Saturday in Beijing meant a lot of upsets on the women's side. All the results here, plus Sunday's sked - led by Coco Gauff vs. Leylah Fernandez at about 1 a.m. EDT. opencourt.ca/2025/09/27/w...

If you love tennis, follow Steph @opencourt.bsky.social. You read about the trenches. How hard it is. And how there are a lot of decent people out there.

Spanish-Canadian Steven Diez, Davis Cup champion with Canada in 2022 and a dedicated tennis foot soldier for more than 17 years, has retired – and already has a new gig! Read all about it here: opencourt.ca/2025/09/27/c...

First up for Victoria Mboko in Beijing - her first match since the US Open – will be Anastasia Potapova. The two met not long ago - opener at the Citi Open in D.C. just. before Montreal. youtu.be/TQKmBz32Afc?...

The updated ATP Tour rankings are official Monday. But because of the Tuesday finals in China, they've been released Tuesday. Here's a review, hot off the Open Court presses! opencourt.ca/2025/09/23/a...

Get the Beijing WTA 1000 draws for the Canadian women, the Tokyo draws for the men – and all the other #CanucksThisWeek – right here: opencourt.ca/2025/09/19/c...

HAPPY TO SHARE (in the best LinkedIn vernacular) that we can present a comprehensive Monday WTA rankings update on Sunday. Sunday AFTERNOON. Dig in (and click on an ad!) opencourt.ca/2025/09/21/w...

If you thought Félix Auger-Aliassime was a loyal guy when it comes to his team, check out the groomsmen at his wedding. (If I wanted to feel old today - this "then and now" comparison did the trick! 🤣) opencourt.ca/2025/09/21/f...

Update: It was pretty great.

They grow up SO FAST!! Félix Auger-Aliassime and Denis Shapovalov, juniors just a hot minute ago, both say their "I do"s. And get some out-of-the-bubble PR, too. opencourt.ca/2025/09/19/s... (Shapo pic: Vogue Scandinavia)

Updated results on the #CanucksThisWeek beat, through Thursday. opencourt.ca/2025/09/13/c...

A quick rankings update for today on the ATP Tour side, in a week with Davis Cup and no ATP events, it's in large part Challenger moves. And Stan. opencourt.ca/2025/09/14/a...

This week's #CanucksThisWeek roster - updated through Monday. opencourt.ca/2025/09/13/c...

If you missed this last night, I've added audio of Jovic's post-victory press conference in Guajalajara.

Four teens have won WTA Tour titles this year. Two of them won them ... today. Meet Iva Jovic and Tiantsoa Sarah Rakotomanga Rajaonah. opencourt.ca/2025/09/14/t...

The top guns were not in action, which meant it was carpe diem time for the lower-ranked players with plenty at stake. Two teens seized the day. The full and updated WTA Tour rankings for Monday. On Sunday! opencourt.ca/2025/09/14/w...

CUTE PIC TIME!!!!!! Two of the teens who've won WTA titles this season meet in the third round of the juniors at the US Open in 2022. Victoria Mboko and Iva Jovic. (Can you guess, without cheating, who won?)

This week's #CanucksThisWeek roster a bit perturbed by the Davis and BJK Cup schedules. But still plenty of Canadian content to go around. Follow it all week, right here: opencourt.ca/2025/09/13/c...

The first of a series of pieces we'll do on the Canadians' journey at the US Open, and where they go next, is timely. Calgary's Cleeve Harper made his Slam debut in New York - and he's scheduled for his Davis Cup debut Saturday. Meet him here: opencourt.ca/2025/09/12/u...

This one is about to get under way. Thoughts from the three top Canadians, and other deets as this Davis Cup tie goes on behind closed doors.

Aussie Davis Cup captain Lleyton Hewitt shoves a drug-testing official against the wall, gets a ... two-week suspension. But not until Davis Cup is over. Details here: opencourt.ca/2025/09/10/a...

It's been a tough sophomore season for Canadian Marina Stakusic. But in Mexico, a happy place in the past, she came back from a 3-6, 1-5 deficit to win her first-round match in Guadalajara. Read all about it here: opencourt.ca/2025/09/09/m...

Just a few days before the Davis Cup tie between Canada and Israel is to be held in Halifax, Tennis Canada announces it will be held behind closed doors, without fans. opencourt.ca/2025/09/09/c... (Photo: Bob Roberts/National Post)

While we were searching for Santillan pics, we did come across this flashback video of US Open quarterfinalist foes Félix Auger-Aliassime and Alex de Minaur hitting at Wimbledon, way back in 2019. FAA just 18 at the time; made the third round then lost a shocker to Humbert. youtu.be/Cr1OKB9L8os

It's not huge headline news or anything. But we did notice that another player has changed nationalities – again: Akira Santillan has gone from Aussie to Japanese to Aussie and now ... back to Japanese. opencourt.ca/2025/09/09/n...

