by Matt Zemek As a native of Phoenix, Arizona, I can tell you that this desert city — roughly a five-hour drive from Indian Wells —...
by Briana Foust In 2008, at the age of 15, Sloane Stephens was given her first wild card into a WTA event. That event happened to...
by Matt Zemek For a sport with a World No. 1 player who has not yet won a major, women’s tennis is doing spectacularly well. It...
by Matt Zemek “Major” is a relative term, but the Monday matchup between Sloane Stephens and Garbine Muguruza at the Miami Open was “major” if only...
by Matt Zemek Tennis is rarely a theater of the perfect. More often than not, it is a theater in which being good enough is the player’s...
by Matt Zemek A spark — something which ignites, something which enlivens or brightens, something which makes life or its substances less dormant and more real....
by Matt Zemek So you want 16 seeds at high-end tennis tournaments, do ya? This invites situations such as the one seen on Friday morning (and...
by Matt Zemek No, Simona Halep doesn’t deserve the Congressional Medal of Honor for beating Oceane Dodin on Thursday in the second round of the Miami...
by Matt Zemek Before Caroline Wozniacki won her first major title at the 2018 Australian Open, she didn’t even get out of the first week at...
by Briana Foust It’s amazing how life can change in an instant. For Naomi Osaka, this instant was more or less three months of hard work. ...
