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Sports Central July 12, 2006 Ricky Dimon |
Bryan Brothers Shine On and Off Court The Bryan Brothers have now won the Australian Open, French Open, U.S. Open, and Wimbledon in doubles, a part of professional tennis of whose existence most sports fans - and even some tennis fans - are probably unaware. |
Sports Central August 9, 2010 Mert Ertunga |
Eyes on Doubles This Week in Toronto This week will be the first time since the summer of 1976 when Jimmy Connors and Arthur Ashe played as a doubles team twice, that the number one and two singles players in the world, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic, will team together to play doubles in Rogers Cup in Toronto. |
Sports Central September 15, 2008 Luke Broadbent |
The Death of Doubles Tennis? Long gone are the days when the top players in the world would participate in doubles tournaments on a regular basis. |
Sports Illustrated March 19, 2002 Jon Wertheim |
Doubling up with Todd Woodbridge From his position on the forehand side, Australia's Todd Woodbridge has established himself as, arguably, the best doubles player the sport has known... |
Sports Central December 11, 2011 Angus Saul |
The Davis World Cup? Rumors have been circulating for a while now. Among the fans. Among the players. The Davis Cup has lost meaning! The format is redundant, even irrelevant in today's world. The tennis world is calling out for change! |
Sports Central December 19, 2005 Tom Kosinski |
A Tennis Christmas '05 Wish List A WTA Tour Tier I tournament for Buenos Aires... More e-mail from WTA Tour players... Any e-mail from the ATP Tour players... etc. |
Sports Illustrated April 16, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
Making it easier to double down The ATP Tour's move to increase the number of top singles players in the doubles draw has generated some controversy, especially among doubles specialists who feel threatened with banishment from la vida tennis. Who wouldn't want to see marquee players spend more time on the court? |
Sports Central October 8, 2005 Mert Ertunga |
The Never-Ending Sagas Are Back So, it's that time of the year -- things are slow around the tennis world. Really slow! |
Sports Central June 10, 2006 Tom Kosinski |
Time For Another Battle of the Sexes? In tennis, the controversy over equal prize money for the sexes continues. |
Sports Central November 23, 2010 Mert Ertunga |
Once Upon a Time on Fast Courts Is the plug being pulled too soon on fast courts? |
Sports Central June 11, 2013 Brad Oremland |
Who is the Best Female Tennis Player of All-Time? In my mind, there are three players who merit serious consideration as the Greatest Of All Time: Serena Williams, Martina Navratilova, and Steffi Graf. |
Sports Central December 3, 2014 Mert Ertunga |
In Defense of Arnaud Clement Clement did carry them to the finals and the French need to understand that for one weekend in November, they faced a Swiss team that had superior skills. |
Sports Central June 13, 2012 Brad Oremland |
Sharapova, Errani, and the French Open Maria Sharapova completed a career Grand Slam on Saturday. Two or three years ago, I never would have believed it. |
Sports Illustrated April 23, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
Time off would serve Hingis well Is Martina Hingis playing so often just to preserve her ranking?... Tour might be best served to scrap doubles altogether... etc. |
Sports Central June 16, 2011 Tom Kosinski |
Will Wimbledon Determine Who is Greatest Ever? Immediately following the French Open final, the debate began in earnest again about Roger Federer being declared the best tennis player of all-time. |
Sports Central February 3, 2015 Mert Ertunga |
Leaving the Australian Open Behind The Australian Open provided enough thrills throughout the two-week long tennis festival, and concluded with Serena Williams and Novak Djokovic confirming their statuses as the best players on their respective tours. |
Sports Central October 26, 2010 Tom Kosinski |
Is the Tennis Season Too Long? The tennis season is way too long. Just like basketball, hockey, and baseball (the World Series hasn't even started yet and it's the end of October) tennis has become just another drawn out non-spectacle. |
Sports Central December 12, 2005 Tom Kosinski |
Home For the Holidays With Gisela Dulko Gisela Dulko is one of the true rising stars of the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour. |
Sports Illustrated July 15, 2002 Jon Wertheim |
Saving American tennis Demanding more accountability from the good folks in White Plains. |
AskMen.com Jennifer Cox |
8 Questions With Ana Ivanovic An interview with Serbian tennis player Ana Ivanovic. |
Sports Central May 10, 2006 Mert Ertunga |
Tennis Fan Looking For a Vacation? If you want to mix tennis tournaments into your vacation plans this summer, you have several wonderful locations to choose from. And it is not as expensive as you think. |
Sports Central September 10, 2008 Tom Kosinski |
Smile, Mirka, Roger Won the U.S. Open! A recap of stories surrounding the the 2008 U.S. Open. |
Salon.com August 10, 2000 Diane Seo |
The tennis world's new cover boys With Sampras and Agassi aging, men's tennis hopes to excite fans with a fresh crop of young men and a ballsy new ad campaign. |
Sports Central August 22, 2005 Dave Golokhov |
I Hate Mondays: Tennis in Toronto Belgium is a country known for charming chocolates and bewitching beers. Now you can add women's tennis to that list. The final match of the Sony Ericsson WTA tournament featured the only two Belgian females entered in the women's singles draw. |
Sports Central August 24, 2004 Tom Kosinski |
An Olympian Effort ... Viva Le Chile! Tennis is a sport dominated by great hand-eye coordination, innate timing, impressive physical conditioning, and incredible heart. Few sports, maybe none, can match the influence of heart and soul on the outcome of play more then tennis. |
Sports Illustrated August 28, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
