The Miami Open at Hard Rock Stadium was a dramatic tournament this year, with the tough and persistent and courageous Danielle Collins riding a low seed — was she seeded at all? — all the way to the win, her…
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…
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…
Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson By Ashley Brown (Oxford University Press, 595 pages, $29.95) Iga Świątek, WTA top-ranked tennis player, and Aryna Sabalenka, right behind her at No. 2. battled it out for the prize at…
The aces and the line-edging service returns began in earnest in the middle of the first set, replacing the somewhat sloppy error-prone early games. It was the first round of the women’s draw at the U.S. Open Tennis Championships, and…
Iga Świątek’s win streak reached No. 37 with a tough three-set win over a Dutch lass, Lesley Pattinama Kerkhove, in the second round at the AELTC Championships. Mr. Pleszczynski and I looked at the up side — gritty come-from-behind, forehand…
Bjorn Fratangelo beat Ivo Karlović as the Citi Open got under way at the William H. G. Fitzgerald Tennis Center on the edge of Washington’s Rock Creek Park. And to close out the opening night of the first round at…
Comebacks make great stories, and when they are combined with Cinderella moments in athletic competition, they make great copy. On the most revered stage in tennis, the show courts at the All-England Racquet Club, Cori Gauff, age 15, has been…
John Isner went deep and gritty to take the Miami Open title yesterday, defeating Alexander Zverev in three close sets after losing his lead in the first-set tiebreak. With Sloan Stephens hoisting the trophy on the women’s side after a…
The Japanese girl falls behind right away, on serve at 15-40 in the first game of the opening set, visibly uncertain and, admit it, kind of awed. She is hitting her vigorous long groundstrokes and it is clear right away…