Roger Federer ushered in a golden era of men’s tennis during his glittering career. Armed with a one-handed backhand, the Swiss star became the first to break Pete Sampras’ record of 14 Grand Slam ...
The smash is a hugely important shot to have in tennis, with some players boasting better ability in that area than others. Much like a serve, the tricky skill requires a full, outstretched arm and ...
USTA Florida is reviving the historic Crandon Park Tennis Center in Key Biscayne, former home of the Miami Open from 1987–2018.
Advertisement “I have to, you know, look at what I achieved in the last nine days of practice when I arrived here,” Raducanu said of the match, which she said showed how much of a transition becoming ...
I remember the first tennis players that I was aware of were players like McEnroe and Connors and Lendl. I'm old. But quickly after that, Sampras and Agassi came into the world, a ...
Novak Djokovic, who is chasing another Indian Wells title, shared that his childhood tennis inspirations were Pete Sampras and Monica Seles. He praised Sampras’s powerful game and Seles’s early ...
It is easy to understand why both Sampras and Seles are Djokovic’s tennis inspirations. Sampras is a 14-time Grand Slam champion: a player widely considered to be the greatest of his generation and an ...
—Steffi and Venus are well-matched: speedy, leggy, a little haughty, wielding strong serves and harsh forehands that they hit late, and which rely on athleticism rather than sparkling technique.
There are greatest-ever matches, and then there are the rare matches when two of the greatest players of all time face each other. They’re rare because the only way to be remembered as a ...
The 20-year-old rising star has taken the tennis world by storm, quickly climbing the rankings. Now, he has his sights set on making a deep run at Indian Wells.
After completing the Career Grand Slam with victory at The Masters, Rory McIlroy turned to tennis great Roger Federer, whose advice about surpassing Pete Sampras’ record helped McIlroy rethink his ...
Jim Courier was for a period in the early 90s the standard bearer in men's tennis until Pete Sampras came along and knocked ...