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Sports Illustrated July 24, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
The Hot List: July 24 Hot: Spain's Davis Cup team, Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario, Serena Williams... Not: U.S. Davis Cup team... Magnus Norman... Yevgeny Kafelnikov... Conchita Martinez |
Sports Illustrated July 24, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
Stuck in a circle No easy solution to U.S. Davis Cup problems |
Sports Illustrated July 3, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
The Hot List: July 3 Hot: Mother Nature, The Sisters Williams, Mark Philippoussis... Not: Damir Dokic, Samantha Stevenson, Jeff Tarango |
Sports Illustrated July 25, 2000 L. Jon Wertheim |
Scorecard McEnroe's outsized ego proves no match for U.S. apathy |
Sports Illustrated April 17, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
The Hot List Who's hot and who's not in the tennis world: Monica Seles... Carlos Moya... Serena Williams... Andre Agassi... etc. |
Sports Illustrated September 16, 2002 Jon Wertheim |
Pat Mac talks Davis Cup Afflicted by Davis Cup fever? We didn't think so. But Patrick McEnroe believes tennis fans might be if there were some rhyme or reason to the competition's time and season. |
Sports Central November 18, 2008 Mert Ertunga |
One Player Can Make the Difference Does one player, like Rafael Nadal, really mean that much to a team? |
Sports Illustrated February 26, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
Building the perfect player If you were to build the perfect tennis players (male and female), whose forehands, backhands, serve, net game, mental toughness, etc., would you duplicate -- i.e., who has the greatest strengths ever? |
Sports Central March 9, 2005 Mert Ertunga |
Heroism, Failure, Redemption in Davis Cup Dramatic! Sensational! Stunning! Call it what you will, there is nothing like it. The Davis Cup is not your everyday tennis tournament type of excitement, as this past weekend proved once again. |
Sports Illustrated February 5, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
Capriati's comeback is complete I see Capriati as a looming threat that no higher-seeded player will want to see in her quadrant. But let's not initiate her in the Martina Hingis-Venus Williams-Serena Williams-Davenport sorority quite yet... |
Sports Illustrated April 3, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
Hitting some turbulence Tennis Q&A: Why do you think players do so well one tournament and then do terribly in the next?... the "next Steffi"... Magnus Norman... USTA "budget shortfall"... Martina Navratilova considering competing in doubles... etc. |
Sports Central August 20, 2015 Luke Broadbent |
The Healthy State of Great British Tennis Britain has dominated track cycling, three of the last four Tour de France winners have been British and we exceeded all expectations at the London 2012 Olympics. And now, it seems, we are successful at tennis. |
Sports Illustrated December 18, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
The 2000 Baggie Awards It's that time of year again: trees, ornaments, good will, Dick Clark and, of course, the Gold Flake Open. Time to reflect on another enthralling, stranger-than-fiction year in professional tennis with the third annual Baggie Awards... |
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 Illustrated December 10, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
En francais It's been a good month for Guy Forget. A week after captaining France to a Davis Cup triumph against Australia, Forget collected another title of his own on Sunday when he served 21 aces on the way to a 7-5, 6-7 (5), 11-9 victory over Petr Korda in a seniors tournament in London... |
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 Illustrated April 11, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
Davis Cup on the mind Tennis Q&A: Pete Sampras... clay court?... cheerleaders and music added to the sport of tennis... etc. |
Sports Illustrated November 27, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
The Hot List Hot: U.S. Fed Cup team, Tim Henman, Thomas Johansson, Jonas Froberg... Not: Thomas Enqvist, Juan Carlos Ferrero, Goran Ivanisevic... |
Sports Illustrated July 17, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
It's the Williamses' mailbag ... The Williams Show seems to have been given a second season. What are the chances that Serena and Venus will seek out proper coaching now and fine-tune their games so that their father's prediction of them ranking 1 and 2 really can come true? |
Sports Illustrated July 29, 2002 Jon Wertheim |
Incentive plan What motivates the Williams sisters? |
Sports Illustrated October 30, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
The Hot List Hot: Martina Hingis, Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Thomas Enqvist, Daja Bedanova, Anna Kournikova... Not: Marat Safin, Magnus Norman, Anne-Gaelle, Pete Sampras... |
Sports Illustrated April 3, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
The Hot List Who's hot and who's not in the tennis world: Pete Sampras... Martina Hingis... Serena Williams... Venus Williams... Anna Kournikova... etc. |
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 May 6, 2002 Jon Wertheim |
Battle of the sexes Which gender has the more appealing tennis game? |
Sports Illustrated June 18, 2002 Jon Wertheim |
Sampras may be spent A few of you asked what I make of Sampras' epochal collapse, and I honestly don't know. It's not as though he is losing to elite players and simply relinquishing his grip to Generation Next. |
Sports Illustrated July 22, 2002 Jon Wertheim |
Hardly an epidemic Steroid use is not a huge problem in tennis. |
