Four more days and it will be 2021. Calendars are only ways of keeping track of tennis dates, but still…

The theological banter with Giovanni was not on Christmas Eve but on the day before. Christmas Eve this year in…

Giovanni, a Rose Park tennis pal, sent me a picture of the Trevi fountain in its nocturnal serenity. I shot…

We were approaching the last weekend of October when Oumi, my better half — better three-quarters, Mr. Thornberry reminds me…

Anything can happen in tennis, but the two-set trouncing of Simona Halep by Iga Swiatek was a shocker. The teen…

There was not much to say about the match between Simona Halep and Sara Sorribes Tormo other than that the…

If a pitcher steps off the mound after giving up a two-run homer that blows his lead and throws a…

The rain came in the evening as we were warming up last week, and when it let up a bit…

When in doubt, or even when not, turn to the classics. One of these is Gwendolyn Brooks, whose depth and…

You hit the wall, bam, curtains. It is a grim picture, and it has been waking me up every morning…