by Matt Zemek The history of men’s doubles in the Open Era is not primarily a story of Australia and America. It is better viewed as...
by Matt Zemek Borg-McEnroe burned very brightly… but very briefly. That’s Bjorn’s fault. Connors and McEnroe was large and brash, but it similarly lost top-tier significance...
by Matt Zemek In August, Roger Federer turned 37. Though this Golden Era of men’s tennis is running out of time, and though the days of...
by Matt Zemek When he came to the 2010 U.S. Open, Novak Djokovic had a perfectly solid and respectable career — actually, something much more than...
by Matt Zemek Bjorn Borg has been surpassed by Rafael Nadal for the title of “best male clay-court player of all time.” As in any instance...
by Matt Zemek It can be construed as a subtle dig at an athlete: the notion that a player “outlasts” her opponents. I understand why the...
by Matt Zemek Martina Navratilova won her first Wimbledon in 1978 as an enormously gifted but still chubby and naive person who had not yet reinvented...
by Matt Zemek “Can she handle the heat?” This question, when posed to athletes, is almost always meant on a figurative level. Can a tennis player...
by Jane Voigt Marin Cilic and Sam Querrey have had a spirited history on court, most of it on grass. Both men are six-feet-six inches tall. Both...
by Matt Zemek Looking like a stricken tennis player — and being struck down — when facing Barbora Strycova is something Garbine Muguruza can’t seem to...
