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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
