Surprises and upsets are the normal fare at sporting events, but do they determine outcomes? Usually not: this year’s French Open, which concluded yesterday, pitted the no.’s 1 and 2 seeds against each other in both the women’s and men’s…
New Jersey’s own Tommy Paul and Maryland’s own Frances Tiafoe made it into the second week, and thus the quarter-finals, of the French Open. This is good news for American tennis, considering no American man since Andre Agassi in 1999…
As we file, Jannik Sinner, the leading Italian tennis player and world No. 1, is playing point for point against the Spanish star Carlos Alcaraz. If the latter is heir to the immortal Rafael Nadal, the former carries the athletic…
Madison Key’s three-set win in the ladies’ final at the Australian Open over defending champion Aryna Sabalenka is a textbook case of couldn’t happen to a more deserving lass. The one-time golden teen of American tennis, expected to be the…
An old joke: A tourist gets in a cab in New York and asks, “You know how to get to Carnegie Hall?” — “Practice, chief, practice.” Jannik Sinner put it that way when asked for a few words upon receiving…
Jessica Pegula, the all-American girl from Buffalo, N.Y., now a young woman of 30 and a model of persistence, work ethic, and the cool style in American manners (“I had a good tournament? eh, whatever … “), lost a hard-fought…
Ladies first, and following the semis on Thursday to determine the championship finalists in the women’s draw at the U.S. Open, the young men stepped on the greatest stage in the tennis world, Arthur Ashe Stadium at the Billie Jean…
With a roar and a mighty overhead smash Aryna Sabalenka announced there would be no all-American women’s final at the U.S. Open. She put an end to Emma Navarro’s Cinderella run to the semis, dictating with power and precision through…
Coco Gauff had a taste of her own advice when Emma Navarro beat her decisively in the round of sixteen at the U.S. Open in Flushing Meadows, N.Y. In the previous round they both beat their Ukrainian opponents, Elena Svitolina…
