Yesterday, Russian Tennis Federation President Shamil Tarpischev was fined $25,000 and suspended for one year by the Women's Tennis Association Tour after making some incredibly stupid and offensive comments about Serena and Venus Williams. Serena has commended the WTA's response.
Fresh off collecting her eighteenth Grand Slam, Serena Williams has graced us with this Beats by Dre commercial, in which she mostly exercises. I'm not sure whether I'm inspired to go to the gym or give up on physical fitness entirely because I will never be one-twentieth as good at anything as Serena Williams is…
Holy canoli people. Last night Serena Williams won the US Open for the third time in a row. It's her sixth overall win, her 18th Grand slam title (surpassing Roger Federer), and she's about to get a record amount of prize money for tennis athletes—to the tune of $4 million.
Today, the Google doodle honors Althea Gibson, who won five Grand Slam Singles titles and broke the color barrier in tennis.
Today in excellent-but-bizarre-movie-announcements, Kit Harington and Andy Samberg will play tennis rivals involved in a seemingly endless seven day match in a new HBO mockumentary.
Summer's in full swing, and there are sporting events all over the damn TV. The World Cup has presented us with lots of excuses to gaze upon Thighlights, but are soccer uniforms really the most awesome uniforms in the sporting world? If not, then what sport has the best uniform? Time for some investigative journalism.
Quartz has posited an interesting, if incomplete, theory: money is why we pay attention to women's tennis, and why you should care about women's tennis. Actually, history is why we pay attention to women's tennis, and why you do care about women's tennis.
Tennis star Andy Murray hired a woman to be his new coach and some people are predictably furious about it.
Yesterday, 18-year-old Taylor Townsend has made it past the first round of the French Open after being down 1-5 in the first set, but she was almost barred from competing at the 2012 US Open juniors tournament because of her weight.
Here's a Golden Retriever puppy being driven completely mad with excitement over TV footage of the 2014 Australian Open. If you're wondering if watching a dog watch something for two minutes will get boring, the answer is a resounding NO.
This is Eugenie Bouchard. She is a 19-year-old professional tennis player and she just made history, by becoming the first Canadian woman to advance to the semi-finals of the Australian Open in nearly thirty years. But who cares about that, because what's apparently most important about her is who she's dating!
For the third time in her 18-year professional career, Serena Williams has been awarded AP's Female Athlete of the Year. With a record of 78-4 (with a 34-match winning streak), 11 titles, and a couple more Grand Slams under her belt, she racked up 55 of the 96 votes. 2012 AP women's college basketball Player of the…
Watch this rebel squirrel interrupt a match between Sabine Lisicki and Vera Dushevina at the US Open. This rebel squirrel does not give a nut.
This is victory face.
Upsetting 2011 U.S. Open champion Samantha Stosur, the teenager pulled a stunning win in what's only her second Grand Slam match ever.
Pippa Middleton's latest column for the British political rag the Spectator (she has a column for the British political rag the Spectator) takes on the topic of Wimbledon. "Wimbers is tennis at its best, the grandest of all slams," writes the younger Middleton sister. "Which is why I like to go every year, at least…
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DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - FEBRUARY 18: Sloane Stephens of USA stretches for a forehand in her match against Sorana Cirstea of Romania during day one of the WTA Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championship on February 18, 2013 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (Photo by Julian Finney/Getty Images)
Jesse Huta Galung, right, and Thiemo de Bakker of The Netherlands, left, return a shot against Sweden's Robert Lindstedt, left, and Serbia's Nenad Zimonjic at the men's double final at the ABN AMRO world tennis tournament at Ahoy Arena in Rotterdam, Netherlands, Sunday Feb. 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
This summer we told you the odd tale of Lois Goodman, a 70-year old tennis official that had been on her way to officiate a day of matches at the U.S. Open when police re-routed her to jail, arrested on suspicion of bludgeoning her husband to death with a coffee mug. Today, Goodman is a free woman, and has been…
During a recent match against Maria Sharapova, 22-year-old Danish tennis player Caroline Wozniacki decided to break out a hilarious impression of Serena Williams in which she stuffed the bust and butt of her uniform with towels to mimic Williams' body shape. Even better, this was a repeat performance. Wozniacki has…
