In GraphsIn tennis, a strong serve provides a decisive advantage – even at the French Open, where the court's clay surface typically dampens the power of first serves. His first serves were clocked at ...

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 ...

The Czech Republic's Marketa Vondrousova, seeded 12th, became the highest-ranked woman to be eliminated at this year's U.S. Open when she lost 6-1 6-2 to Belarusian Aliaksandra Sasnovich in the second ...

There is no question who are the two best male tennis players in the world right now. On the basis of Sunday's US Open final, there's little debate about who is No. 1. Carlos Alcaraz defeated Jannik ...

Encinitas writer Mike Yorkey has co-authored the new book “Second Serve: My Fall from Grace and Road to Reconciliation” with Roscoe Tanner, the former professional tennis player who was once one of ...

Serena Williams battled her way through to a 6-2 6-4 victory over Russia's Margarita Gasparyan in the second round of the U.S. Open on Thursday, as she continued her bid for a record-equaling 24th ...