If a graphic example were needed of the internal psychological warfare tennis players often wage in their own minds, the first hour of Dominic Thiem's U.S. Open final against Alexander Zverev would be ...

Coco Gauff broke Belinda Bencic’s serve to open the deciding set and went on to beat the Swiss player 4-6, 7-6 (4), 6-2 to advance to the China Open quarterfinals ...

Practising on the tournament’s Centre Court, the footage seems to suggest that Vagnozzi and Sinner are working on a shortened takeback on his service motion, with Vagnozzi holding a racket out to ...

Michael Center recounts arrest, conviction and prison time in new memoir Book outlines Center's coaching success and personal fallout post-scandal Center shares life lessons through 'five pillars' ...

Welcome back to the Monday Tennis Briefing, where The Athletic will explain the stories behind the stories from the past week on court. This week, a new tennis serve entered the canon, the first ...

The Davis Cup is always witness to some exciting tennis action and on Saturday (September 13) Zsombor Piros left the audience in Debrecen stunned when he pulled off a bizarre overarm dropshot serve.

Just days before the U.S. Open lit up Queens, another corner of New York City was buzzing with its own exciting tennis athletes. In Harlem’s Howard Bennett Playground, community courts turned into a ...

Every sport has its own little quirks and oddities (I’m still not clear on why a football field is technically called a “gridiron”), but tennis might rank among the strangest. From the illogical ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Coco Gauff wishes she weren't trying out a new service motion in what she called “the high-stress situation” of the U.S. Open. She would have loved to have more time to collaborate ...

One of the great, gripping rivalries in 2025 women’s tennis is here, as Coco Gauff is pitted against her recalcitrant serve. The 21-year-old American struggled for the first five months of the year, ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Featuring the good, the bad and the ugly, ‘Look of the Week’ is a regular series dedicated to unpacking the most talked about outfit of the last seven days. As soon as seven-time Grand ...