Sinner and Alcaraz's 2025 rivalry was defined by how they responded to losses — of big titles, and to each other.

Toss ball, hit ball. That’s the basics of the serve. And when players want to ramp up the mph on their delivery, their focus is often on smacking the ball that much harder. However, if you’re looking ...

Some tennis pros love the job for reasons beyond the pure joy of winning. It may be the independence of the globetrotting life. The pure adrenalin rush of competition. The fame. The money. . . The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At my 197th and final court, Veterans Park in Bell Gardens, I noticed a jacaranda tree with a few blue-purple flowers billowing in the early December midafternoon breeze. I set up a can of balls on ...