Aryna Sabalenka is in charge of the first set, women’s U.S. Open final against Corine (“Coco”) Gauff in Arthur Ashe Stadium, Billie Jean King Tennis Center at Flushing Meadows, Queens, N.Y.C. Facts matter, what and where, more than feeling and…
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…
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,…
Ahead two sets to one and 3-0 in the fourth, Rafael Nadal, four-time U.S. Open champion, struck himself in the schnoz with his racquet and stumbled to the sidelines as medics rushed on court. It is Arthur Ashe Stadium, the…
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…
Poland’s Iga Świątek, talented and likable, is now the No. 1 ranked woman in professional tennis.
At the French Open one time not too long ago, I spied an usher whom I remembered from a previous year and said hello. He was dressed impeccably in the designated business attire, and he acknowledged the greeting courteously. I…
Victoria Azarenka won the first point in her U.S. Open semifinal, but then she doubled, lost the next three points, and doubled again, bad start. She got a game along the way to a first set rout, but her old…