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Tennis is going on offense to stop 'obnoxious' pickleball's rise
Tennis' governing body USTA is launching Red Ball Tennis, a new game on a smaller court to challeng…
Geoff Weiss
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WATCH: Sweden’s Truls Moregard stuns Olympics crowd with an insane trick shot in table tennis final!
Moregard treated the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles crowd to an extraordinary display of skill, as …
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India's tennis campaign at the Paris Olympics ends in a single day as Nagal, Bopanna and Balaji bow out
India have won only one Olympic medal in tennis, when Leander Paes bagged a bronze in the 1996 Atla…
PTI
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Rebecca Ferguson says she asked 'idiot' costar to be replaced with a tennis ball after they screamed abuse at her on set
The "Dune: Part Two" star said it was not Hugh Jackman or Tom Cruise who she said behaved badly. Dw…
Eve Crosbie
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How 'Challengers' turned Zendaya and the cast into tennis stars, from strength training to 10,000-calorie diets
Zendaya, Josh O'Connor, and Mike Faist star as tennis players caught in a love triangle in "Challen…
Olivia Singh
How tennis, basketball, and pickle-ball courts are painted
Court Surface Specialists is a company in Ontario. Its team designs and builds tennis, basketball, …
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I manage Wimbledon's tennis balls. It's harder than you'd think to get 58,000 balls onto the courts of tennis' biggest stars.
Andy Chevalier, 41, has worked on Wimbledon's ball-distribution team since 2018, but this is his fi…
Emma Magnus
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A 'ball boy took' Rafael Nadal's tennis racket in the middle of a match, causing chaos at the Australian Open
There was a delay at the Australian Open and a ball boy may have been to blame as he seemed to walk…
Alan Dawson
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Spanish player dumped out of Wimbledon on a penalty when he smashed ball out of court in anger on match point
Alejandro Davidovich Fokina was facing match point against Jiri Vesely when he lashed a ball out of…
Barnaby Lane
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Great Britain's fastest rising tennis star — and ball boy rescuer — Jodie Burrage on the mystique of Wimbledon, US Open dreams, and hard work paying off
Burrage has won 26 matches this year already, the most of any of Great Britain's top five female pl…
Barnaby Lane
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A British tennis player came to the rescue of a Wimbledon ball boy who was taken ill during a match, giving him an energy drink and candy
Jodie Burrage told reporters after her first-round defeat that the ball boy had told her he was fee…
Barnaby Lane
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Nick Kyrgios started arguing with spectators just 12 minutes into his first match at Wimbledon before smashing a ball out of the arena and calling a line judge a 'snitch'
The notorious tennis bad boy called out some members of the crowd after he beat Great Britain's Pau…
Barnaby Lane
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Nick Kyrgios smashed his racket and almost hit a ball kid with it, then mocked a journalist who asked him about the incident
Had the ball kid not been paying attention, the racket would have almost certainly hit him in the h…
Will Martin
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Billie Jean King intends to 'live better' as she heads into her 80s. Her plan includes weightlifting and plenty of tennis.
Billie Jean King — the legendary tennis star and equality advocate — told Insider staying active is…
Meredith Cash
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Tennis' biggest stars are unhappy with the French Open's new balls that 'you wouldn't give to a dog to chew'
Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Dominic Thiem, and others have said the balls at Roland Garros have f…
Meredith Cash
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Australian Open fan favorite Nick Kyrgios made a young fan cry by smashing an errant ball into his stomach, then immediately gave him a racket to apologize
Kyrgios and Thanasi Kokkinakis beat New Zealand's Michael Venus and Germany's Tim Püetz in the quar…
Barnaby Lane
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I started playing tennis again after 30 years. The biggest surprise was all the new friends I've made.
The author sees the same group of people every Thursday while taking tennis lessons, and it's turne…
Conz Preti
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A US tennis star was on the cusp of toppling the world No. 1 — then 'Cotton Eye Joe' started blasting through Center Court
World No. 3 Jessica Pegula nearly lost in the Canadian Open semifinals after "Cotton Eye Joe" blast…
Meredith Cash
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An American tennis player got disqualified after a bizarre series of events that started when a ball kid hit him in the crotch
Tennys Sandgren swiped a ball in frustration after being hit in the crotch, hitting an official on …
Sam Cooper
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A TV commentator was fired for saying South Korean table-tennis Olympians had eyes so 'narrow' he couldn't understand 'how they can see the ball'
The Greek television station ERT said in a statement Monday that it fired Dimosthenis Karmiris as a…