Page 23 - Tennis

Tennis partners

What tennis offers is an escape, a retreat from the world, a forgetting. And what about this world, at this time, is worth remembering?

US Open 2019: Sumit Nagal takes a set from Roger Federer before exiting

Only Somdev Devvarman, Yuki Bhambri and Saketh Myneni have managed to win a set in a Grand Slam main draw before Nagal, in the last two decades

US Open 2019: Sumit Nagal goes down fighting as Federer wins in 4 sets

Nagal won the first set and managed to make Federer sweat for his win

Why the G.O.A.T. question in men's tennis may be settled very soon

Dhruv Munjal on why Novak Djokovic may yet win that highly contested title

Another Grand Slam with old storylines: Can Wimbledon throw up a surprise?

Why there is no looking beyond the 'Big Three' ahead of Wimbledon

Disadvantage tennis

The 1920s of tennis is sometimes seen as the age of Bill Tilden though, except in the US National Championships, he had not been a mind-blowing success anywhere else

Indoors, who is the greatest men's tennis player?

Let's call him the GOATI, which sounds vaguely Swiss and thus brings to mind Roger Federer, not a bad candidate as it turns out

A second serve as big as the first

Jack Sock is one of the players who has started employing a huge second serve

In this sports gender gap, men fall short

Male athletes are denied the recognition of a full life off the playing field

Time out?

The next generation of tennis champions is hard to spot