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…
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…
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…
In tennis news, Rafa Nadal took a fall on what he complained was a slippery line on the clay of Center Court at Rome’s Foro Italico. It did not stop him from winning the first set 7-5. He seemed out…
Iga Swiatek made short shrift of Camila Giorgi on the John Cain court at Melbourne Park, somewhat less short shrift of Fiona Ferro a couple days later on the Margaret Court court. You see in the progress of the 19-year-old…
Before the French Open started, experts assembled by Tennis magazine, including the assiduous historian Steve Flink, gave the tournament to Novak Djokovic over Rafael Nadal by four to three; the magazine’s editor, Steve Tignor, whose bias tends toward tradition, demurred…
