Welcome back to the Monday Tennis Briefing, where The Athletic will explain the stories behind the stories from the past week on court. This week, a new tennis serve entered the canon, the first ...

Welcome back to the Monday Tennis Briefing, where The Athletic will explain the stories behind the stories from the past week on court. This week, the underarm serve ended a match and started some ...

If you’ve ever picked up a tennis racket and attempted to serve against an opponent, you’ll know just how hard a skill it is. It’s one thing to get the ball over the net and yet a whole other thing to ...

All service motions have their unique idiosyncrasies. One of the features present in many big serves is a rocking motion to initiate the stroke. Servers will lean back slightly onto their dominant leg ...

“It’s a lot faster than I thought. It’s like when you hear that loud pop of a baseball when it hits the mitt. Or in tennis, it’s when you’re returning serve and the ball just goes past you and pops ...