MADRID — Nerves have been part of Davis Cup since tennis’s oldest team competition began 119 years ago. But the edginess has a different source than usual this week in Madrid, where Davis Cup’s final rounds have been radically transformed by an unlikely partnership between the International Tennis Federation and the Spanish soccer star Gerard […] More
LONDON — A year ago, Stefanos Tsitsipas won the NextGen Finals, the showcase tournament for players 21 and younger that is meant to be a harbinger of future greatness in men’s tennis. In Tsitsipas’s case, the future is now. In an up-and-down final on Sunday, he rallied and held on to beat Dominic Thiem, 6-7 […] More
LONDON — Dominic Thiem will not admit to being superstitious. He said his 5-year-old habit of twirling the tennis ball around in his fingers before every serve is no different than Alexander Zverev tugging at his shirt in between points or Rafael Nadal lining up his bottles in perfect order beside his chair. It is […] More
LONDON — For the first time since 2007, and only the second time in the ATP Finals’ 49-year history, only one American player competed in singles or doubles at the elite year-end event. He was not John Isner, the highest-ranked American man in singles, who played in the tournament last year. He was not Jack […] More
Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan, the twins who are far and away the most successful American men in professional tennis over the past two decades, announced Wednesday that they planned to end their careers at next year’s United States Open. Starting at the 2003 French Open, the Bryans have won 16 Grand Slam doubles titles […] More
PERTH, Australia — Kristina Mladenovic inspired France to a drought-breaking Fed Cup triumph, a nail-biting 3-2 win in the final against Australia on Sunday. Mladenovic combined with Caroline Garcia to beat Ashleigh Barty and Samantha Stosur, 6-4, 6-3, in the decisive doubles match at Perth Arena. She produced a herculean effort on the outdoor hard […] More
Matteo Berrettini could not bring himself to watch the match, or even to check the score. The Italian player knew he was on the precipice of becoming one of only eight players to qualify for the year-end Nitto ATP Finals at London’s O2 arena. All he needed was for Denis Shapovalov to beat Gaël Monfils […] More
Juan Sebastián Cabal and Robert Farah became stars this season when they won Wimbledon and the United States Open. But for the Colombian doubles team, which leads the field at the Nitto ATP Finals in London starting on Sunday, stardom is relative. While the men’s and women’s doubles tours are experiencing something of a boom […] More
