Novak Djokovic will return to competitive tennis at the Shanghai Masters next month. Djokovic has not played a match since losing the U.S. Open semifinal to Carlos Alcaraz three weeks ago. More from @cdeccleshare.bsky.social ⤵️

At the Laver Cup, it became apparent that Carlos Alcaraz has the world at his feet. Off the court, his silver hair was the main topic of discussion. On the court, he was playing shots that left Roger Federer blown away by their absurdity. ✍️ @mattfutterman.bsky.social 🔗 bit.ly/3KgYtW3

At the Laver Cup this week, Roger Federer has likely spent more time courtside watching matches than he has anywhere else. What is it like to watch tennis with him? @mattfutterman.bsky.social finds out ⤵️ 🔗 bit.ly/48teG4y

The U.S. Open's atmosphere is irregular from most Tennis tournaments. Some players thrive, others... are not a fan. @cdeccleshare.bsky.social explains why.

Why can Carlos Alcaraz and tennis' other elite players struggle in doubles? Because they're playing an entirely different sport, @mattfutterman.bsky.social explains ⬇️

Jelena Ostapenko appeared to tell Taylor Townsend she has ‘no education’ immediately after her U.S. Open second-round defeat, in a row about a net cord. It was not the first heated handshake in tennis. @cdeccleshare.bsky.social explains why the ritual can become so intense. 🔗 bit.ly/4mzf5Xl

In April of 1993, Monica Seles and Steffi Graf were dueling for supremacy at the top of women’s tennis. Their titles and their rivalry catapulted them into stardom — and danger. 📝 @cdeccleshare.bsky.social 🔗 theathletic.com/6456273/?sou...

Victoria Mboko was ranked 350th at the end of last year and played Challenger tournaments through the first four months of 2025. Today, she completed a miracle comeback to beat Naomi Osaka and win the Canadian Open championship, her first WTA Tour tournament victory.

Clara Tauson dedicated her second WTA 1,000 semifinal of her career to her late grandfather, revealing that he had passed away during her run at the Canadian Open. “Two days ago, my grandfather unfortunately passed away, so I really wanted to win for him today,” she said after beating Madison Keys.

Soccer has its “new manager bounce.” Does tennis? Naomi Osaka may think so. Tomasz Wiktorowski has joined Osaka for a trial period in Canada, and so far, the bounce is bouncing - she is into the quarterfinals of a WTA 1,000 event for the first time since January 2024. @mattfutterman.bsky.social

Felipe Massa, Kevin Magnussen and Novak Djokovic have become investors of Ligue 2 club Le Mans FC through a Brazilian investment firm, the French club’s president announced on Friday. www.nytimes.com/athletic/653...

Any match between Corentin Moutet & Daniil Medvedev is likely to involve some cat-and-mouse, some junk balls, some improbably long points and some scrappy net dancing. So it was only right that during the quarterfinals of the D.C. Open in Washington, their match point contained all of the above.

World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka has withdrawn from the WTA 1,000 Canadian Open, which begins July 27 in Montreal. Sabalenka cited fatigue following her semifinal run at Wimbledon as her reason for pulling out of the tournament, which is one rung below the Grand Slams.

British tennis player Tara Moore has been handed a four-year anti-doping sanction despite previously being cleared of any wrongdoing. Moore was provisionally suspended after testing positive for the anabolic steroids boldenone and nandrolone in 2022. 🔗 www.nytimes.com/athletic/649...

A bit like Nadal finally recording the first "away" win in the Federer-Nadal rivalry at Wimbledon 2008, Sinner taking a first non-hard slam tilted the Alcaraz rivalry firmly in his favour Especially as it ended Alcaraz's five in a row streak against him. www.nytimes.com/athletic/649...

Jannik Sinner suffered the ultimate heartbreak of having three championship points and not winning the French Open. Then today, he blew a 4-2 lead to Carlos Alcaraz to lose the first set. But Sinner's response finally gave him the redemption he needed.

