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
Tennys Sandgren, who was on a roll before professional tennis shut down, has had enough of video games and self-isolation in his home near Nashville, Tenn. “I’d play tennis in a hazmat suit, just to go compete. I’m itching,” he said on Wednesday night. Such extreme measures will not be necessary, just a 12-hour road […] More
Most of my childhood friends from our predominantly white New Jersey suburb have a story about how their love of sports began — usually involving their fathers. Shaun’s played catch with him for hours in the backyard and took him to baseball card shows, hence Shaun’s love of baseball. Matt’s brought him up watching Knicks […] More
