Blogs

Most sports had to be reimagined for television. Tennis didn’t. Two players, one court, no teammates to hide behind, no coordinated play to follow across a crowded field. The drama is always visible, always personal, and it sits exactly where a camera wants to point. […]

Anyone who has followed a five-set thriller with a second screen open knows the strange rhythm of modern tennis coverage: the betting odds shift after every point, sometimes before the ball has finished bouncing. […]

The first serve receives most of the attention in tennis. It produces aces, impressive speeds, and dramatic highlights. Yet players often decide close matches by what happens after the first serve misses. Fans who watch tournaments, study stats, or bet online can learn a lot. […]

Every few weeks a scoreline turns up where the loser won more points than the winner. It looks wrong the first time, and then you check the box score and it is not a typo. Tennis does this more than any other major sport, and it is not bad luck or a rounding error. […]

Tennis runs the shortest off season in major sport. Roughly five weeks separate the last obligation of one year from the first flights to Australia, and players who go deep in November get closer to three. Skipping that block costs nothing you can see in January. […]

Wimbledon has always been built around history and tradition, but some of its most memorable days have come when the draw suddenly stops making sense. Grass can, and it will do that; the unforgiving surface rewards brave serving and quick reactions. […]

Prize money tables are public. What it costs to be in a position to earn from one is not. By the time a player walks on court, the week has already taken money out of their pocket for flights, a coach’s hotel, stringing, physio, and a stack of forms nobody films. […]