The announcement of a Rafanole exhibition in Saudi Arabia. Will the show go on?
A journalist, a tennis player and the president of the United States walk into a bar….
No, it’s not the setup for a joke. Indeed, it’s no laughing matter.
Tennis stars Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic – the No. 1- and No. 2-ranked players on the men’s tour – find themselves in the midst of an international crisis not of their making….
Read MoreThe Blues Brothers: Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic bow as a doubles team at the Laver Cup. Photograph by Clive Brunskill for Getty Images North America
“You’re only as good as your opponent makes you play,” Martina Navratilova observes in “Strokes of Genius.” It’s a documentary about Rafael Nadal’s hard-fought triumph over Roger Federer in the 2008 Wimbledon final, which Jon Wertheim describes in his book of the same name as the greatest tennis match to date….
Read MoreChristie’s will be auctioning off an historic Novak Djokovic racket, along with one of his watches, Thursday, Sept. 20.
Now you can swing a racket like a US Open champion — not to mention tell time like one. On Thursday, Sept. 20, Christie’s will conduct an online-only auction of the Head racket US Open men’s singles champion Novak Djokovic used to defeat Roger Federer in the Open tune-up, Cincinnati's Western & Southern Open.
Read MoreBanner for Novak Djokovic at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center proclaiming his 2015 US Open championship. This year’s winner, Djokovic found himself caught up in the Serena Williams-Carlos Ramos controversy at the Open, like everyone else. Photograph by the author.
My photograph of the facade of the new Louis Armstrong Stadium, which has been a big hit with fans.
Imagine a room with banks upon banks of cubicles, each of which contains a monitor, a laptop and a headset.
No, it’s not a telemarketing business but part of the Media Center at the US Open, which ends Sunday, Sept. 9 with the men’s final. While fans have been raving about the new “Louie,” as in the Louis Armstrong Stadium, or taking in the action at Arthur Ashe or the Grandstand or one of the other courts, members of the press have been hard at work at their designated cubicles, banging out stories for publications and media websites all over the world….
Read More: Hot, hot, hot Stefanos Tsitsipas – who became the youngest man to beat four top 10 players in a row earlier this summer at the Canadian Open – lost to the heat and Daniil Medvedev Wednesday at the US Open. Photograph by Getty Images.
The US Open – the last of the Grand Slam tournaments, celebrating its golden jubilee this season – is one of sports’ greatest events and one of its most challenging.
For fans, that is due in part to the difficulty in getting into the USTA Billie Jean King Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens. Then once inside, members of the New York City Police Department, along with the Open’s security and ushers, have a poor sense of what’s where. (We ourselves were dropped off on Northern Boulevard, which we surmised correctly would be the shortest walk to the Media Center.)
So unless you have the directional skills of a Lewis and Clark, it can be tough going. Equally daunting for fans but especially the players this year has been the soaring heat and humidity….
Read MoreThe trophies from the US Open's men's and women's singles championships gleam against the backdrop of the Brooklyn Bridge and Lower Manhattan. Tim Camuso/USTA