Jannik Sinner’s streak of five successive defeats vs. Carlos Alcaraz came to an end & culminated in his first Wimbledon title, his fourth Grand Slam title. What does this mean for their rivalry? Analysis from SW19 from @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @mattfutterman.bsky.social

Jannik Sinner beats Carlos Alcaraz 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 to win his first Wimbledon title.

Jannik Sinner is a set away from becoming Wimbledon champion. He leads defending champion Carlos Alcaraz by two sets to one. Follow here: bit.ly/3GIOUxI

Second set: Jannik Sinner ✅ The world number one responds and it's level in the men's Wimbledon final. Will this match go the distance? Follow here: bit.ly/3GIOUxI

First set: Carlos Alcaraz ✅ And what a shot to win it! 🔥

Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner walk out onto Centre Court to deafening cheers. Both wave to the crowd once before heading to their chairs and getting ready for business. Jannik Sinner wins the toss and, as expected, will receive first. Follow the men's Wimbledon final here: bit.ly/3GIOUxI

Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz will walk onto Centre Court for the Wimbledon final Sunday, five weeks after their French Open final classic. They're creating a cycle — a duopoly. And the more finals they play, the harder it gets for those in the tier below to reach them: http://dlvr.it/TLv1ZC

▪️ What do Grand Slam nerves look like? ▪️ How did Swiatek dominate Anisimova’s strength? ▪️ What does this mean for Swiatek’s legacy? ▪️ Does today prove a format change is needed? @mattfutterman.bsky.social and @cdeccleshare.bsky.social analyze the Wimbledon final ⤵️ 🔗 theathletic.com/6489699/?sou...

Iga Swiatek wins her first Wimbledon title... without dropping a game in the final. She beats Amanda Anisimova 6-0, 6-0 in just 57 minutes. It is the first double bagel in a women's Grand Slam final since Steffi Graf's win at the 1988 French Open. bit.ly/4lR0FBh

Iga Swiatek is a set away from her maiden Wimbledon title. The five-time Grand Slam winner takes the first set in the final against Amanda Anisimova 6-0 ... in just 25 minutes.

Julian Cash and Lloyd Glasspool won the Wimbledon men’s doubles final, making them the first all-British team to win the event since Pat Hughes and Raymond Tuckey in 1936. They dispatched Rinky Hijikata and David Pel in straight sets, 6-2 7-6.

We will have a new winner of the women's singles title at Wimbledon today as Amanda Anisimova battles five-time major champion Iga Swiatek. Who are you backing? 🇺🇸 Anisimova 🇵🇱 Swiatek Follow all the build-up and action from Centre Court with our reporters at SW19 here... ⤵️

It’s 20 years since Venus Williams beat Lindsay Davenport in one of the most dramatic ever women’s finals. But best of three means women’s matches can never reach the same mythological levels of the greatest men’s ones. Surely it’s time they were equal? www.nytimes.com/athletic/648...

Jannik Sinner sets up Wimbledon final against Carlos Alcaraz by dispatching Novak Djokovic 6-3, 6-3, 6-4. @mattfutterman.bsky.social

Carlos Alcaraz makes the Wimbledon final for the third year in a row. The 2023 and 2024 champion sees off U.S. number one Taylor Fritz in four sets (6-4, 5-7, 6-3, 7-6) to take a step closer to making it three championships in a row. He is yet to lose a Grand Slam final...

Jannik Sinner has flipped his head-to-head record against Novak Djokovic from 0-3 to 5-4. How that happened is a story of one man fighting an inevitably losing battle against aging, the one truly undefeated foe, and of another surging into his prime. @mattfutterman.bsky.social | bit.ly/3IlIdlS

Riccardo Piatti is the only person to have coached both Jannik Sinner and Novak Djokovic, always suspecting that one day they would both be competing in matches like the Wimbledon semifinal against one another. 📝 @cdeccleshare.bsky.social 🔗 theathletic.com/6486451/?sou...

