1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (463+ words) It began with a fighting comeback by Madison Keys, wherein she edged Anna Bondár by a few points in a deciding 10-point tiebreak, used in the third (fifth for men): you take turns serving twice, first to 10 with a two-point…...

6+ day, 8+ hour ago   (576+ words) Win some, lose some: folk wisdom. Madison Keys puts it this way: “I think my level dropped, and she started to play better.” Miss Keys was referring to a blown lead. She was 5-0 in her third round match against Zheng…...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago   (233+ words) Two musicians from the New York Philharmonic attend a concert at Carnegie Hall introducing a young violinist from Vilna named Jascha Heifetz. “Kind of warm in here, wouldn’t you say?” one says, mopping his forehead and tugging at his collar....

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (313+ words) Solemnity matters, and I think everyone is quite conscious of the proximity of America’s greatest tennis tournament to two crucial moments in time, the annual 9/11 commemorations and the Jewish High Holidays, which more often come a few weeks after the…...

4+ week, 8+ hour ago   (440+ words) Alexandra Eala and Taylor Fritz, the stars of the Washington Open, went down quickly in Montreal and Toronto, where they play the tournament variously called the Canada Open and the Rogers Cup. You get confused with these name changes, which…...