A grey day in Paris was transformed with dramatic decisiveness as Jo-Wilfried Tsonga beat the fleeing light and the fleet-footed Juan Monaco in an entertaining encounter that pitted Monaco’s unerring baseline precision with Tsonga’s pyrotechnic prowess. (more…)

Tennis is a futures game where forward thinking can be as vital as lateral movement. You strike one shot to set up the next, win games to gain ground toward collecting sets with each match victory marking more mileage on the roadmap that is a tournament draw. (more…)

Pounding his way past opponents as if they were as imposing as paper pinatas, Rafael Nadal has transformed clay courts all over the world into burial grounds for challengers. (more…)

Champions don’t often make house calls on centre court, but that didn’t stop Andre Agassi from audibilizing a tennis SOS to wife Steffi Graf on Sunday. (more…)

Chair umpires taking the traditional trip onto the terre battue to inspect ball marks won’t be the only ones leaping out of their seats during this French Open fortnight. (more…)

Just about the time the world’s best players begin sliding across the red clay for the start of the French Open in Paris on May 24, you can pound the pavement in New York City and run into six-time Roland Garros champion Bjorn Borg — exposing his underwear. (more…)

Spring is often cast as the season of rebirth but you can just as easily view it as nature’s big-hearted hit man delivering last rites to a terminally ill winter wheezing away its last gasps of life after embracing euthanasia. (more…)

The had a hand in creating some of tennis’ most memorable watershed moments and on Thursday afternoon in New York City, Hall of Famers Billie Jean King and John McEnroe were at it again in turning the tap on for a day of water works aimed to inspire a wave of interest in tennis. (more…)

The tennis turf war becomes a more methodical ground game on red clay where probing for open space in the unforgiving place of Rafael Nadal’s defense is about as easy as squeezing a shot through a red brick wall.   (more…)