Being there at the birth of a star is like falling in love, it IS falling in love, and love is a many splendored thing Kevin Curren, the man who did battle in the final of Wimbledon 1985 with Boris Becker, was only ranked Number 8, but he played like he was Number One those two weeks. Curren was a p...

Er…if you don’t mind my asking, what’s that German lad doing on our centre court? In real time terms we’re back in the early summer of 1985, but after a strawberry-blond kid from Germany bombarded center court at Wimbledon, you’d have thought we’d stepped back to the time of the blit...

Justine Henin has retired from tennis, still ranked No. 1, though in the throes of a mysterious (or maybe not so mysterious) slump. She made the announcement at a press conference just minutes ago, and it certainly doesn’t sound like she’s going to change her mind: “This is the end...

ATP CEO Etienne de Villiers may not have a job come this time next year. What difference will that make? The number one and two seeds look like they’ll meet in the final in Barcelona and Munich and I’ll finally see some footage of Barcelona tomorrow. We’re on the Rafa watch here: How long can ...

Pete Sampras and Roger Federer are twins, of a sort. So do you ever wonder what these two dudes talk about now that they are friends and they have hung out together? Maybe it’s just me, I’m sure it is, but I fall asleep sometimes thinking thoughts like this. What are they saying, and are they dr...

Roger Federer and Pete Sampras put on a show in Madison Square Garden on Monday night. What did it mean? Everybody is hunting down Roger Federer these days. David Nalbandian beat him back to back in Madrid and Paris last fall. Novak Djokovic took him out in the semifinals at the Australian Open. And...

Dubai is raging and everyone is wondering what’s happening with Federer and we’ll get back to that, but I wanted to post this guest commentary on my column about Monica Seles. Michael Klarner, who lives in Germany, is our writer and he has a background in history as well as an appreciation for t...

A peek back into tennis history at one of the sport’s first Golden Boys For whatever reasons, tennis became attractive to me from an early age. I like to tell people that, in tennis history terms, I was lucky enough to have caught the tail end of Pancho, Mr. G that is, with his tall brown lean...