Early in the match, Magdalena Fręch looked to break and jump ahead; she would hold serve in the next game and have some leeway, which you need against Peyton Stearns, who played varsity tennis at Texas and hits big top…
They were both hitting pretty hard, strong deep shots from the baseline, the taller of the two girls controlling the pace with her forehand drive, a term you do not often hear around the pro circuit these days but the…
Every edition of The Championships at the All-England Lawn Tennis Club at Wimbledon is automatically a great sports story. A popular star aching for her first Slam took on and beat two of the best, including the defending champion, and…
The way Novak Djokovic won that first set with an unreachable diagonal forehand was not quite representative of the competitive level at that point. It was a tiebreak, meaning the two seeds had stayed close all the way, including some…
We were discussing some of the finer aspects of Frances Tiafoe’s game when we got the word that a member of our informal Maury Wills Athletic & Social Club, aka the East Side Racquets, which meets on the courts near…
There is much to say about Novak Djokovic’s tennis game, and you cannot reduce his mastery of the sport to any single factor. But if the need existed, as in headline writing — see above — patience would be worth…
The big news in the climate-change world came not from Davos this past week, although the sirocco of gaseous blatherskite pouring from the mouths of the assembled climatistas and rushing down the Swiss mountainside had to raise the temperature of…
The Aussie put an ace on the T at 6-4 in the tiebreak to put himself ahead two zero in sets against Andy Murray. It was round two at the Australian Open, under the lights. Notwithstanding a brilliant defense at…
A great queen was dethroned and a young princess stepped up and took her place. A king was knocked out by a very young pretender bursting with talent and energy. Serena Williams and Rafa Nadal, queen and king of tennis…
There was a moment after the first set tiebreak when you could be forgiven for thinking the tall Russian could rally and pull through. Ranked no. 1 worldwide, though barred from the previous major at Wimbledon due to wartime hysteria,…