A tennis match on clay keeps no secrets. The red canvas is clean to start. Then, with each step, slide and bounce of the ball, two players paint the story. Over several hours, tennis becomes a ...

On clay, 1.7 percent has become 2.3, compared to 1.4 percent on hard courts and 1.8 percent on grass (which uses 2024 figures, because the 2025 grass-court season is yet to start.) It has inspired ...

Just over 18 years ago, in May 2007, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer engaged in one of the most bizarre tennis matches in the ...

Before this season, Fearnley had not won a clay-court match on the ATP Tour. He goes into the French Open with a 9-3 record on the surface, including a win over world number 19 Tomas Machac.

When Huey and Yoo meet in today's final at 12:30 p.m., a spot in the main draw of the Legg Mason Tennis Classic will be up for grabs. The winner of the boys' 18 singles gets a shot to face ...

An aerial rendering shows the clay tennis court designed for a lakefront lot in the 1200 block of South Ocean Boulevard in Palm Beach. The lot is owned by a limited liability company linked to ...

When Gaston was crafting drop shot after drop shot against Thiem under much different conditions (the event was held Sept. 27-Oct. 11), the ball was dying in the cold, heavy clay.

There's no Grand Slam like the French Open, because there's no Grand Slam court like Roland-Garros. It doesn't really matter how powerful a player is. How fast ...

Nadal has used this shot with great effect during his 14 wins at the French Open and it can rush an opponent is gets into a rhythm of hitting high shots on the high-bouncing clay courts. LOOK OUT FOR ...

Jack Draper's improved clay-court game makes him one of the French Open's contenders - but what makes a player excel on the surface?