It's a Davis Cup week. But it's also a super-busy week across the Canadian tennis planet and some opportunities at a WTA 500 in Mexico. Here's this week's roster on the #CanucksThisWeek beat. opencourt.ca/2025/09/08/c...

And not to be left behind, the updated ATP Tour rankings for Monday have a new man at the top. And a resurgent Felix Auger-Aliassime. ALL HERE! (Pls click on an ad if you're browsing). opencourt.ca/2025/09/08/a...

A post-Slam rankings report is always filled with big rises and falls. And Monday's WTA Tour updated list is no exception with a lot of well-known names on the come-up, too. It's all here! opencourt.ca/2025/09/08/w...

This has gone well under the radar but the WTA has two tournaments this week – one of them a 500 that deserves better, the other the return of WTA tennis to Brazil for the first time in 25 years. Skeds here: opencourt.ca/2025/09/07/w...

Other than the massive inconvenience to people who'd been working 24/7 on site for 3 wls, AND the players, AND fans who paid HUGE bucks only to have to stand forever to get in, the bloviator-in-chief's visit to the US Open went well! At least he didn't steal the trophy. opencourt.ca/2025/09/07/u...

For the 2nd time in 3 years, Gaby Dabrowski and Erin Routliffe are US Open champions. In between, was a journey. Here's our piece for the Canadian Press. opencourt.ca/2025/09/06/d...

Who took it, though. That's be nice to know.

Want the ULTIMATE flashback? Here are Rennae Stubbs and Gaby Dabrowski at the US Open in 2008, when Dabrowski was a junior. And just now, on Arthur Ashe in the women's doubles final, after the first set – 17 years later.

As the Cana-Kiwis, Gabriela Dabrowski and Erin Routliffe, warm up for their US Open women's doubles final - here's the piece I wrote yesterday previewing it and outlining the rocky road of the last year and a half. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/health/canad...

My spies telling me Farty McFuckFace, the convicted orange felon, is planning a visit here to the US Open on Sunday. Hopefully he doesn't walk off with the trophy.

For the first time in four years Félix Augre-Aliassime is back in a Slam Final Four – at the US Open. Read our Canadian Press piece and some extras, right here. opencourt.ca/2025/09/03/f...

Not too bad, from earlier today at Félix Auger-Alassime's QF win.

Updated roster on this week's #CanucksThisWeek beat. with those still alive iin New York rolled over and everyone else scattered around the tennis universe back at it.

Big Félix Auger-Aliassime post here - 1) read our Canadian Press piece on his win over Rublev at the US Open, and flashback (with FAA's help) to the first time he ever played QF opponent Alex de Minaur. With some VINTAGE video, too. Enjoy (and click on an ad!) opencourt.ca/2025/09/01/a...

A lot of the focus has been on the Leylah Fernandez-Venus doubles pairing. But you know who is also in the third round of doubles at the US Open? Yup, the Cana-Kiwis - Dabrowski and Routliffe. And they've won this thing before. Everyone on deck for Monday. opencourt.ca/2025/08/31/f...

Did you know? There's a *queue* at the US Open. This one snaking all the way back halfway around Arthur Ashe to get into the upper deck of Louis Armstrong Stadium. Tonight, it's especially bonkers. Watch here! opencourt.ca/2025/08/31/a...

First thing at 11:30 am on Arthur Ashe is Félix Auger-Aliassime time, on Labour Monday at the US Open. Men's sked here: opencourt.ca/2025/08/31/u...

First thing at 11:30 am on Arthur Ashe is Félix Auger-Aliassime time, on Labour Monday at the US Open. Men's sked here: opencourt.ca/2025/08/31/u...

Saturday night's impressive upset over No. 3 seed Alexander Zverev was the statement win Félix Auger-Aliassime was looking for – for himself, and to show everyone he's not going anywhere. Great stuff from him here: opencourt.ca/2025/08/31/f...

Not too many guys having more fun at the US Open the last few days than four dudes from Abitibi-Témiscamingue who are BIGLY supporting their fellow Canuckians. Meet them here: opencourt.ca/2025/08/30/f...

Past 8 p.m. last night, while FAA was battling Safiullin on the next court, Taylor Fritz was quietly just working on his serve ahead of this night match v Kym tonight.

After a miraculous comeback v Tauson in the first round, not to be for popular favorite in NY Alexandra Eala. Court was packed. Goes down to Cristina Bucsa, who always shows up and rarely beats herself. (Bucsa practiced with Canadian lefty Fernandez y'day to get ready).

Surprisingly few people on hand Monday to watch Iga Swiatek practice - which is a missed opportunity since everything she does in her famously intense practice sessions can serve as a model to anyone who plays at any level. Here's a look. opencourt.ca/2025/08/27/u...

Surprisingly few people on hand Monday to watch Iga Swiatek practice - which is a missed opportunity since everything she does in her famously intense practice sessions can serve as a model to anyone who plays at any level. Here's a look. opencourt.ca/2025/08/27/u...

I've been struck, during the matches involving Canadians so far, how relatively few countrymen and women are here at the US Open this year compared to "normal".