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Perhaps the most misleading feature of any ATP match are the digital boards that report the speeds of serves. Often crowds ooh and ah at the high numbers, but never do you hear as much about an impressive return of serve (and certainly no one gasps over consistency.) But as detailed in the [...]

John McEnroe, Bud Collins, Tennis Magazine’s Peter Bodo and Sports Illustrated’s L. Jon Wertheim all have rated Sunday’s final as the greatest match of all time, or at least of the Open era. (Sports Illustrated even put a match photo as the lead story on this week’s cover — when was the last time the [...]

Rafa is rearing to go all the way.  I think that Radek Stepanek with his all-court game will run into Nadal in the round of 16, and will give him more trouble than most, but I don’t think anyone can beat Rafa this year, not even the Fed.  Having a special logo with [...]

Rafael Nadal’s run in Paris without losing a set was the first time a French Open champion has won the tournament without losing a set since the great Bjorn Borg. With four titles at Roland Garros under his belt, can he win on the lawns of London? He has reached the finals of Wimbledon the [...]

Federer put up a more respectable fight in the second set, but now that he’s down two-sets-to-none, his chances of winning in Paris again are almost nil.  UPDATE–In fact, Federer didn’t win another game, losing 6-1, 6-3, 6-0.

Federer put up a more respectable fight in the second set, but now that he’s down two-sets-to-none, his chances of winning in Paris again are almost nil.  UPDATE–In fact, Federer didn’t win another game, losing 6-1, 6-3, 6-0.

Ion Tiriac, the former player, coach and agent who later became the richest Romanian and his country’s first billionaire, has a prime front-row seat at today’s match.  You can’t miss his famous burly mustache. Tiriac wants to add a fifth grand slam to the tour to be played in Madrid, it was reported last fall.

Bjorn [...]

When Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal step onto the red clay of Court Phillippe Chatrier on Sunday, Federer’s claim to be the greatest of all time—the GOAT, as Peter Bodo calls it—hangs in the balance. Because while this debate is one that will never have a definitive answer, I believe a player can only claim [...]

NBC carried two hours and 45 minutes of the Nadal’s win over Djokovic via tape delay on Friday–the problem is, the match lasted two hours and 49 minutes, but NBC cut out a large portion of the second set to pack in more advertisements.  In some markets, fans didn’t even get to see Nadal at [...]

The battle for the world’s number two ranking between Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic, and a fired-up Frenchman vying to claim his country’s first men’s singles title since Yannick Noah in 1983, will take to the red clay stage of the French Open on Friday. If Djokovic can beat Nadal, he will move into [...]