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Serve and Volley
Serve and Volley
by | Jan 29, 2024

Appropriately, it was an overhead forehand smash at the net that clinched the men’s doubles at the Australian Open for the Anglosphere team of Matthew Ebden and Rohan Bopanna. The big man from Bangalore, at 43 one of the masters…

by | Jan 24, 2024

Seeds are what you expect to see at tournaments’ ends, and the first major of the year, the Australian Open, is true to form, with America’s top star, Coco Gauff, winner at the U.S. Open last September, on track for…

by | Jan 21, 2024

Melbourne is in its glorious summer — not that anyone from TAS is there, except via high tech — and it is time to assess the 2024 pro tennis situation.  But after the first week of the year’s first major,…

by | Sep 11, 2023

Obviously, there is something about Novak. Novak — Nole to his pals — Djokovic, the Serbian tennis champion, is the best practitioner of his sport in his time, which professionally speaking began around 2003. Twenty years later, he beat Daniil…

by | Sep 10, 2023

Aryna Sabalenka is in charge of the first set, women’s U.S. Open final against Corine (“Coco”) Gauff in Arthur Ashe Stadium, Billie Jean King Tennis Center at Flushing Meadows, Queens, N.Y.C.  Facts matter, what and where, more than feeling and…

by | Sep 5, 2023

There will be Americans — men and women — in the quarter-finals of the U.S. Open later this week, and at least one of each in the semis. This is serious progress, much better than the U.S. Congress’s ability to…

by | Sep 2, 2023

John Isner bangs a big ace to take the first point of the fourth set and scarcely a minute later he holds at love and the race is on. And a race it will be.  Michael Mmoh replies with a…

by | Aug 30, 2023

Michael Mmoh and John Isner both won their first-round matches at the U.S. Open. The downside is that they meet in the second round Thursday, which means there will be one American less in the men’s draw at close of…

by | Aug 7, 2023

The young Americans were looking good on serve, and you wondered, maybe a little too idly, whether the two caballeros from south of the border were intimidated. This was Washington, the center of power in the South American mind. You…

by | Aug 4, 2023

It had been a tense first set, running nearly an hour, the two men on each other’s heels, and it was the same in the second. And now, with the score 5–6 and 15–40, it was keep-your-nerve time. J.J. Wolf…

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