The World's No. 1 Junior Tennis Player, Taylor Townsend, Has Been Told to Slim Down

Taylor Townsend, a 16-year-old tennis prodigy from Chicago, is the numero uno junior girls' tennis player in the world, the reigning Australian Open singles champion and the junior Wimbledon doubles champion, and on Thursday she won two matches at the U.S. Open's junior tournament. She's awesome, is what we're getting…
Play The Hand You're Deltoid
LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 04: Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France dives to hit a backhand return during his Gentlemen's Singles quarter final match against Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany on day nine of the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on July 4, 2012 in London, England.…
French Tennis Pro Gilles Simon Is Ripped A New One For Saying Female Players Should Be Paid Less
To say that Gilles Simon, currently seeded 13th in France and just elected to the ATP Player Council, "put his foot in his mouth" in an interview on Monday would be inaccurate; more aptly, he intentionally, with forethought and hubris, said something fucking dumb as a rock. Right after the anniversary of Title IX,…
Novak Djokovic Fan Is Tragically Robbed of Her Chance to Fondle His Shirt
So much for tennis fans being polite. Earlier today, Novak Djokovic beat Rafael Nadal in an epic match to win the Australian Open, which lasted nearly 6 hours—the longest Grand Slam singles final in history. He decided to celebrate by throwing one of his extra shirts up to a fan in the stands, but it didn't quite go…
Girl Forced to Remove Bug from Tennis Court, World Squirms for Her
A ball girl was forced by an unchivalrous tennis player — who evidently doesn't know that bugs and children are sworn natural enemies — to remove a large cricket from the court yesterday at the Australian Open. The cameraman spares us a close-up of the surely disgusting creature, but he doesn't spare the girl any…
Venus Williams: 'I Couldn't Feel My Hands'
Tennis fans were shocked yesterday when Venus Williams dropped out of the U.S. Open at the very last minute, after she winning her first match and being scheduled to play against Sabine Lisicki today. Williams announced that she's been diagnosed with Sjögren's Syndrome, an autoimmune disease that effects a person's…
Venus Williams Drops Out Of U.S. Open
Venus Williams has pulled out of the U.S. Open before her second-round match, apparently due to "an unspecified illness." Now we probably won't get to find out what she thinks about the tournament's scheduling decisions.
