For my 34th birthday, in 2015, I received two tickets to the men’s quarterfinal of the French Open. I’m a Rafael Nadal loyalist, and I hoped to cheer for the King of Clay. I ended up seeing the ...

Behold my requiem for the one-handed backhand: threatened but not quite extinct, clinging to relevance like the used bookstore, the standard transmission, and the overly-nostalgic newspaper sports ...

To hit a great two-handed backhand, says Rick Macci, you have to “feel a pull in your front shoulder.” Macci, who has coached Andy Roddick and the Williams sisters, asks his students to turn until the ...

There’s one thing that’s conspicuously missing from a men’s Masters event. That would be women. For someone who’s used to watching and working dual-gender tournaments, the order of play in Toronto ...