In sharp contrast to their first round matches, Jannik Sinner and Iga Swiatek were all business in the second round, straight sets and time to spare. Thrilling rallies there were, but no doubts about bottom lines. It took Sinner two…
Sloane Stephens was favored to win the first match of the evening session of the U.S. Open, a major event in New York City’s sports calendar. She played in Arthur Ashe Stadium, the world’s largest tennis venue with a capacity…
Sebastian Korda won the Washington Open on Sunday, the first American man to do so since Andy Roddick in 2007. Great USA players of yore, Arthur Ashe, Jimmy Connors, Andre Agassi among others, brought fame to themselves and to this…
The match on Court Four at the FitzGerald Center in Washington’s Rock Creek Park had Maxime Cressy hitting 130, 135 mph serves to the lines or to the feet and Daniel Galan could not do anything about them and the first game…
Marc Polmans made a ballgame of it on the first day of the qualifying draw at Washington’s storied tennis tournament, these days called the Mubadala DC Citi Open, at Kennedy and 16th St. in Rock Creek Park. Polmans went down…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
