Roger Kaplan

It was what they call a coup de theatre, a moment of absurdity worthy of a play by Claude Feydeau, the…

“We can roll them up and finish this in a day.” It was April of  2004 and a combined Marine-Army…

Donald Trump went where no one dared: he said, in effect: stop fighting and start talking, and if you haven’t…

President Donald Trump is expected to watch the men’s singles final of the U.S. Open, played at the Billie Jean…

I was overthinking the unseemly spat in a second-round singles match at the U.S. Open, wherein the loser, Jelena Ostapenko,…

Playing in a second-round match at the U.S. Open against Jelena Ostapenko, Taylor Townsend benefited from a bit of luck…

The number I like to play in head best when on the tennis court is the Ellington/Armstrong version of “It…

If you imagined Chopin’s Polish March in the backbrains of Taylor Townsend and Shuai Zhang as they held their defensive…

Venus Williams won her first professional tennis title in the last century. She was only 14. As that century turned…

A young Frenchman named Corentin Moutet was whipping forehands to both wings to take the 10th game against a fellow…