Iga Swiatek is not messing around. Her controlled, clinical aggression on both serve and return that has defined her tennis was on full display. As a result, she's moving into her first Wimbledon final to set up a meeting with Amanda Anisimova. 📝 @cdeccleshare.bsky.social 🔗 bit.ly/40e3wfc

Amanda Anisimova has arrived. The former teen sensation, who spent several years in the tennis wilderness following the sudden death of her father and coach when she was 17, upset Aryna Sabalenka 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 under a broiling sun on Centre Court to make her first Grand Slam final at Wimbledon.

The Wimbledon semi-final between Aryna Sabalenka & American Amanda Anisimova was halted by two stoppages in the first set due to spectators being taken ill in the stands. Sabalenka responded by bringing a bottle of water and an ice pack to the section of the crowd where the spectator was sitting.

🎾 Aryna Sabalenka vs. Amanda Anisimova 🎾 Belinda Bencic vs. Iga Swiatek It's semifinal day in the women's singles at Wimbledon. Follow all the action with us: bit.ly/44T30Wt

Morgan Riddle used to sit on Wimbledon's “Henman Hill" and watch tennis in peace. Now she can’t take a step at the All England Club without being recognized. Taylor Fritz is her boyfriend; Riddle is a tennis phenomenon all of her own — an avatar of its cultural takeover. @caoimhesport.bsky.social

Ben Shelton's Wimbledon run is over. Jannik Sinner knocked the American out in the quarterfinal stage in straight sets, winning 7-6(2), 6-4, 6-4. More: www.nytimes.com/athletic/648...

Mirra Andreeva, the 18-year-old Russian, was determined to cast one of her spells over Wimbledon and turn the All England Club into another of her party spaces. Belinda Bencic shut it down. @mattfutterman.bsky.social on how the Swiss charged into her first Wimbledon semifinal. 🔗 bit.ly/4lIHrxs

Iga Swiatek extended the best grass-court form of her career by beating No. 19 seed Liudmila Samsonova 6-2, 7-5 Wednesday, to reach the Wimbledon semifinals for the first time. More from @cdeccleshare.bsky.social ⬇️ 🔗 www.nytimes.com/athletic/648...

Fabio Fognini has announced that he has retired from tennis, after a “perfect” farewell in the first-round of Wimbledon against Carlos Alcaraz. 🔗 www.nytimes.com/athletic/648...

Greatness recognizes greatness 🤝 Billie Jean King shares a moment with Novak Djokovic ahead of the Serbian's Wimbledon quarterfinal match.

A quality serve is a really good thing to have at Wimbledon. But the ability to return those serves is what separates the good from the great. Hitting screaming winners and firing 145 mph serves will make far more highlight reels. It probably won’t win a Grand Slam. ✍️ @mattfutterman.bsky.social

Aryna Sabalenka, coming off the back of a devastating French Open final defeat, came through a monumental test to win 4-6, 6-2, 6-4 in one of the most satisfying results of her career to reach the Wimbledon semi-final.

Three years after letting a golden opportunity to make his first Wimbledon semifinal slip through his fingers, Taylor Fritz survived blisters on his troublesome feet and beat Karen Khachanov, 6-3, 6-4, 1-6, 7-6(4) to make the final four at the world’s most important tennis tournament.

Cameron Norrie is once again the last Brit standing at Wimbledon, and is again going under the radar. He will play two-time defending champion Carlos Alcaraz on Centre Court in what should, in theory, be a monumental occasion.

Some players had success against the greats by engaging in the dark arts. Robin Soderling rattled Rafael Nadal at Wimbledon in 2007 by mocking his slow play & habit of fiddling with his underwear. Two years later, he became the first man to beat Nadal at Roland Garros. @cdeccleshare.bsky.social

Ben Shelton reaches the quarter-finals at Wimbledon for the first time. The American overcame Lorenzo Sonego in four sets, including a third-set tiebreaker - the fourth 7-6 Shelton has been involved in during this championships. He has all won all four.

Mirra Andreeva becomes the first Russian woman to reach the singles quarter-finals at Wimbledon since the ban on players from the nation was lifted. She confidently beats American Emma Navarro in straight sets (6-2, 6-3) to reach the last eight at SW19 for the first time.