The advent of table tennis supposedly dates back to the late 1800s, when the wealthy Victorians in England created an indoor version of lawn tennis using items laying around the house to assemble a ...

The 2024 tennis season has rounded the final bend and it feels like we've arrived at the beginning of the end for the ATP Tour and WTA Tour this term. Elite men's players have a final chance to ...

Nick Kyrgios has revealed that he's desperate not to repeat the same mistake made by Andy Murray and Rafael Nadal when he eventually calls time on his playing career ...

Introduced in March 2022, T2 is delivering live ATP and WTA tennis each week to more than 100 million homes. With its own set of commentators and studio analysts, it presents the sport in a ...

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How do tennis rankings work? Tennis world rankings are calculated by the ATP, who award points based on a player's performance at particular tournaments. The further a player progresses in a ...

Footwork in tennis spans a wide range of movement: running backward, lunging, sidestepping, and even sliding (think Rafael Nadal at the French Open), which is why running shoes and other ...

The mantle of world No.1 in tennis is something every player aspires for but few ever achieve. When it comes to women's singles, Serena Williams dominated for years but younger players have ...

THE WTA STORY Billie Jean King and her group of eight other renegades were revolutionary by 1970s standards. A full two years ahead of the passage of Title IX in the United States, they envisioned a ...

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For more than 20 years, Rafael Nadal leaned into his reputation for authenticity. Roger Federer was the tennis politician, an artless beacon of neutrality. Novak Djokovic was fated to manage the ...