.S. Open women’s final between Serena Williams and Martina Hingis owns a lofty place in the tennis pantheon. Venus Williams was widely regarded as...
In 2019, 14 different women made one major-tournament semifinal. Only two made more than one, and they met on Thursday night in the U.S. Open semifinals....
Roger Federer has lived on the wrong side of an injury on several occasions. The last four years, a physical limitation of some kind has interfered...
