Sloane Stephens was favored to win the first match of the evening session of the U.S. Open, a major event in New York City’s sports calendar. She played in Arthur Ashe Stadium, the world’s largest tennis venue with a capacity…
Sebastian Korda won the Washington Open on Sunday, the first American man to do so since Andy Roddick in 2007. Great USA players of yore, Arthur Ashe, Jimmy Connors, Andre Agassi among others, brought fame to themselves and to this…
The match on Court Four at the FitzGerald Center in Washington’s Rock Creek Park had Maxime Cressy hitting 130, 135 mph serves to the lines or to the feet and Daniel Galan could not do anything about them and the first game…
Marc Polmans made a ballgame of it on the first day of the qualifying draw at Washington’s storied tennis tournament, these days called the Mubadala DC Citi Open, at Kennedy and 16th St. in Rock Creek Park. Polmans went down…
Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic may have lost the final at Wimbledon this last week but he maintained his crown as the leading advocate for medical freedom in the sporting world. Missing his chance to clench a 25th Grand Slam…
The French at Wimbledon Were you to ask anyone at SW 19 when was the last time a Frenchman won the All-England Championships at Wimbledon, classiest tournament in tennis, you would get a blank stare. Without a copy of Bud…
Finally, a news event on which to peg a rant about a pox that has descended on the sporting world. I am, of course, speaking about pickleball — the pox — and a story in Outkick — the news event….
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…
Appropriately, it was an overhead forehand smash at the net that clinched the men’s doubles at the Australian Open for the Anglosphere team of Matthew Ebden and Rohan Bopanna. The big man from Bangalore, at 43 one of the masters…
