Tennis

The wait is almost over! Coming up a little later this week on Thursday, June 24th (06-24-21) at 10:00am the grand reopening and ribbon cutting ceremony for the Greer Park tennis courts on 38th Street will take place. Everyone is welcome to attend the ceremony and rededication of the newly improved courts. If you've been by there lately you've probably seen all the construction and improvements the city has been making.

Tancred, Bleachers, Maggie Rogers and more indie acts that should be playing at your next hipster hangout.

Dogs working as ball boys in a tennis match? We "love" that idea.

It turns out when you're trying to be a champion, you don't always have time to try to look cool. Sometimes you just have to do what it takes and hope that later the awesomeness of being champion will erase any embarrassing moments from memory.

Tennis’s top venue said an early goodbye to one of its most familiar faces on Monday when Venus Williams lost in consecutive sets in the first round at Wimbledon. Williams has five Wimbledon titles under her belt, but that wasn’t enough to intimidate her opponent Elena Vesnina who cruised 6-1, 6-3 against one of the sport’s best. How does Vesnina’s upset stack up against other impressive wins in t

Rising tennis star Caroline Wozniacki proved she is quite the “dancing queen” when she started shaking her moneymaker during a stoppage of play in an exhibition match. Her opponent, Dominika Cibulkova, joined the Danish superstar in getting down on center court as well.

In honor of the U.S. Open, Jimmy Fallon mimicked pro Roger Federer in a skit called “At the Bar With Roger Federer” on ‘Late Night.’

For a New York Times Magazine feature on great tennis rivalries of the past, actor-comedian Andy Samberg posed as legendary court stars John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors, Bjorn Borg, Andre Agassi and Pete Sampras, and replicated a classic shot of McEnroe and Borg for the cover (above).

Ladies, enough already with the grunting. So says Ian Ritchie, chief executive of the All England Lawn and Tennis Club where Wimbledon is played.