If  you’ve watched 15 minutes of the U.S. Open by now, you’ve probably seen one of the USTA’s ads about its 10 and under tennis program.   Is this concept really that new?  Perhaps it is in the days of graphite rackets that can’t be sawed off like my first wooden racket (a Jack Kramer), [...]

Zero to nine. The number says it all.  That is the record of American men versus Spanish men in singles during Wimbledon and the recent Davis Cup meeting.
For some well-chosen but dismal descriptions of the state of the American team, check out Jonathan Scott on Tennis.com who concludes his article “U.S. Davis Cup Team Walks [...]

It’s been quite a long time since two American men have reached the quarters of a Grand Slam.  And good to see that Roddick broke the streak of Spanish wins over American players. Now he just has to keep it going against Nadal, but I think he has a good shot on the hard courts.  [...]

All my life I have been playing tennis and reading Tennis Magazine, so it was a thrill two years ago when Peter Bodo published an essay I wrote about searching for Bill Tilden’s grave in the U.S. Open issue. Earlier this year I happened to play Anna Mamalat, a 15-year-old girl with a professional world [...]