The king is dead, long live the king. As tennis moves to clay courts for the next few months, one of the sport’s greatest on the surface will be abscent for the first time in two decades. A clay-court ...

At the Madrid Open, players continued to rely on ball marks to argue with electronic line calling. Tennis needs to find a ...

Also, as a final column for the clay season, here's one I wrote at ESPN.com last week. On to the lawns. “Steve, with Rafael Nadal now winning three straight French Opens, who is he still chasing? In ...

Donovan Clay hasn't been shy about his goals for this upcoming season. One of the three returning Bears from last season, Clay has made the bold statement on multiple occasions during the preseason ...

Rafael Nadal holds the highest ATP win percentage on clay in the Open Era by an impressive margin, while Novak Djokovic and Bjorn Borg also feature in the top five. Four male players hold a win rate ...

Rafael Nadal has won more Masters 1000 titles on clay than the next three players on the list combined, with both Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer making the top four. The ‘King of Clay’ is one of ...

Andy Roddick believes clay season exposes more about a player’s game than any other stretch of the calendar, particularly from an American perspective. As the 2003 US Open champion noted, tennis is ...

Despite having 16 players in the world’s top 100, not a single one remains standing in the men’s fourth round draw at the ...

No one can quite place a finger on it. There may be many factors contributing to America's woes on clay tennis surfaces. Is it habitual? Cultural? Economical? Perhaps a little of all three. When the ...

Tennessee State's Jr. Clay has been named the HBCU All-Stars National Spotlight Player of the Week for Jan. 15-21. Clay scored 25.5 ppg in the Tigers' two games last week. After scoring 18 points in ...