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There was a thought, maybe even a hope, from a minority that just wanted to see some variety, that the different sett…

It has been three years since Serena Williams held up a Grand Slam trophy in victory.

Prior to the start of the French Open, Deadspin’s Julie DiCaro and Jane McManus sat down with tennis icon Martina…

After postponing the French Open in March due to coronavirus, the red clay is ready for competitors. The Open starts…

While tennis will always be regarded as an upper-echelon pursuit, full of soft applause and a pastoral attitude as…

As a rube who has only ever covered one tennis tournament—the U.S. Open (once in 2017 and once this year)—I was…

Last year, in the first major final of his life, Dominic Thiem just seemed happy to be there. Flattened by a Rafael…

“If you want to do or achieve something on the clay, inevitably, at some stage, you will go through Rafa,” Roger…

Amanda Anisimova has a good backhand, so good as to foreclose any technical critique from the peanut gallery. She’s…

Today at the French Open, No. 7 seed Sloane Stephens lost her quarterfinal match. She went to press after, only to…

Forget the semifinals, the finals, or the shiny trophy ceremonies. The sweetest spot of a tennis major is the first…

After being, uh, unsettled by Serena Williams’s “catsuit” at the 2018 French Open, French Tennis Federation…

One day, perhaps, female athletes will be able to compete without people scrutinizing their appearance and policing…

Rafael Nadal won the French Open on Sunday, and there’s little new to say that wasn’t already said after last year’s…

Simona Halep, by age 26—something like the physical prime in modern tennis—had it all, almost. There was still a…

If you missed the men’s French Open final yesterday, you missed three quick sets of Rafael Nadal being Rafael Nadal…

Dominic Thiem and Rafael Nadal will play each other in the French Open final on Sunday. Only one outcome has ever…

A year after she blew a one-set lead in the French Open final to allow unseeded Jeļena Ostapenko to claim victory on…

Tennis, particularly the men’s side, has fallen into a certain rhythm, and if you’re a certain kind of old-school…

Marco Cecchinato is 25 years old. Until this week, he had never won a match at a major—first-round losses in all…