Davis Cup News

Former world No. 1 players, Davis Cup teammates, International Tennis Hall of Famers and New Yorkers John McEnroe and Jim Courier will battle it out for the right to be called the best tennis player in New York City on the Sportime Stadium hard court on Monday, July 22nd as the NY Sportimes take on the Texas Wild in a Mylan World TeamTennis ... (more)

There's a universal adage that says two hands are better than one. In tennis, this has become the norm when it comes to players developing backhands, given the physicality and power of the modern game.

As a tennis player, Andy Roddick was rarely a member of a team. Sure, there were doubles competitions and Davis Cup appearances, but for the most part Roddick lived the secular life of a professional tennis player.

World No. 1 Novak Djokovic will celebrate his birthday as he does every year at this time -- preparing for the French Open.

Former World No. 1 players, Davis Cup standouts and International Tennis Hall of Famers John McEnroe and Jim Courier will battle it out on the Sportime Stadium hard court on Monday, July 22nd, as the NY Sportimes take on the Texas Wild in a Mylan World TeamTennis matchup.

Djokovic has reached the final in four of the five past years at the Foro Italico, winning the title in 2008 and 2011.

Two powerhouse athletes from Australia have committed to play in this summer's Citi Open , a part of the Emirates Airline US Open Series.

South African Davis Cup stalwart Rik De Voest speedily obliterated the disappointment of progressing no further than the quarter-finals of the recent Soweto Open by reaching the final of the ATP's R1,2-million Kun-Ming Open Challenger tournament in China on Sunday.

The top-ranked player twisted his ankle while representing Serbia in the Davis Cup in April then appeared to hurt it again in a second-round loss to Grigor Dimitrov at the Madrid Open on Tuesday.

Rafael Nadal is back in the Madrid Masters final for the fifth time after a straight-set victory over fellow Spaniard Pablo Andujar in the first of Saturday's semifinals.

In fact Bernie has almost gone in search of bad press. There was the turning down of Lleyton Hewitt as a practice partner.

So close, but yet so far. That has been, like it or not, the theme of Stan Wawrinka's 2013 season.

Madrid: Victoria Azarenka lost her temper and was docked a point for smashing her racket on the way to a surprise 6-1, 2-6, 3-6 defeat by unseeded Russian Ekaterina Makarova in the Madrid Open second round on Wednesday.

But the university later retracted the statement, saying Hawking had withdrawn from the Israeli Presidential Conference because of ill health.

Maybe the impressive takeaway from Grigor Dimitrov stunning 76, 67, 63 win over Novak Djokovic yesterday at the Mutua Madrid Masters is the 21-year-old's understanding that there's still more work to do.

Amanda Berry was taken Wednesday morning to her sister's home in the city's west side neighborhood where she planned to live with her 6-year-old daughter after being held for a decade in captivity only miles away.

Menino believes it wouldn't be appropriate for the burial to be in Boston. The 26-year-old, a resident of Cambridge, was killed in a police shootout days after the April 15 bombings that killed three people and injured more than 260.

Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew's signature is shown on the annual report for the Financial Stability Oversight Council in Washington, on Tuesday, May 7, 2013.

Djokovic looked to be screaming vulgarities at crowd between sets in Serbian. Can't imagine last time he played in atmosphere so hostile.

Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford defeated Democratic businesswoman Elizabeth Colbert Busch in a special House election for South Carolina's first congressional district, despite an expansive effort among Democrats to turn the district blue for the first time in more than 30 years.