Sara Errani stands at the baseline and exhales deeply. She is about to hit a second serve, with Italy up match point against Poland. A place in the Billie Jean King Cup final is at stake. So Errani ...
It wasn’t the way the higher minds of American tennis drew it up when they set out on their mission to make mixed doubles a thing. They had their hearts set on a star-studded showdown, with singles ...
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 ...
Coco Gauff is the type of athlete that sportswriters love to cover. Along with being a pleasant person in general, she’s also someone who will think out loud in press conferences, rather than just ...
Whether it was Emma Raducanu’s open-mouthed, head-in-hands reaction to a Carlos Alcaraz forehand winner around the net, or Novak Djokovic’s jig following a forehand passing shot of his own, there were ...