11-time Grand Slam champion Rod Laver is putting his money on Novak Djokovic to be at the top of the tennis world for the next few years. After winning both the U.S. Open and Wimbledon this year, ...

"We played in the old Madison Square Garden," recalls tennis Hall of Famer Rod Laver, "and ice was down because I guess the Rangers were in town. They stretched out a canvas court on top of the ice.

The eighth edition of the Laver Cup takes place this year as Andre Agassi's Team World and Yannick Noah's Team Europe face off in San Francisco. The so-called 'Ryder Cup of tennis' pits the best ...

MELBOURNE, Australia – Fifty years after Rod Laver won the last true Grand Slam in men’s tennis, he is fairly confident the feat will be replicated one day, unlikely as it may seem. “It’s got to ...

Novak Djokovic was playing for history on Sunday at the US Open, and Rod Laver was in attendance for the big match. Djokovic was facing Daniil Medvedev in the final and looking to win the Grand Slam.

On the Beyond the Baseline Podcast, Sports Illustrated executive editor, Tennis Channel commentator and host Jon Wertheim takes fans between the lines with tennis commentary and exclusive interviews ...

My first hero is the same as everybody else’s, and that’s my dad. When you’re a kid, that’s your hero. My dad wanted me to play tennis and allowed me to be a tennis pro. He was an electrical engineer ...

In every sport we often debate as to who was the greatest of ALL time. A debate that has an impossible conclusion. In golf we talk about Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods. In tennis its Roger Federer and ...

"Game respects game" is a typical saying in sports, when fellow athletes share their mutual respects, but in this case, "game changer respects game changer" is more fitting. Spurred on by the great ...

Nick Kyrgios is often seen as a talent who never quite fulfilled his potential, at least in the eyes of some tennis fans.

Rod Laver has as much tennis sneaker cache as anyone in the game, even Stan Smith, his contemporary. Both players, active in the 1960s and 1970s, earned shoe endorsements from Adidas and both played ...