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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Welcome back to the Monday Tennis Briefing, where The Athletic will explain the stories behind the stories from the past week ...

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 ...

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 ...