What California is to America, Australia has often been for tennis — the lab where new stuff goes for a test drive ...

Kim Clijsters recently recalled how seeing Steffi Graf in person for the first time overwhelmed her. The recollection was from Clijsters' debut Grand Slam at the 1999 Wimbledon Championships.

I love the smell of fresh-cut grass in the morning, but I hate seeing my favorite professional tennis players slipping and falling-down on the grass courts at Wimbledon. When did Championships ...

These three courts have retractable roofs that can be closed in the case ... The heat rule used at the Wimbledon Championships, external is based on the 'wet bulb global temperature' - a measure ...

Back then, the Australian Open felt like a Grand Slam only by name. The tournament, then hosted at the outgrown facilities in Kooyong, a suburb of Melbourne, offered measly prize money and rankings ...

881 winning percentage, by defeating 21-year-old Portuguese qualifier Jaime Faria 6-1, 6-7 (4), 6-3, 6-2 in a match briefly interrupted by light rain before Rod Laver Arena's retractable roof was ...