Tennis Analysis: Grand Slams, ATP & WTA Tours

Jannik Sinner has defended his Wimbledon title, beating first-time finalist Alexander Zverev in a four-set battle that took almost four hours to settle. It caps a strange few weeks for the world number one,…

Novak Djokovic arrived on Centre Court chasing the one number nobody in the sport has ever owned outright, and left two hours and 20 minutes later with the crowd singing him off and the record still shared.…

Every so often a home player turns a fortnight at Wimbledon into a story the whole country follows, and for a week Arthur Fery was that player. It ended on Centre Court on Friday against a man who has spent a…

There is a version of Novak Djokovic that the sport keeps expecting to arrive, the one whose body finally files its objection and does not withdraw it. On Centre Court it did not arrive again. Djokovic spent…

A fortnight ago Arthur Fery was a name for the specialists, a British wildcard ranked outside the world's top 100 who had never won a match at a Grand Slam main draw worth talking about. On Wednesday he beat…

Every Wimbledon needs a story it did not see coming, and this year it belongs to Arthur Fery. A British wildcard ranked outside the world's top 100 walked onto Centre Court for the first time in his life,…

It was meant to be one of the images of the fortnight: Serena and Venus Williams back on a Grand Slam court together for the first time in four years. Instead a knee injury, picked up in Serena's singles…

Some wins arrive on the front foot and some are dragged back from the edge inch by inch. Arthur Fery's, on a packed Court 18, was firmly the latter. The 23-year-old British wild card was second best for most…

Novak Djokovic is 39 and still refusing to leave. This covers his four-set win over Arthur Rinderknech at Wimbledon, the one that drew him level with Roger Federer on the tournament's all-time list of men's…

Four years ago Serena Williams said goodbye to tennis on her own terms, and almost nobody expected to see her on a Grand Slam singles court again. Wimbledon 2026 has changed that. This piece looks at her…

Defending champions are supposed to ease through the first round. Jannik Sinner did the opposite, dragged to five sets, knocked off balance by two nasty falls, and made to work for three and a half hours…

Katie Swan won her first Wimbledon match in eight years, two years after a back injury left her coaching in Kansas and thinking about quitting. This piece covers the 6-4, 6-4 win over Irina-Camelia Begu, the…

The French Open 2026 women's semi-finals are not just about tennis. Three of the four remaining players carry the geopolitical weight of an ongoing war onto the court at Roland Garros. This piece examines the…

This piece examines one of the most improbable quarter-final reversals in recent Roland Garros history, tracing exactly how Diana Shnaider dismantled a world No 1 who had the match thoroughly in hand. We also…

This piece examines what Novak Djokovic's shock third-round exit at the 2026 French Open means for one of sport's great careers. We look at how the defeat unfolded, what the 39-year-old said about his future…

Cameron Norrie's Roland Garros 2026 campaign ended in the most painful circumstances before it had truly begun. This piece examines how a preparation-phase rib injury unravelled on court in Paris, what the…

The numbers at the heart of tennis's prize money dispute tell their own story, and the players have found a pointed way to make them visible. This piece examines what the 15-minute media limit at Roland Garros…

Andy Murray returning to the sidelines was only a matter of time, but few predicted the role would come this quickly or feel this fitting. This piece examines what the Murray-Draper partnership really means: a…

The French Open has confirmed a 9.5% prize money increase for its 2026 tournament, with the most significant rises deliberately directed at qualifying and the opening rounds rather than the latter stages. This…

Jamie Murray has announced his retirement from tennis at the age of 40, bringing the curtain down on a 36-year journey that made him the greatest British doubles player of the Open Era. This piece examines the…