Most fans will have at least one moment during the season when they need to figure out how the tennis rankings actually work. A big one...
Opaque communication. Lengthy deliberation. A bewildering outcome. Tennis, welcome to VAR: the source of existential angst, frustration, and rage across the English Premier League. This may...
This story has been updated to reflect news of Forlan’s professional tennis debut at the Uruguay Open in November 2024. Diego Forlan, the former Uruguay, Manchester...
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, the Six...
This story has been updated upon Aryna Sabalenka becoming world No. 1 in the WTA rankings on October 21. The trajectory of Aryna Sabalenka’s season changed...
The tennis world awoke to a surprise on Monday, with Aryna Sabalenka replacing Iga Swiatek as No. 1 in the WTA rankings. Sabalenka, who has won...
This story has been updated to reflect the retirements of Andy Murray and Rafael Nadal. “There’s no wrong, only right,” Roger Federer says. He is speaking...
One by one, they pull up at the St Regis Hotel in Riyadh. Jannik Sinner, Carlos Alcaraz, Rafael Nadal, Daniil Medvedev and Holger Rune have arrived —...
Almost two decades after the last time it happened, Novak Djokovic finds himself occupying a space in men’s tennis with which he is all too familiar....
World No. 1 Jannik Sinner beat Novak Djokovic in straight sets Sunday to win the Shanghai Masters. Sinner moved 4-0 up in the first-set tiebreak before...
The cold war between tennis players and the sport’s integrity authority grew several degrees hotter this week, as the leading but nascent organizing body for tennis...
In this tennis events calendar we start by taking a look at the dates of the four grand slams in 2025 – plus some of the...