Maria Sharapova has announced her retirement from tennis via an essay written for Vanity Fair and Vogue. Article here. Well, this was surprising and certainly out of nowhere. Thought she'd grind it out for a year or so to see where it takes her but I guess it's the right decision after the...

This thread is to be used for live commentary for matches, be very clear this is not a live scoring thread. This will be used as the official thread, new threads are not to be created for each match, this will result in the closure of this thread. Enjoy!!

This thread will feature biographies of women who played tennis at a world class level. Note that the women will be added as we find information, so they will not appear in alphabetical order. To find women listed in alphabetical order please go to the Blast Encyclopedia of Female Tennis...

To this day I am yet to see a topic on any forum dedicated to tenis players in bikinis so I thought I'd start one. So post any pictures of tennis players in bikinis you have even if you dont find them attractive, someone might. vol. 1

Heartbreaking for Rybakina but what a fight by Halep!