The Ballad of Wuhan
It was a city of over eight million people. It was a city without a tennis tradition. It was the city of Li Na. [...]
Li Na
Follow Up Friday: Zài jiàn Na
A weekly roundup of the most talked-about stories in tennis [...]
From Romania, “With Pleasure:” Simona Halep Shines in Paris
Embed from Getty Images Think back to ten days ago, to the start of the season’s second Slam. The red clay was fresh and neatly swept. The women’s draw was [...]
Bethanie Mattek-Sands: Unwritten
Embed from Getty Images One of my earliest tennis-related memories involves me truncating a fifth-grade journal entry to watch a night match during the 2002 US Open. At the [...]
WTA Championships: The Fifth Slam
Embed from Getty Images The idea of the “Fifth Slam” gets thrown around a lot in tennis circles. Perhaps constricted by the feeling that only Grand Slam tournaments [...]
The Tennis Island 