Melbourne is in its glorious summer — not that anyone from TAS is there, except via high tech — and it is time to assess the 2024 pro tennis situation. But after the first week of the year’s first major,…
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…
Michael Mmoh and John Isner both won their first-round matches at the U.S. Open. The downside is that they meet in the second round Thursday, which means there will be one American less in the men’s draw at close of…
The young Americans were looking good on serve, and you wondered, maybe a little too idly, whether the two caballeros from south of the border were intimidated. This was Washington, the center of power in the South American mind. You…
It had been a tense first set, running nearly an hour, the two men on each other’s heels, and it was the same in the second. And now, with the score 5–6 and 15–40, it was keep-your-nerve time. J.J. Wolf…
Early in the match, Magdalena Fręch looked to break and jump ahead; she would hold serve in the next game and have some leeway, which you need against Peyton Stearns, who played varsity tennis at Texas and hits big top…
They were both hitting pretty hard, strong deep shots from the baseline, the taller of the two girls controlling the pace with her forehand drive, a term you do not often hear around the pro circuit these days but the…
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…
