Henin makes the distinctions between baseliner, all-courter, aggressive baseliner, attacker and counterpuncher ... but that's partly because tennis isn't a performance, it's an athletic contest ...

Every tennis player wants to close out matches ... looping forehand. She’s a counterpuncher by nature—think Caroline Wozniacki or Lleyton Hewitt—with good returns and passing shots, but ...

That was Lori McNeil. James Blake has a story. It’s around 1990, and he’s trying to play in a regional under-12 tennis tournament in central Connecticut. He doesn’t have a ranking and there ...

Since turning pro in 2003, Novak Djokovic has piled up a record 24 Grand Slam singles titles, staking his claim as tennis’ greatest of all time. But no matter how many titles he won, he never ...

The game of tennis traces its roots back to medieval France, and although history cannot exactly pinpoint the origin of tennis' scoring system, the modern version of tennis scoring was finalized in ...

Perhaps no pairing of tennis player and major title felt as inevitable as Aryna Sabalenka and the U.S. Open. This was one of the hardest-hitting players in the sport’s history, a smiley enforcer with ...

Venue: USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, New York ... Stephens adopts a rather defensive style of play and is a ...

Tennis requires a huge range of movement: running backward, lunging, sidestepping, and even sliding (if you’re a Francesca Schiavone wannabe), which is why running shoes and other nonspecific ...

Playing tennis can lead to stronger bones, greater range of motion, increased cognitive function, and greater longevity than with any other sport. A tennis player serving during a match on a clay ...

A full two years ahead of the passage of Title IX in the United States, they envisioned a better future for women's tennis. In September 1970, the birth of women's professional tennis was launched ...

Learn more about it. Sure, all fuzzy yellow tennis balls may look the same at a glance, but you may be surprised at how much a ball’s composition can affect your gameplay. You need the right ...

With Shang playing the best tennis of his career ... his record this season is very modest but he is a capable counterpuncher ...