Nick Kyrgios brought only the pair of shoes he was wearing when he arrived on the court for his first-round match at the Western & Southern Open on Tuesday. Unfortunately for his tennis-playing aspirations, they were basketball shoes. […]
Mike Bryan and Jack Sock clinched their last two wins in incredible fashion as they teamed up to captured the Wimbledon doubles title. Bryan and Sock capped off their run with a 6-3, 6-7(7), 6-3, 5-7, 7-5 victory over Raveen Klaasen and Michael Venus on Saturday. […]
The end result of Saturday’s third-round match at Wimbledon between Novak Djokovic and Kyle Edmund was hardly the story. Djokovic prevailed in mostly routine 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-4 fashion in a contest that was plagued by controversy. […]
Stefanos Tsitsipas went 1-for-20 on break points during his 5-7, 6-4, 7-6(3) loss to Evgeny Donskoy in the first round of the Mutua Madrid Open on Tuesday. Tsitsipas converted one of 14 chances–enough to take the opening set–before going 0-for-4 in the second and 0-for-2 in the third. […]
The “Djokosmash” is one of the most notorious shots on the ATP World Tour. But Novak Djokovic took the “Djokosmash” to a whole ‘nother level on Monday at the Mutua Madrid Open. The 30-year-old Serb netted what should have been the simplest of overheads. […]
The quarterfinal contest between Grigor Dimitrov and Pablo Carreno Busta at the Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell took an unexpected and heated turn with the world No. 5 serving at 2-4 in the second-set tiebreaker. Dimitrov lost the point but thought Carreno Busta had stopped play. […]
Roberto Bautista Agut accidentally hit a ball that struck a ball-boy in the head during his third-round loss to David Goffin at the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters on Thursday. Bautista Agut, who ended up losing 6-4, 7-5, was given a warning for unsportsmanlike conduct. […]
Jared Donaldson was fined $6,200 for vociferously arguing a call during his loss to Albert Ramos-Vinolas in the first round of the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters on Monday. Donaldson got into a heated, face-to-face confrontation with chair umpire Arnaud Gabas. […]
A loss to Naomi Osaka is not exactly a bad result these days–certainly not for someone just make a comeback from childbirth. After all, Osaka just won the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells last weekend. No matter. Serena Williams was still fuming after getting trounced by the 20-year-old. […]
Serving with a break lead at 1-0 in the third set of his quarterfinal match against Robin Haase at the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament on Friday night, Roger Federer struck what appeared to be an ace. There was no out call, but Federer prepared to hit a second serve. He did, even after Haase told him there was no call. […]