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 ...

Back in the day, embracing the tiebreaker to decide the outcome of sets was a heavy psychological lift for players accustomed to the traditional scoring system. In later times, Electronic Line-Calling ...

Every sport has its own little quirks and oddities (I’m still not clear on why a football field is technically called a “gridiron”), but tennis might rank among the strangest. From the illogical ...