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Thoughts on tennis, Title IX, and pride after an emotional Wimbledon weekend.

Of all the strange events that took place during the first week of Wimbledon - right down to the theft of Rufus the hawk - the most unbelievable was Yaroslava Shvedova's flawless set against Sara Errani, the French Open finalist, on Saturday. The so-...

Even if Wimbledon, as Brian Phillips proved, weren't a dream inside of a big skull, then Lukas Rosol would still be the man of my dreams, or the man in my dreams, or whatever preposition dream grammar requires. I watched his match against Rafael Nada...

At Wimbledon, Venus Williams and Kim Clijsters negotiate the ends of their historic careers.

Can he disrupt tennis's stasis?

Despite its place in sports lore, every bit of Wimbledon is under constant renovation.

When Andy Roddick turned pro in 2000, he reminded me of my tennis camp instructors — the guys who looked better under baseball caps and wore logos a little too large, the guys who smiled a little too broadly at the older female campers, who, in...

Ana Ivanovic and the state of women's tennis.