You might have heard me say this before: Circumstances shape matches. Serena Williams knows this as well as anyone. If you were to pick a set...
Look at that picture. Look at Serena Williams looking straight into the sun at the Miami Open on Friday. This wasn’t a “natural” sun which shines...
Serena Williams and Victoria Azarenka took us on a carousel ride bathed in nostalgia on Friday night in Indian Wells. Nostalgia: It’s delicate, but potent. In...
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...
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...
Serena Williams is busy playing Indian Wells and Miami during the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament, but she knows how the NCAA Tournament — also...
This U.S. Open should have been a celebration. After all the Open Era began in 1968, 50 years ago. Serena Williams was inches from her 24th...
In order to gain perspective on the past four women’s tournaments at the U.S. Open, consider the culture of tennis within an American perspective. This scene-setter...
Mohamed Lahyani and Carlos Ramos made headlines at the past U.S. Open, but they made headlines in very different ways. The two men acted at the...
“Tennis conflicts of interest.” The expression is a redundancy these days, and has been for some time. Tennis just can’t seem to deal with conflicts of...