US Open News

Roger Federer, Martina Navratilova and Pete Sampras make it look so easy when they come to the net and finish points with a winning volley.

Submitted by Steve Reynolds Bud Cox, Marco YMCA tennis instructor, seems to take on a Yoga position as he prepares for the Summer Junior Tennis Clinic on the Y courts.

A homeless man whose face was mostly chewed off in a bizarre attack last year in Miami says he doesn't want any more reconstructive surgery.

Andy Murray has withdrawn from the French Open with the back injury that forced him out in Italy last week.

So as one sport's season ends another approaches its most important phase. Men's tennis does not have that much in common with the Premier League but they share a top four that is incredibly difficult to break into - for Djokovic, Murray, Federer and Nadal read Manchester United and City, Chelsea and Arsenal.

Facing match point, the team's fate is on your shoulders, and you need to hit a second serve to stay alive.

Garrett Boleslav and Brent Boleslav practice serves before their Class A Section III semifinal match against Baldwinsville on Monday at Skytop.

ESPN will be the main telecaster for three out of four Grand Slam events when it takes over the US Open from Flushing Meadows, NY in 2015.

For the fourth consecutive year, Deloitte is proud to be the presenting sponsor of the Warrior Games, a Paralympic-style competition featuring 260 service members and veterans from the United States and the United Kingdom Aaron Carson Vaughn was one of America's most elite warriors.

Serena Williams will head to Paris for next week's French Open in the form of her life, but the world No 1 will be taking nothing for granted.

Rafael Nadal savors his sixth title of his remarkable comeback and 24th Masters crown after thrashing Roger Federer ni Rome.

Most of the top names on the WTA tour are at rest this week, but some big names such as former No.

Only the intrepid and the desperate play the week between a Masters 1000 tournament and a major, where the 250 events in Nice and Dusseldorf fall.

After decades on the network that saw stars from Ashe to Navratilova to Federer win, the U.S. Open is leaving CBS.

First impressions, second thoughts: Before Stephen Ames' first-round match against Tiger Woods in the 2006 Match-Play Championship, he was asked about his chances.

Andy Murray intends to wait until the middle of the coming week before making a final decision on whether to play in the French Open.

Dick Trickle, whose larger-than-life personality and penchant for fun won him legions of fans despite a lack of success beyond the nation's small tracks, died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities said.

BASEBALL Major League Baseball hopes to expand video review by umpires for the 2014 season and says all calls other than balls and strikes could be subject to instant replay.

French tennis has certainly picked up the pace in recent years -- well, on the men's side anyway -- and the latest of its quality ball-strikers is Benoit Paire.

Grigor Dimitrov, Milos Raonic and Ryan and Christian Harrison lead the next generation of ATP players in a Men's Journal feature entitled "Hit Squad" where they divulge what opponents fear most about their game.