Roger Kaplan

Michael Mmoh and John Isner both won their first-round matches at the U.S. Open. The downside is that they meet…

One of our young staff, Luther Ray Abel, raised an interesting point the other day in one of our subscriber-only…

Does it matter whether Niger is run by a committee of high-ranking military men or an elected president who took…

The young Americans were looking good on serve, and you wondered, maybe a little too idly, whether the two caballeros…

It had been a tense first set, running nearly an hour, the two men on each other’s heels, and it…

Early in the match, Magdalena Fręch looked to break and jump ahead; she would hold serve in the next game…

They were both hitting pretty hard, strong deep shots from the baseline, the taller of the two girls controlling the…

Every edition of The Championships at the All-England Lawn Tennis Club at Wimbledon is automatically a great sports story. A…

The way Novak Djokovic won that first set with an unreachable diagonal forehand was not quite representative of the competitive…

We were discussing some of the finer aspects of Frances Tiafoe’s game when we got the word that a member…