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byNovak Djokovic’s stunning win over Roger Federer at Wimbledon Sunday proved John McEnroe’s adage that it’s not important to be the best, only to beat the best.
Novak Djokovic overcame an elbow injury and self-doubt to come all the way back to number one.
Celebrate 50 years of the US Open with the USTA’s fab new book.
Few have been better positioned to observe the milestones of tennis in the Open Era than longtime Katonah-based journalist Steve Flink, author of the indispensable “The Greatest Tennis Matches of All Time” (New Chapter Press) and a 2017 inductee into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
Many of the great sports anniversaries being celebrated this summer are the anniversaries of great rivalries
Brothers Kevin and Greg Anderson on the arts of playing and coaching tennis.
The new creative director of Judith Leiber talks handbags, balancing work and family and life with Tommy.
One is as American as his signature red, white and blue palette. The other is a sensual Spaniard whose muscular power game has catapulted…
He may be struggling on the court this year, but there’s nothing wrong with Rafael Nadal’s modeling game. The No. 8-ranked player in the…
“Few accessories evoke a life of leisure and luxury as quickly as a tennis racquet,” Ben Rothenberg writes in the introduction to “The Stylish…
In 2012, Novak Djokovic defeated Rafael Nadal for the Australian Open men’s singles title in a nearly six-hour match that is still the longest…
The 2012 French Open men’s final was in the words of the superb sports/culture website Grantland “an absolute mess.” It rained in Paris that…
Rafael Nadal is set to strip down as the new spokesmodel for Greenwich’s own Tommy Hilfiger. And all we at WAG can say is…
Time once again for the US Open, which kicks off Saturday, Aug. 23 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center with “Arthur…
Two local legends are on the WAG radar these days. Tennis coach Nick Bollettieri – who grew up in north Pelham, as he likes…
In WAG’s July 2012 “Going for the Gold” issue, I wrote a piece about rivalries in which I suggested that the rivalry between Rafael…
There are those folks who turn on tennis for the magic, the form, the intrigue that is the game. Then there are those folks…
Tennis’ “uniform” has influenced fashion in a far more significant way than the ubiquitous mesh tank top of other sports. For starters, you probably…
After a whirlwind fortnight at Wimbledon, legendary tennis coach – and onetime Pelham resident – Nick Bollettieri is back on this side of the pond with his predictions for the U.S. Open, which begins Aug. 27.
So I guess we now know the answer to the question I posed in my rivalry piece for the July issue of WAG (“The Best of Frenemies”): “Can (Ryan) Lochte supplant (Michael) Phelps?” I asked.