“You cannot be serious,” John McEnroe frequently said in what became his iconic expression during a storied tennis career ...

Sorana Cirstea and Naomi Osaka had an icy handshake at the end of their Australian Open on Thursday. Osaka won the match 6-3, ...

Welcome back to the Monday Tennis Briefing, where The Athletic will explain the stories behind the stories from the past week ...

Iva Jovic’s rise through the ranks hasn’t come out of nowhere, but her strong start to 2026 has certainly added to the hype ...

First the roof was open, then it was closed. Even the players who benefited from the cooler temperatures weren't sure why the decision to close the roof on Rod Laver Arena came so late on a scorching ...

Nowhere was this more true than at Melbourne’s Kooyong Stadium, site of the least-grand of the Slams at the time, the Australian Open. By the early 70s, the sun was setting on that country’s 20-year ...