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I came out of tennis blogging retirement just to use the B52s inspired line “Playing tennis in your own private Idaho” about the USTA choice to play the Davis Cup match against Serbia in Boise.  Check out my article on the sports site The Classical. They cut an original lead also inspired by the song [...]

First off, great congratulations to the Bryan Brothers, who set the record for most Grand Slam wins in doubles on Friday with their fourth U.S. Open championship.  They also hold the record for most doubles wins ever.  They have without question established themselves as the GOAT — greatest of all time — in men’s doubles.  [...]

Once again, the top four seeds are in the quarters of a Grand Slam, and most likely, once again they’ll reach the semis.  How many times are we going to see Djokovic, Fededer, Nadal, and Murray play one another?  They’ve played so many great matches already — what more can they do?  The rematches will [...]

An e-mail from the USTA earlier today set this scenario for a Davis Cup match in the U.S. this year: “After a hard fought first round victory over Roger Federer and Team Switzerland, February 10-12 in Fribourg, Switzerland, the United States will play France in the quarterfinals at an away tie in Monte Carlo April [...]

In an interview Peter Bodo did with me about my new novel on his TennisWorld blog on Feb. 4, his final question to me was, “Federer, or Nadal? And why.” I answered:  “I’m not allegiant to either one. What I would really love to see is my fellow Georgia Bulldog John Isner beat one of [...]

Roger Federer will play for his home country this weekend, but don’t chalk it up to nationalistic pride — he has to play in order to be eligible for the Olympics this summer. When Switzerland played the U.S. in Birmingham, Ala., in 2009, the “Greatest of All Time” bailed on his country only two weeks [...]

I never thought Novak Djokovic would get out of that fifth set of the Australian Open final alive.  Between that and coming back from match point against Federer at last year’s U.S. Open, I now wonder if he’s made any deals more significant than a shoe and racket contract — such as selling his soul.

She’s bigger than the rackets and much more mobile than she was in last year’s picture.

William Randolph Hearst’s home in San Simeon, California, once the site of many star-studded tennis matches, is as close as America has to a great castle.  But on that court even the very rich and famous had to deal with late afternoon shadows that make the ball hard to see.  Fall Line, my second novel, [...]

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), [...]