Bryans are twice the fun Twins Mike and Bob Bryan were stunned by their identical fate when the pairings for the 2001 U.S. Open were announced. Placed in the same quadrant, they both drew former champions -- and, arguably, the two favorites to win the event -- in the first round... |
Sports Central April 9, 2013 Mert Ertunga |
The U.S. vs. Serbia Davis Cup Tie Aftermath It's not unthinkable that Serbia would defeat the U.S.A, but that the world's number one ranked doubles team Bob and Mike Bryan twins, would lose on Saturday to a doubles tandem composed of Nenad Zimonjic and some guy named Ilija Bozoljac. |
Sports Central July 28, 2009 Tom Kosinski |
Is Professional Tennis Dying? What is going on behind the scenes of the professional tours and the professional tennis industry? |
Sports Central December 26, 2013 Mert Ertunga |
The Greatest Player of All-Time Debate Is it Rod Laver, Pete Sampras, Bjorn Borg, Rafael Nadal, or Roger Federer? Will Novak Djokovic soon be added to the list? In any case, the Greatest of All-Time debate has been alive since the mid-1990s. |
Sports Illustrated March 25, 2002 Jon Wertheim |
Hewitt on and off the court After Lleyton Hewitt's 6-1, 6-2 drubbing of Tim Henman at Indian Wells, I'm left wondering: Without the help of chicken pox -- or Nicolas Escude and a grass court -- how do you beat this guy? |
Sports Illustrated May 9, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
Me, myself and tennis What is this attitude about Martina Navratilova playing doubles again?... Lindsay Davenport or Martina Hingis?... Jensen brothers... etc. |
Sports Illustrated August 18, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
Frustrations for Davenport What's going on with Lindsay Davenport? The top-ranked American woman dominated the Australian Open and then ran the table at Indian Wells in March. But she hasn't won a tournament since... |
Sports Illustrated July 16, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
The good and bad of Ivanisevic I was happy to see Goran Ivanisevic finally win Wimbledon until I saw his post-match news conference, during which he referred to a linesman as a "faggot." Why doesn't the press call him on his bigotry? |
Sports Central May 20, 2005 Mert Ertunga |
Istanbul Cup: The First, Hopefully Not Last The Istanbul Cup is drawing much interest from fans, media, and sponsors. |
Sports Illustrated August 14, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
Back with some bite Are you a tennis junkie?... Eric Van Harpen is out as Anna Kournikova's coach... 10 suggested ATP Tour slogans that were rejected in favor of New Balls, Please... etc. |
Sports Illustrated July 8, 2002 Jon Wertheim |
Wrapping up Wimbledon Some random ruminations from a random Wimbledon. |
Sports Illustrated April 1, 2002 Jon Wertheim |
Wrapping up the Nasdaq-100 Why isn't the Nasdaq-100 officially elevated to Grand Slam No. 5 status? Unlike all other non-Grand Slams, it has the same number of rounds as the other four major tournaments... |
Sports Illustrated July 23, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
A tennis-book wish list My friend and I were checking out the WTA Tour message boards the other day and came across a thread on the "World's Shortest Tennis Books"... |
Sports Illustrated July 9, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
Venus, Goran come through I haven't watched too much tennis until this year, but after following the French Open and the first two days of Wimbledon, I can truly say how ugly the game of men's tennis is when it's played on grass... |
Sports Central July 4, 2006 Tom Kosinski |
Cinderella and Cinderfella at Wimbledon Severine Bremond rose from a ranking of 100 to take out the three top seeds this year and Marcus Baghdatis has had a great, albeit surprising, run thus far in 2006. |
Sports Central October 2, 2009 Luke Broadbent |
Is India an Emerging Tennis Force? India may well become a superpower on the political scene, but it's also a real possibility that India could soon be amongst tennis' elite. |
Sports Illustrated January 22, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
No rest for the best While the women's game overall has improved immensely, I'm consistently frustrated by the fact that the top players (with the exception of the amazing yet annoying Wiliams sisters) have failed to round out their games... |
Sports Central January 17, 2013 Mert Ertunga |
Absurdity Surrounds the Time Rule When the ATP announced that it would begin to enforce the rule in regards to the time allowed to players between the points, anyone who recently became a tennis fan probably thought it was bizarre. |
Sports Central January 12, 2011 Mert Ertunga |
Everyday Tennis Clubhouse Moments Clubhouse moments represent by a wide margin the primary connection of today's tennis fan with the sport that he/she loves. |
Sports Central November 28, 2012 Mert Ertunga |
Stellar 2012 Season Had a Few Low Points 2012 will go down as one of the best tennis seasons in the history of the game. On the men's side, we witnessed the confirmation of what many have accurately predicted back at the end of the previous decade: the next Golden Age of Men's Tennis is here. |
Sports Illustrated September 11, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
Safin has a good shot at No. 1 Rating the courts of the Slam venues... Prognosticating on the future rivalries in tennis... |
Sports Illustrated June 10, 2002 Jon Wertheim |
Capriati is at a loss There are a million cheap shots I'll avoid making at J-Cap's expense (being in Paris makes one softer than brie). But let's just say that she hasn't exactly grasped the nuances of the rankings system. |
Sports Central January 26, 2007 Mert Ertunga |
Just Say No to On-Court Tennis Coaching On-court coaching alters everything about the nature of the tennis match. |
Sports Central December 18, 2009 Tom Kosinski |
2009 Tennis Christmas Wish List Other than the couple of charity events that go on during this time, professional tennis has taken a break. For tennis fans, this is about the loneliest time of the year. |
Sports Central October 16, 2004 Tom Kosinski |
Tennis: A Year (Almost) in Review The best (and worst) of the 2004 tennis season. |