Great servers have realized that power and pace are not the end-all and be-all, and that their killer shots must be backed up with a solid return game.

No player ever wins a war with the fans.

“He completely outplayed me,” Zverev said of Jannik Sinner after their Australian Open final. “I’m serving better than him, but that’s it.”

Sinner's remarkable on-court ability to block out any distraction from his mission has been on full display as he seeks to defend his Melbourne title.

The kids are alright, but the adults—we’ll call them the 25-and-overs—are better.

When it comes to tennis, time may not be on the Frenchman’s side, but the hard courts of Melbourne Park are.

The Novak Djokovic-Jannik Sinner tempest in a teacup is a pretty good indicator of what a lousy time it is for controversy.

Each of them had a mid-career encounter with the familiar warning, “You don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone.”

Tennis’ great annual reset takes place in Melbourne, and in one way the game’s haves should be thankful that the sport’s much-debated off-season is so fleeting.

But the terms under which the world No. 7 will have to compete going forward are pretty clear: She must to do what she already does best, only better.

The showman looks to break away from a 'servebot' label come 2025.