Although Olga Govortsova, who is from Minsk, a city in Belarus, stands six feet and weighs in at 150 pounds, she was crushed by the mighty Li Na, the most famous Chinese athlete in the world, in their first-round match…
The Rogers Cup finals, named after a grand Canadian named Rogers though no one seems to remember his first name, gave me a queasy feeling. I felt I ought to avert my eyes. The finals involved two of the greatest…
First Stepanek, then Fish, hit a shot around the post for a winner, in each case getting the ball behind the backs of their opponents. Although there were no other stunners quite like these almost back-to-back around-the-posters, the plays were…
Tommy Haas remarked that, as he approaches the end of his career as a tennis pro, he becomes more aware of the crowd cheering him on, which he remembers as being less interested in, less conscious of even, when he…
They called a rain delay just as the third set was beginning on Stadium Court at the William H. G. FitzGerald Tennis Center, home of Washington, D.C.’s annual tennis classic, which has gone through a number of name changes and…
You cannot say the better man always wins in a sports competition but it is usually the case that the man who played better wins. This is one of those themes you hear all your life in locker rooms and…
It was a decidedly uneven day for American tennis as the first round ended at the CitiOpen tournament, played at the William H.G. Fitzgerald Tennis Center at 16th and Kennedy Streets in Northwest Washington. Veteran Mardy Fish came back from…
Matthew Ebden, whose usual MO is to serve and volley in the tradition of Australian tennis — he is Australian — steps behind the baseline for a textbook demonstration of tactical defense. He takes Saketh Myneni’s smash from midcourt and…
Tennis fan or no, you have heard it or heard-about-it, because it is like the Chicago Cubs, like Alf Landon, like that notorious pop song. “I can’t get no,” and so forth. The British Isles gave us tennis and tennis’s…