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 ...

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 ...

Former tennis player Juan Martin del Potro has recently come forward to share his exceptional take on building the perfect tennis player and named various top players, including himself. The Roland ...

If you’ve ever picked up a tennis racket and attempted to serve against an opponent, you’ll know just how hard a skill it is. It’s one thing to get the ball over the net and yet a whole other thing to ...

The 2025 Laver Cup just reached its thrilling conclusion. Tennis fans can thank Roger Federer for helping develop the international competition. Naturally, Federer was all over San Francisco this past ...

Eight years ago, Martina Navratilova summed up the problem with the one-handed backhand in today’s game: “It practically takes a genius to hit [one],” she said. The great Czech-American champion used ...

The ageless Roger Federer defies logic as his domination of tennis continues into his sporting dotage. The Swiss, who turns 37 in August, has managed the previously unthinkable: producing some of the ...