Start with the name: Guga. Then, the hair, a big bush of dirty-blond curls. The irrepressible smile. The joy he brought to the task of a grueling tennis match. The whipping, next-generation forehand ...

Gustavo Kuerten could be the superstar tennis needs, if only he would try. Kuerten has a mop of floppy curls and the sad eyes and sweet smile of a lonely poet. He has a nickname, Guga. The girls love ...

The first week of the French Open is all about upsets—which high seeds will go home early? With that in mind, we're counting down the five most stunning Roland Garros results from Monday, May 28 ...

There were only a handful of tennis courts in Gustavo Kuerten's hometown of Florianopolis when he was growing up, but rising from those modest beginnings, Kuerten carved out a lasting legacy and ...

PARIS – The face of Brazilian tennis no longer is able to smile on a court. Gustavo Kuerten can't play the game he loves — and that, for years, loved him back. He retired from the tour for good in ...

Gustavo Kuerten has backed Roger Federer's decision to withdraw from Roland Garros, saying the Swiss made a "wise" move. Federer pulled out of the French Open on Sunday, a day after winning his ...

You might have seen video of Novak Djokovic pulling out a new impersonation a couple of weeks ago and wondered what it was all about. If you're a newcomer to the tennis scene, perhaps drawn in by the ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of TENNIS Magazine's founding in 1965. To commemorate the occasion, we'll look back each Thursday at one of the 50 moments that have defined the last half-century ...

Gustavo Kuerten and a few other Brazilian athletes have come together to try and raise 10 million Brazilian Real, which would go towards helping 35,000 Brazilian families affected by the COVID-19 ...

PARIS -- As Gustavo Kuerten spit out the bit as well as the dirt and went on to grind Alex Corretja into mounds of the identical swirling stuff on Sunday, it was easy to see why American tennis ...

Novak Djokovic and Gustavo Kuerten competed Sunday in a charity soccer match in Brazil Both scored goals Whilte in Rio, Djokovic also opened a tennis court in a Rio slum and beat Kuerten in an ...