Browsing: Tennis tactics

Second-serve pressure at the Mubadala Citi DC Open begins with a sound every player hates: the dull thud of a…

Washington DC Open court coverage has already become the tournament’s hidden scoreboard. Ben Shelton felt it when qualifier Martin Damm…

At the Mubadala Citi DC Open, the returner’s most important decision happens before the server tosses the ball into Washington’s…

The ghosts haunting Alexander Zverev at Roland Garros do not look like Carlos Alcaraz or Jannik Sinner. They look like…

Djokovic’s net play begins with a sound he once forced from other men: rubber scraping dirt in panic. On Sunday…

How Sabalenka can exploit weak footwork on the Centre Court begins with sound. Not strategy. Not theory. Sound. That hard,…

The backhand corner still carries danger. Sabalenka’s backhand returns now carry the sound of a warning shot. A serve shoots…

Grass-court tennis has always sold itself as a server’s paradise, but Aryna Sabalenka’s backhand return flips the geometry of Centre…

If Roger Federer’s forehand was a clean silk snap and Rafael Nadal’s was a violent thud, Novak Djokovic’s topspin forehand…

When Elena Rybakina tosses the ball on Centre Court, the crowd braces for the radar gun to flash. Her serve…