NEW YORK—Did you happen to know that Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe were rivals once upon a time? You may have heard something about it this year. I wrote a book about it, Matt Cronin wrote a book about ...

The mercurial McEnroe entered the final with a dazzling 39-0 record. The New Yorker was so dominant through the first five months of 1984 that he had won 65 of his prior 67 sets—including sweeps of ...

This is the sort of thing that one is wont to discuss at this time of the year, when the real beef of the season on the clay and grass hasn't quite started and the first grand slam is out of the way.

The debate was rekindled in a study recently published in the scientific journal PLos ONE, based on the research of Northwestern University statistical physicist Filippo Radicchi. He wasn't trying to ...

Sit back and look at him. The great Ivan in full concentration about to hit that wonderful one-handed backhand of his. A stroke he hit very much like present day Roger Federer (if you don't believe me ...