An all-Aussie showdown in round one of the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament produced what might go down as the point of the year. Alex de Minaur and John Millman engaged in a 44-ball baseline rally, in which de Minaur was scrambling all over the place. […]
Is anything sweeter than maple syrup? When it’s helping a player (in this case Vasek Pospisil) win tennis matches, no. Canada’s favorite condiment has been benefiting from free advertising by Pospisil over the past few days. […]
Nick Kyrgios is usually–if not always–is the crazier of the two players in any singles match in which he is participating. For once that was not the case at the ATP Cup on Tuesday. […]
Rafael Nadal outlasted Daniil Medvedev in Sunday’s U.S. Open final, a five-set instant classic that lasted four hours and 49 minutes. The tennis world–and the entire sports world–was abuzz throughout the match and also afterward. […]
Leave it to Gael Monfils to convert match point with a 360-degree overhead smash. That’s how his U.S. Open second-round win over Marius Copil ended on Thursday night. Monfils moves on to a Saturday showdown against Denis Shapovalov. […]
The vote on a massive Davis Cup overhaul took place on Thursday and the new proposal earned enough votes to pass. Thus tennis’ annual team competition will look a lot different–and it will start right away in 2019. […]
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. […]