Corey Seymour

A first-round loss against Emma Raducanu only gives Serena more time to heal up—and to fine-tune her game in time for the U.S. Open.

Yee-haw agenda meets blue-chip luxury at this Montana resort.

With a riveting 7-6, 2-6, 6-2 victory over second-seeded Anett Kontaveit of Estonia, Serena Williams gave the sold-out crowd at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens something to lose their minds about on Wednesday.

Few things have captivated tennis fans like the still nascent but ever-building rivalry between the world’s two best men’s players: Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic. They’ve played four times; each has won twice. Alcaraz came out on top after their five-set thriller in this year’s Wimbledon final, though Djokovic got his revenge a few weeks ago in Cincinnati, winning what many are calling the best non-major match in ages in three relentlessly tight sets. The world’s number-one ranking, currentl…

If you’re a tennis fan, you already know about Ben Shelton—at least since the early hours of this morning, around 12:30 a.m., when, with his electrifying victory over that other American phenom, Frances Tiafoe, Shelton bought himself a place in the semifinals of the U.S. Open. (Shelton plays 23-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic on Friday.) If, however, you’re just hearing about him now—well, buckle up. It’s been a wild ride for the 20-year-old since turning pro a mere year ago, when he was…

It’s been an Open for the ages—and for the Americans, with Coco Gauff and Ben Shelton locking in their places in the semifinals on Tuesday, and 17th-seeded Madison Keys joining the club last night with her upset (and lopsided) win over ninth-seeded Marketa Vondrousova. Tonight, the women play both semifinal matches, starting at 7pm ET, with Gauff, the sixth seed, squaring off against 10th-seeded Karolina Muchova, followed by Keys vs. second-seeded (and new world number one) Aryna Sabalenka. What…

It wasn’t yesterday’s rollercoaster comeback—and the straight-sets score might make it look like it was easy, which it certainly wasn’t—but it seemed like nothing was about to get between Novak Djokovic and the US Open title in New York. With both Djokovic and Daniil Medvedev battling fatigue and exhaustion amidst epic, closely fought rallies (including an 104-minute second set in which, at one point, Medvedev served for the set at 6-5), it was Djokovic who came out on top, 6-3, 7-6, 6-3. Upon w…

Think of the new Netflix film about David Beckham as a UK-centric, documentary version of Friday Night Lights: Come for the football, stay for the soap-opera-level drama—or vice versa, as per your preference. Directed by Fisher Stevens—yes, if you didn’t already know, the hapless Hugo from Succession has also had a wildly successful career as a writer, producer, and Oscar-winning documentary director—Beckham is a four-hour, four-part, no-holds-barred examination of a simple London-born kid who g…

Let’s save some time here: Is there any real need, in the year 2023, to explain that meditation is good for you? That a regular practice of sitting still and quiet and clearing the mind, in one way or another, amidst a world filled with more and more distractions, from the micro to the macro, each of them seemingly demanding our attention 24/7, is probably helpful, welcome, soothing, beneficial, and all the other good things? You’ve tried it, yes? I sure have. No, I’ve more than tried it—I’ve do…

Since 1995, Chan Marshall, a.k.a. Cat Power, has released 11 full-length albums—eight of them featuring her own songs and three consisting of covers of other artists’ work—toured the world, soundtracked Chanel shows for her friend Karl Lagerfeld, acted opposite Jude Law, played a postal worker in a Doug Aitken MoMA installation, and received the sort of critical acclaim musicians and artists dream of. One year ago, when given the opportunity to play one night at London’s legendary Royal Albert H…