As the tennis world debates when it will be safe to resume official competition, Roger Federer has made it clear he will not return to the courts in 2020. On Wednesday, he announced that he recently had a second operation on his right knee and that he would not play again this year. Federer, 38, […] More
The men’s singles final at the French Open was supposed to be Sunday, with fans sporting Panama hats, players sliding on the red clay and a new retractable roof overhead that, given Sunday’s fine forecast, would most likely have remained open. But that plan was made before the tennis schedule, like so many others in […] More
Traditionally, this is Rafael Nadal’s time to dominate: the week when the world’s premier clay-court tennis tournament, the French Open, comes to a close, and when Nadal secures another singles title. He has won the Open an astounding 12 times, but this is a season like no other, and instead of pumping his fist and […] More
Officials are considering a central location to salvage two of the biggest tournaments in the United States. More
World TeamTennis, the coed professional tennis league that has operated in summers after Wimbledon since the 1970s, has chosen a site in West Virginia to conduct its entire 2020 season, according to several people familiar with the league’s plans. Play on the men’s and women’s professional tennis tours has been suspended until at least Aug. […] More
Ron Yu, a racket technician for some of the best players in the world, has lost his primary source of income during the coronavirus pandemic but also remembered how much he loves the sport. More
As the public health crisis drags on, it becomes more difficult to see a path toward holding the tournament as originally planned. More
After leaders of the men’s tennis tour, including Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, said they wanted to explore a merger with the women’s circuit, the head of the Women’s Tennis Association has made it clear that the feeling is mutual. “I’m not afraid of the full merger; I never have been,” Steve Simon, the chief […] More
