Roger Federer wins Australian Open in a dramatic fifth set…

Roger Federer won his 18th career Grand Slam, beating longtime rival Rafael Nadal in an epic five-set match at the Australian Open, and enhancing Federer’s case as the greatest men’s tennis play of all time. After Federer won the opening set 6-4, the pair traded three ho-hum sets to force a fifth and deciding set.

Serena vs Venus: a Williams Sibling Rivalry Worth $116M

Serena and Venus Williams’ match this Saturday in the 2017 Australian Open final is not your average sibling rivalry – it is also a clash of two of the tennis world’s most lucrative brands. For Venus, 36, the match in Melbourne marks an opportunity to score an upset victory in a long-running duel.

USTA hopes Orlando campus can ignite youths’ tennis interest

Technology is the kind of perk the tennis industry hopes will help stoke interest as the U.S. Tennis Association opens its 64-acre national campus this week in southeast Orlando’s burgeoning Lake Nona development. With five cameras perched over each of dozens of courts, players at the nation’s largest tennis training center can instantly post footage of their best drop shot to Snapchat and Twitter.

Ice rinks across the country fight enemy No. 1: Energy bills

A small community skating rink that was once in danger of folding is working on a long-term plan to eliminate its biggest single expense – its energy bill – by becoming what its leaders believe would be the country’s first with no costs for electricity or heating fuel. The plan includes upgrading the existing equipment at Woodstock’s Union Arena for efficiency, finding ways to reuse some of the heat generated by the power-sucking compressors used to make ice and, finally, buying solar panels that will be erected elsewhere.