Jannik Sinner has officially withdrawn from the China Open, an ATP 500 event that the current ATP No. 1 won last year. He has missed every tournament since Wimbledon with a knee injury and has only played in one since th...
Alex Eala learned something about her second-round opponent at the 2026 Singapore Open, and that was that while Tatiana Prozorova was just starting to find her footing on the WTA Tour, she had the power in her groundstro...
Heading into the first-round match of the Singapore Open between Barbora Krejcikova and Anna-Lena Friedsam, one might assume that the Czech player would sweep through easily. After all, Krejcikova had won multiple single...
Alexander Zverev has had the most successful 2026 of any player on the ATP Tour. He entered this year with no Grand Slam wins and will leave with two major titles. That includes the US Open, where he managed to annoy man...
Newly crowned U.S. Open champion Elena Rybakina is also the newly crowned No. 1 player in the WTA rankings. Rybakina was assured of ending Aryna Sabalenka’s 99-week reign at No. 1 once she reached the U.S. Open semifinal...
Alexander Zverev might prove that the best ability is availability – at least when it comes to finishing 2026 as the ATP’s year-end No. 1 player. This was further proven by Zverev winning the U.S. Open in a Jannik Sinner...
Alexander Zverev has a good opportunity to ruin a good party at the end of the 2026 US Open. The German could steal the men's final from Ben Shelton and make sure there is no American men's champion for the first time si...
Tennis fans knew going into the 2026 US Open women's final between Elena Rybakina and Aryna Sabalenka that the match was likely going to be an elite example of the sport. The players didn't disappoint, and Rybakina won i...
Ben Shelton will take on Alexander Zverev in the men's US Open final on Sunday, September 12, and there is one question many tennis fans are asking: Can an American win in New York for the first time in decades? In essen...
Alexander Zverev should be feeling very little stress after finally winning his first major at the 2026 French Open. Should he win the US Open too, well, that's just gravy. He certainly wasn't going to let Karen Khachano...
The 2026 US Open final is set on the women's side. Fittingly, the two players who have had the most successful seasons will face off, even though they will soon change positions atop the rankings on the WTA Tour. Elena R...
The semifinals on the men's side of the 2026 US Open will take place on Friday, September 11, and an American man is guaranteed to make the final. That is because Frances Tiafoe and Ben Shelton will face one another in o...
The US Open is coming to a close this weekend, and what a tournament it has been. On the women's side, for instance, Zheng Qinwen has now been pushed out of the tournament, but during her run had back-to-back comebacks f...
On the WTA Tour, every two years recently, a player has won two majors. Iga Swiatek did it in 2022, and Aryna Sabalenka accomplished the feat in 2024. Mirra Andreeva had a chance to do it in 2026, but in the quietest way...
Of all the American hopefuls at the 2026 US Open, few likely thought it would be Alex Michelsen that stated the strongest claim to maybe win the title, becoming the first American man since Andy Roddick in 2003 to do so....
Aryna Sabalenka was facing an interesting quandary. While trying to claim her third straight US Open title, she was also likely to lose her ranking atop the WTA Tour. Should Elena Rybakina reach the semifinals -- and she...
Serena Williams has done more for tennis than nearly anyone should be expected to do. She grew the sport, especially in terms of minorities wanting to be involved. Tennis is the best sport on Earth, of course, but it can...
Elena Rybakina wanted to win her first US Open, of course, but she had so much more to reach for in New York than just her latest major win. The No. 1 ranking on the WTA tour was within reach, and she had never reached t...
Iga Swiatek knew going into her round-of-16 match against Zheng Qinwen at the 2026 US Open that the Chinese player was not going to give up easily. Zheng had reached the round only after winning three straight three-set ...
As a human being, Alex Eala is gracious and positively self-aware. She knows how popular she is, but she doesn't handle it with arrogance. If she could only make inroads at Grand Slam events, her fame would rise even mor...
At the beginning of the 2026 US Open match between Aryna Sabalenka and Taylor Townsend, neither player seemed to remember how to hold serve. Through four games, the first set was tied at 2-all, but neither player had hel...
Madison Keys couldn't have played any better than she did in the first set of her third-round 2026 US Open match against Zheng Qinwen. That is meant with no disrespect to Keys, mind you. Many players could play any bette...
As much as sports decision-makers might want to look away from the obvious inconsistency, betting has almost always been, and likely always will be, a part of the culture. The problem becomes when the money spent on game...
Let's be honest, right? Tennis fans might have been worried about the possibility that Carlos Alcaraz could repeat his 2025 US Open title in 2026 because he hadn't played since April due to a wrist injury. We also know t...
The second-round US Open match between Tommy Paul and Alexander Bublik was bound to be one of epic ebbs and flows. After all, the two players offered contrasting styles, and there was no guarantee which one would be bett...
