Boll-istic Backhand by Nick Bollettieri

Bus carrying tennis team crashes

CONCORD, N.C. – A school bus carrying the Cannon School varsity tennis team crashed into a ditch Tuesday afternoon. The accident happened near the intersection of Poplar Tent Road and Cox Mill Road just after 3 p.m ...

JPD: Residents Fight Off Home Invader

where the husband held the man down while his wife beat him with a leaf blower and a tennis racket, the husband said. The man, who was bleeding, was able to escape, but ran off with the husband and wife's wallets,

Gone with the wind: Sharapova routs Capra at Open

But on a day better suited for flying a kite than hitting tennis balls, Capra never came close to duplicating that script."This is probably the toughest conditions we're going to get," Sharapova said. "But I think ...

White After Labor Day: Do You Dare?

tennis shoes and sunglasses. "Um, I go both ways with that. Just depends on how warm it's going to be," said Liz Inghilterra, dressed in white capris pants. "I don't take it out at all. My wife hides them on me,

Champagne fuels Paris Fashion's Night Out edition

wearing a white tennis shoe on his right foot and a loafer in gleaming black patent leather on his left. Perhaps in an attempt to keep his balance, he held a glass of Champagne in each hand. Champagne was the common ...

Tennis Channel Chairman to Ring The NASDAQ Stock Market Opening Bell

ADVISORY, Sept. 1, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- What: Ken Solomon, Chairman and CEO of Tennis Channel, will visit NASDAQ MarketSite in Times Square and preside over the opening bell in honor of the 2010 US Open. Where ...

Agassi leads nominees for Tennis Hall of Fame

NEWPORT, R.I. - Andre Agassi leads the list of 2011 nominees for the International Tennis Hall of Fame. Owner of a career Grand Slam and an eight-time major champion, Agassi is the only nominee in the ...

Azarenka collapses, is wheeled off U.S. Open tennis courts

NEW YORK ? Victoria Azarenka collapsed and fell to the ground while chasing down a ball on the baseline and had to be taken off the court in a wheelchair Wednesday, 31 minutes into her match on another steamy day at ...

With 6 of the last 16, Spain reigns at US Open

NEW YORK (AP) - Before the first ball was struck Tuesday at the U.S. Open, this much was certain: Spain would be the day's big winner. Sparked by Rafael Nadal's surge to the top of tennis, the country has ...

Fish lost weight but needs to gain something

I want Fat Mardy back. There, I said it. That's it for one of the dominant narratives of this summer of tennis, the last word on a subject that, at least in American tennis circles, has been as inescapable ...