MELBOURNE – After some off-season excitement and an early exit in Auckland, Serena Williams gets to work in Melbourne Wednesday.
Americans
Yahoo!: Missing faces make the US tennis team a smorgasbord
RIO DE JANEIRO – There were a lot of guys who didn’t want to be here.
Guardian: An unlikely American quarter-finalist in Paris
PARIS – Only Montreal’s Aleksandra Wozniak was further down the entry list than Shelby Rogers when the French Open began.
Tennis Birthdays: March 29, 2016
A solid tennis birthday batch, to which we’ll add Open Court’s brother – who’s lookin’ good.
Tennis Birthdays – Feb. 23, 2016
A sister, a Czech, and a Madagascarian.
Tennis Birthdays: Feb. 22, 2016
Some fabulous people (including Open Court’s Dad).
Tennis Birthdays – Feb. 18, 2016
From Russia, to Italy, to Germany, to Croatia.
Tennis Birthdays – Feb. 17, 2016
Keys now of age.
Tennis Birthdays – Feb. 12, 2016
A solid birthday day today, from France, Spain, Poland and the U.S.
Tennis Birthdays: Feb. 7, 2016
A Belgian, and a Colombian celebrate.
Tennis Birthdays – Jan. 8, 2016
Two players born on exactly the same date, but with radically different lives.
Tennis Birthdays: Jan. 4, 2016
An accomplished Frenchman, and a Grand Slam-winning doubles player celebrate.