The US Open main draw begins on Sunday, August 30, but that will not include the retiring Stan Wawrinka. The question that might be rightly asked by tennis fans is why. No good answer exists. Whereas ...

Nick Kyrgios has spent years embracing a bad-boy image, helping build his brand, including a podcast. The hope was that the image didn't indicate the tennis player's true self. That might not be the ...

A New York crowd loves an underdog. Maybe that explains the unprecedented run of unexpected women’s champions at the US Open over the last 20 years. The list of recent US women’s champions includes ...

Nothing about the first-round match of Wimbledon 2026 between Novak Djokovic and Wu Yibing was easy for either player. Wu was a great juniors player who has dealt with injuries that have thwarted any ...

The next Masters event, of which there is seemingly an endless number in the spring lead-up to the French Open, begins this week. The Madrid Open will start in full on Wednesday. Several big names ...

Good people deserve good things to happen to them, which is why the career of Grigor Dimitrov, one of the nicest players in tennis, is that he has been marred by so many injuries that he hasn't been ...

In a battle between a former WTA No. 1 and the current No. 1, Naomi Osaka took on Aryna Sabalenka in a match that would decide who would move into the quarterfinals of Wimbledon 2026. Sabalenka was ...

The Pete Sampras-Andre Agassi rivalry carries over into the argument over the most unexpected US Open champion. Who was better over time, but who was the most surprising winner, too. Sampras and ...

Matteo Berrettini was once one of the players who could become a menace to the rest of the ATP field. But after too many injuries, he wasn't available for many tournaments, and wasn't in great form ...

For the past three years, tennis fans have witnessed the emergence and rise of top WTA players like Mirra Andreeva, Jasmine Paolini, and Amanda Anisimova, among others, who have worked their way up ...

The way tennis does Grand Slam events is a bit odd. Part of the issue is when the weather is warm in different parts of the world, of course, but not having a major just a few weeks into a new tennis ...

Stefanos Tsitsipas seemed on the verge of being a longtime presence in the ATP top five in 2021. He reached No. 3, made the final of the French Open, and appeared destined to win a major or three one ...