Five years ago, back in the days before Rafael Nadal came to regard the red clay of Roland Garros as his own personal playpen, the man who appeared poised to claim the title of clay court king, Guillermo Coria, came within a point of winning the Roland Garros championship before bowing to Gaston Gaudio in an all-Argentine final. (more…)

There’s a Grand Slam title available at your fingertips and you don’t need a world ranking, a 125 mph serve, the strength of Serena or the rapid retrievals of Rafael Nadal to master a major. (more…)

It has been called the greatest tennis match ever played and in his new book A Terrible Splendor, author Marshall Jon Fisher peels back the layers of the extraordinary circumstances surrounding the 1937 decisive Davis Cup match between American World No. 1 Don Budge and German World No. 2 Gottfried Von Cramm staged on the historic grass-court grounds of Wimbledon’s Centre Court. (more…)

Novak Djokovic already knew the script to employ against Fernando Verdasco prior to today’s 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 quarterfinal conquest of the seventh-seeded Spaniard in Monte Carlo.

That’s because Djokovic already played Verdasco Monday night in Monte Carlo. (more…)

 He was born prematurely, bursting into this world on a bus while his mother and father were traveling to Guayaquil, Ecuador on June 21, 1920 as mosquitoes hung on the humidity as if it was a life preserver. (more…)

Tennis is a sport for a lifetime, unless of course you play professionally in which case people begin wondering before you hit 30 when you’re going to hang up your racquet and get on with your life?  (more…)

The ball lacked its typical bounce, but tennis was still a day at the beach for Jelena Jankovic, Carla Suárez Navarro, Virginia Ruano Pascual and tournament director and 1994 Wimbledon winner Conchita Martinez. (more…)

Six years ago, the slender young girl with massive strokes, a blond braid bouncing below her shoulder blades and a grunt so big she seemed to be channeling the gut-wrenching scream of a power lifter wrenching up personal best took the court beneath the bright sun at Crandon Park for one of the biggest finals of her junior career.  (more…)