This week on Tennis Channel, we're looking back some of the sport's most important players, personalities and moments throughout its colorful history. On Thursday, from 12-3 p.m. ET, Tennis Channel ...

On this final day of 1977, Vitas Gerulaitis was delighted to see his prophecy had come true. That morning in Melbourne, Gerulaitis prepared to play the final of the Australian Open. These were the ...

Vitas Gerulaitis once held up Martina Navratilova as an example to express his firm opposition to women receiving equal prize money as men. During the 1984 US Open, Gerulaitis controversially claimed ...

Vitas Gerulaitis was once the golden boy of tennis. It began with his hair, a golden mane that fell to and over his shoulders. It included the yellow Rolls Royce he drove to wherever his fast-lane ...

Before a tennis player’s backhand can dominate the world, it needs development. Before a legend’s footwork is fundamentally sound enough to dash side-to-side on the French Open’s clay, it needs ...

Port Washington has had a hidden gem in its midst for the past 50 years. The Port Washington Tennis Academy (PWTA) is a nonprofit teaching facility that has taught tennis greats including Tracy Austin ...

This will come into play when the score has reached 6-6 and will offer victory to the first player to score 10 points and to be leading by at least two points. The Australian Open is thus now on the ...

Gasquet takes on Nadal in the French Open third round but odds are stacked against the Frenchman after losing all 15 of their previous meetings. The late Vitas Gerulaitis lost 16 consecutive matches ...

Britain's Davis Cup team play this weekend at the Vitas Gerulaitis Memorial Tennis Centre in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius, hence my colleague Paul Newman's fascinating feature in these pages ...

John McEnroe had a glittering tennis career that saw him win seven Grand Slam singles titles, among other accolades. The American's maiden Major singles title came at the 1979 US Open. Seeded third, ...