Carlos Alcaraz. Alcaraz is clearing levels on the Becoming An All-Time Great Tennis Player video game in record time. He has mastered hard courts, he's excellent on clay, he beat Djokovic on the first try, and he reached No. 1 in the ATP rankings as a teenager. He's otherworldly. Re...
Acknowledging that there are also surprises -- and that tennis' brief offseason is the perfect time for "Here's where [player] overcomes injuries and surges again" optimism -- here are our predictions for the top 10 American men and women, ranked by their 2024 ...
"The Davis Cup, the tournament in Rome, it felt like almost a first time."<br><br>Britain also established a 2-0 advantage over Finland in Manchester, England, in Group D thanks to wins by <a href="https://www.espn.com/tennis/player/_/id/901/dan...
it seemed as if no one would be able to stop him on clay. But he uncharacteristically looked his age in his round of 32 match in Rome and fell to Fabian Marozsan -- a virtual unknown playing in the first ATP main draw of his career -- in straight sets. ...
" he says. His eyes scan the corners of the room as he considers how far he wants to take his point."Let's say I go five possessions without touching the ball, six possessions without touching the ball, I could force the next four, right? But if we already forced four shots, now ...
— US Open Tennis (@usopen)August 30, 2023 Then in the third-set tiebreak of a tight semifinal against Keys, Sabalenka dropped her racket and clutched her face with her hands after earning her seventh point of the tiebreak. That score would have won her the first- or second-set...
"I have to figure out what she does. She's had a great two weeks here; she's had some great results, playing some really good tennis. I know that I'm also playing well. I'm just going to enjoy myself today, and then tomorrow I'm going to prepare for Saturday." ...