Every great tennis player has a weakness, especially in their early years. Roger Federer’s single-handed backhand, a work of art, was vulnerable when the ball bounced high. Rafael Nadal exploited that ...

In a fun segment of ‘The Lift,’ Sabrina Ullman seeks to learn how to serve and return a tennis ball, guided by Mary Skorich. Mary has been playing tennis since the age of three, spending six years on ...

THE ALL ENGLAND CLUB, LONDON — Carlos Alcaraz has won almost everything there is to win in tennis, but he has spent most of 2025 going after one of the sport’s least desirable accolades: being labeled ...

Welcome back to the Monday Tennis Briefing, where The Athletic will explain the stories behind the stories from the past week on court. This week, a new tennis serve entered the canon, the first ...

COLLEGE PARK, Maryland—It’s Monday morning, just past 7:30 a.m. on a beautiful spring day in College Park, Maryland, roughly 30 miles southwest of Baltimore. Eleven adults are spread across Court 23 ...

When it comes to racquet sports, none come closer to tennis and badminton in terms of popularity. Racquet sports require great speed and agility. To play well one needs to have good hand-eye ...

New York Junior Tennis & Learning is the largest youth tennis and education nonprofit in the country. Its flagship facility is the Cary Leeds Center for Tennis & Learning in Crotona Park. The center ...

Tennis Channel 2’s “Second Serve” show provides unique analysis of the game that you won’t find anywhere else. Live match reactions, entertaining stories being told, and even demonstrations from the ...

Tennis royalty visits the National Junior Tennis Learning of Trenton (NJTLT) 30th Annual Gala on Sunday, Sept. 22. Kim Clijsters, a former WTA World No.1 in both singles and doubles, attends following ...

I’m standing on the deuce side of the tennis court, getting ready to serve in a doubles match. As my partner stares ahead, the two women on the other side of the net look at me—and I just want to die.