Welcome back to the Monday Tennis Briefing, where The Athletic will explain the stories behind the stories from the past week on court. This week, the best match point of 2025 descended into chaos, ...

“Match Point” is being heralded as a return to form for Woody Allen, which means anyone who doesn’t like it is likely to be accused of not bowing low enough at the altar. And the picture is crisply ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... INTERVIEW It didn’t take much Method acting for Jonathan Rhys-Meyers to show awe at the lifestyles of England’s super-rich for the new Woody Allen movie ...

No.1 seed Jelena Ostapenko saved one match point en route to a remarkable comeback in the second round of the Upper Austria Ladies Linz, defeating qualifier Clara Tauson 3-6, 6-4, 7-6(7) in 2 hours ...

There are those who will take the opportunity to elevate “Match Point” to instant classic status and those who will damn it with faint praise — yet both will do so by saying the same thing: “Woody ...

After Match Point debuted at Cannes, the word spread that this was a different kind of Woody Allen film than what he'd been making lately—more polished, more assured, and, believe it or not, a ...

The buzz from the American press about Match Point is almost intoxicating. Can it really be true that our country, our capital city, and the film production company created by our national broadcaster ...

What's it like to walk down Cannes' red carpet with Woody and Scarlett? And to turn down an invite to Dennis Hopper's yacht? Match Point producer Lucy Darwin tells all. For his new film, Match Point, ...

In recent years, Woody Allen’s movies have grown encrusted with mannerism, set less inside the real world than in the twee Upper East Side of his mind. Now he has rediscovered himself, and reality, ...