Fred Perry

Of course this china-smashing, cart-toppling, dreamlike rush to the brink of history couldn't be easy for Scotland's Andy Murray. For tennis players from Great Britain, it never is. When the rains came Saturday, interrupting Murray's quest for an epic U....

Fourth-ranked Andy Murray beat Gilles Simon of France, 6-4, 7-6 (6), to win the ATP Madrid Masters in Spain. The U.S. Open finalist became the first Briton to win four titles in a season. He will be the first Briton in the Open era since Fred Perry in...

COME ON DOWN, Stefan Lemperle says. Here, 13 feet under the ground, there's sunlight and fresh air, an open-to-the-sky patio with a rock-lined pond, a high-ceilinged lounge and a media room large enough to host dozens of friends. Lemperle's new glass...

NEW YORK — Serena Williams is the U.S. Open champion again, is the world's No. 1 player again, is a force to be reckoned with again. Using all of her substantial arsenal, Williams defeated Jelena Jankovic 6-4, 7-5 in the Open final Sunday night. It...

Serena Williams flung her racket straight up and jumped for joy, hopping and skipping and screaming and generally looking like someone who had just won her first Grand Slam title. Displaying the talent and tenacity that helped her dominate tennis earlier...

NEW YORK—As befits a world traveler of great wealth, Roger Federer owns homes all over the world: Oberwil, Switzerland; Wimbledon, England; Flushing Meadows. Who would argue that Arthur Ashe Stadium does not belong to Federer in the wake of his...

Wherever Roger Federer went in Manhattan yesterday -- to the sets of two network morning shows, to a photo op at the observation deck of the Empire State Building -- the Swiss star's fifth U.S. Open trophy was his constant, seven-pound companion. Federer...

SOMETIME last week, center court at Wimbledon began to look more like a fashion show than a tennis tournament. There was Serena Williams warming up in a chic, belted, white trench coat under cloudless skies, Roger Federer as Jay Gatsby in a white cardigan...

My mom threw me in AYSO. The city I grew up in Southern California had the Irvine Soccer Club. I played that for five years. Soccer is probably my best sport. In California, basketball and soccer are the same seasons. They're both a fall sport. I had to...

Reputations and personal popularity in Britain go up and down faster than an express elevator. Just ask retired tennis player Tim Henman, the England soccer team or Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The cultural phenomenon is driven by the popular press,...

Long-time Hoboken residents relish the opportunity to rattle off a list of their hometown's firsts: the city's lore includes the first baseball game, the first ice cream cone, the first zipper, the country's first brewery and the world's first ferry...

Testifying to the ongoing Invasion, the kingdom's sounds enliven clubs and Angelenos find a cultural kinship. In a town where you can practically dance to the beat of the boom-bust cycle, and six months is a good run for a club night, one part of the...