Wimbledon News

Boris Becker's official Twitter feed gives something of an insight into the mind of the tennis world's former number one.

While Roger Federer has begun to look more and more human in recent years, few have ever questioned his ability to reach the late stages of a Grand Slam.

The U.S. Open tennis tournament will leave CBS after nearly a half-century and move all TV coverage to cable starting in 2015 under an 11-year contract with ESPN.

Rafael Nadal can become the first man to win the same Grand Slam title eight times at the French Open with few willing to risk talking down the rejuvenated Spaniard's chances.

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Sporting legends Sir Ian Botham and Gavin Hastings are putting their support behind the England cricket team and the British & Irish Lions and back both to taste victory this summer when they take on arch nemesis Australia during the Lions Tour and the Ashes cricket series.

Andy Roddick, at one time the No. 1 men's tennis player in the world and a Grand Slam singles champion, is joining FOX Sports 1, America's new sports network launching Aug.

Wandsworth Town is the leading property hotspot for aspiring young professionals in England and Wales, according to figures from Lloyds TSB.

Billie Jean King was an athlete first. Quickly, she became a champion, many times over.

Not every sport needs a feel-good story, but they really help bring in fans that might otherwise not be so interested.

Led by captain Ed Corrie, up 203 places in the world rankings this year and second only to Andy Murray in amount of rankings points won by Brits in 2013, the Hertfordshire team beat Virgin Active Cardiff 3-1 in the final.

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.

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.

Andy Murray has withdrawn from the French Open with the back injury that forced him out in Italy last week.

Top-seeded Marion Bartoli and No. 2 Tamira Paszek were both eliminated from the first round of the Strasbourg International on Tuesday.

A 50-acre compound on the Greenwich waterfront with a pair of private islands, a driveway longer than most highway interchanges and a 19th-century French Victorian mansion with as many bedrooms as there are days of Christmas hit the market Friday at an other-worldly $190 million.

Lleyton Hewitt will head into next week's French Open feeling positive despite a distinct lack of tournament play following a first round exit at the ATP event in Nice.

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.

All of Monday's scheduled opening-round action was postponed because of rain at the $235,000 Strasbourg International tennis event, a final clay-court French Open tune-up. Seven matches, including ones for top seeds Marion Bartoli of France and Tamira Paszek of Austria, were pushed back to Tuesday at Strasbourg Tennis Club.

Todd Woodbridge has called ''disappointing'' the defection of former Australian Open junior champion Brydan Klein to Britain, his mother's birthplace, while insisting that the combustible 23-year-old must take responsibility for the poor behaviour that led to Tennis Australia cutting off the last of its funding assistance in 2010.