Sports Illustrated May 27, 2002 Jon Wertheim |
Remembered in song There are many tunes devoted to tennis stars... |
Sports Illustrated August 7, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
Getting blitzed by Venus Well, last week yours truly got an earful from Venus Williams, who chastised me -- good naturedly, with a smile on her face, I hasten to add -- for being "too negative" and "too sarcastic." |
Sports Illustrated April 30, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
Sowing the seeds of a controversy What do you make of the Wimbledon seeding controversy?... Sampras's loss to Andy Roddick maybe wasn't such an upset after all... etc. |
Sports Illustrated February 12, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
Johnny Mac to the rescue? I believe John McEnroe should have been selected to play Davis Cup to generate some interest from viewers like me. It would have been great. Big names are what the event needs, right? |
Sports Central October 5, 2010 Mert Ertunga |
Guy Forget and France Face Big Challenge On the first weekend of December, Serbia and France will meet in Belgrade Arena for a showdown to determine the winner of 2010 Davis Cup. |
Sports Illustrated October 19, 2000 Gary Van Sickle |
Presidents Cup pluses The Ryder Cup could stand to borrow a few ideas from its half-brother, the Presidents Cup. The daily draft during which the Presidents Cup captains match up the next round's pairings is a fun dose of strategy, part golf, part chess... |
Sports Illustrated May 16, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
Courier's legacy Tennis Q&A: career of Jim Courier, who retired last week... Advice for Pete Sampras... Jennifer Capriati... Why are Marat Safin's best results on clay?... etc. |
Sports Illustrated June 25, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
It's all about grass It is completely counterintuitive that tennis' "magical fortnight," as some put it, its most esteemed event, is played on the most anomalous and rare surface. But that's the way it goes: Wimbledon is the Rose Bowl of tennis... |
Sports Illustrated August 28, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
The Hot List: Aug. 28 Hot: Magnus Norman, Venus Williams, Pete Sampras... Not: The USTA... Goran Ivanisevic... Carlos Moya... Andre Agassi... |
Sports Central February 10, 2004 Mert Ertunga |
Everyone Cares But the U.S. The Davis Cup is big news in almost all the countries that send teams there. |
Sports Illustrated August 29, 2000 Walter Bingham |
Teeing Off: Our Cups Runneth Over For the top U.S. Tour pros, the Presidents Cup is one team event too many |
Sports Illustrated March 27, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
Most memorable matches of the '90s Tennis Q&A: five best matches of the 1990s... least amount of talent?... etc. |
Sports Central April 11, 2012 Mert Ertunga |
U.S. Marching on Against All Odds When USA Davis Cup team began last Friday their encounter against the French, it was almost like a flashback to two months ago. |
Sports Illustrated February 19, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
Agassi vs. Mac Would John McEnroe have beaten Andre Agassi if they played when both were in their primes? |
Sports Illustrated June 26, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
London calling Questions answered: Has Martina Hingis created her own worst enemy in Mary Pierce? Will Pete Sampras choke? Is Arvind Parmar the real deal?... |
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 Illustrated July 10, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
The Hot List: July 10 Hot: Pete Sampras, Venus Williams, Pat Rafter... Not: Mark Philippoussis, Richard Williams, Natasha Zvereva |
Sports Illustrated July 30, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
Full of smarts and charisma Now that Anke Huber has announced her retirement, I want to assess her career. She started out so well early on but was dogged by constant comparisons to Steffi Graf. Do you think those expectations ultimately derailed her career, which included just one Grand Slam final? |
Sports Illustrated November 20, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
Tag-team tennis? With all apologies to the traditionalists at Wimbledon, I'm all for a WWF-style version of tennis, at least for promotional purposes. Matches would be played as singles, but tag-team style, with players able to bail out and switch with their partners when in need of "help"... |
Sports Illustrated June 20, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
Breaking down the Wimbledon draw Our writer peers into his crystal ball to reveal the fate of the top 16 men's seeds for Wimbledon. Scroll down to see the first-round matches you shouldn't miss, some darkhorse candidates to advance to Week 2, and his championship predictions... |
Sports Illustrated August 8, 2000 Alan Shipnuck |
The Hot List: Aug. 8 Such a pleasant weekend of golf, so we here at the Hot List have decided to drop the Nots for a week. Hot are Ernie Els... Greg Norman's body... The Ryder Cup... Lee Westwood... Lorie Kane... |
Sports Illustrated October 24, 2000 Alan Shipnuck |
The Hot List: Oct. 24 Special Presidents Cup edition... Hot: The Stars and Stripes, Stewey Cink, Kirk Triplett, Davis Love III... Not: Ernie Els, Vijay Singh, Greg Norman, The haka, Ken Venturi... |
Sports Illustrated November 20, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
The Hot List Hot: Martina Hingis, Marat Safin, Anne Kremer, Elena Dementieva... Not: Richard Williams, John McEnroe, Andre Agassi, Lindsay Davenport... |
Sports Illustrated February 28, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
Lendl doesn't quite measure up Your tennis questions |