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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 Central December 21, 2006 Tom Kosinski |
Fifth Annual Tennis Christmas Wish List Saint Nick was pretty good to me last year, and most of my wish list materialized. Hopefully, he'll be just as generous this year. |
Sports Central December 5, 2005 Tom Kosinski |
Welcome Back, Martina, We Missed You! Martina Hingis announced her return to the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour. |
Sports Central March 9, 2010 Tom Kosinski |
Tennis, Economic, or Player Recession? I've discussed the current world economic situation and its effect on the professional tennis industry here many times. |
Sports Illustrated June 5, 2001 S.L. Price |
Venus Falling As the star-starved French Open showed, the women's game is suddenly in a swoon... |
Sports Central September 1, 2009 Tom Kosinski |
Tennis and Parenthood: Perfect Together? The return of Kim Clijsters to high level, professional tennis after having a child is not unheard of, and her return has been in keeping with her recent contemporaries. |
Sports Central December 16, 2008 Tom Kosinski |
2008 Tennis Christmas Wish List Dear Santa, I have been relatively good this year, even though Venus and Serena are mad at me. |
Sports Central March 13, 2007 Tom Kosinski |
WTA Tour Faces Grave Challenges in U.S. The WTA Tour has done an amazing job of bringing in good sponsors and partners, all who have helped make the tour a worthwhile entertainment venture. But is the picture as rosey as it might seem? |
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 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. |
BusinessWeek March 10, 2011 Danielle Rossingh |
Women's Tennis Changes Its Game By allowing multiple sponsors, WTA aims to boost revenue. |
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 November 14, 2006 Tom Kosinski |
One Down, One to Go The curtain closed on another season of women's professional tennis, but the season was not without its controversies. |
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 3, 2003 Tom Kosinski |
Venus and Serena, Part II It seems that there are many people out there who believe that no matter what Venus and Serena do, they should get a free pass and never be called on it. |
Sports Central August 23, 2007 Tom Kosinski |
Is WTA in Middle East a Mistake? The WTA Tour's gamble on moving the championships to where the money is is a low-risk move. |
BusinessWeek June 7, 2004 Douglas Robson |
Women's Tennis: Back On Serve The stumbling women's tennis tour has begun to turn around thanks to Larry Scott, new CEO of WTA Tour Inc. |
Sports Central April 16, 2007 Tom Kosinski |
U.S. Women's Tennis: Venus or Serena? Venus and Serena Williams seem to be the U.S.' only hope on the women's tour for consistent U.S. appearances in tournament finals. |
Sports Central December 21, 2010 Tom Kosinski |
The Tennis Christmas Wish List 2010 Each year for nearly a decade, I've been creating this list as my public thoughts and feelings about where I hope the professional game will go in the coming year. |
Sports Central April 29, 2004 Tom Kosinski |
Apathy is Killing Women's Tennis The two week, joint ATP-WTA tour stop is one of the few events that rivals the grand slams and has simultaneous men's and women's tournaments. |
Sports Central November 3, 2005 Tom Kosinski |
The Future of American Women's Tennis? With such huge dollars and finances at stake, players hit the tour before they begin high school. They are younger, burning out quicker, and leaving the game without any lasting role models to sow the seeds of tennis for tomorrow. |
Sports Central August 3, 2005 Mert Ertunga |
ATP's New Doubles: A Necessary Evil In case you haven't heard, ATP is changing the format for doubles once the U.S. Open ends. And that's a good "bad thing." Here's why. |
Sports Illustrated March 26, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
More on the Williams controversy As one would expect, the Mailbag remains stuffed with questions about l'affaire Williams, a controversy that, for any number of reasons, has struck a deep and resonant chord. Your various takes were all over the map... |
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 November 25, 2003 Tom Kosinski |
Tennis Not a Top Priority For Williams Sisters Now that Serena has her Aneres clothing line (it's Serena spelled backwards, if you didn't already get it) and Venus has been seen on the runway modeling clothing inspired by her ideas, it's clear that the Williams' time on the tour is very quickly coming to an end. |
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 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 Illustrated November 4, 2002 Jon Wertheim |
Finishing first In tennis, season-long consistency is more important than winning Slams. |
Sports Central May 11, 2011 Tom Kosinski |
Where Did All the Americans Go? This week, the tennis headline on most major sports news outlets is that for the first time ever there are not American players in the top 10 of both the ATP Tour and the WTA Tour. |
Sports Illustrated November 5, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
WTA soap opera continues Even by women's tennis' impossibly high standards for absurdity, it was a bizarre week on the WTA Tour... |
Sports Central August 14, 2011 Angus Saul |
What Kind of Stuff Are You Made Of? Every tennis player you've ever seen, or ever heard of on tour, is tough as nails. |
Sports Central November 2, 2005 Ryan Ballengee |
Show Me the Money (List) The chase for the top 30 on the money list is one of the few times when the Tour season strings together. |
Sports Central May 29, 2007 Ryan Ballengee |
The PGA's Head-Scratching Scheduling The PGA Tour is making decisions that negatively impact some of their best events. |
Sports Illustrated September 30, 2002 Jon Wertheim |
GQ spread undermines women's game The WTA Tour's fingerprints are all over this. The tour has, unrepentantly, chosen to peddle the sex appeal of its players, and lately hands were being wrung over who could replace the desultory Kournikova (see: Popova, Simonya). |
Sports Central December 31, 2007 Marc James |
Sports Central's 2007 Year in Review (Pt. 2) A look back at the most memorable sports stories for the second half of 2007. |
Sports Central December 31, 2008 Ryan Ballengee |
How to Make Golf Sponsorship Work The first real gap on the PGA Tour schedule in several years has caused the media community to go on the offensive about the Tour's woes. |
Sports Central January 25, 2010 Ryan Ballengee |
The Inconvenient Ruse of the Independent Contractor There is not a single player inside of the top 35 of the Official World Golf Rankings at the Bob Hope Classic this week. |
Sports Central December 1, 2005 Ryan Ballengee |
Superstar Hypocrisy on the Tour It is hypocritical to cry out that the PGA Tour season is way too long, but then go ahead and play several more events well after the schedule ends. |
Sports Central November 30, 2007 Ryan Ballengee |
The European Tour's Global Impact The Dubai World Championship, played in November each year, will be the richest tournament in professional golf history. |
Sports Central March 3, 2005 Kevin Beane |
The Triumphant Return of Jaidee Why the European Tour runs as good a golf organization as the PGA, and for far less money. |
Sports Central December 29, 2007 Marc James |
Sports Central's 2007 Year in Review (Pt. 1) A look at the the most memorable sports stories from the first half of 2007. |
Sports Central July 12, 2006 Ryan Ballengee |
Who Were the Ad Wizards? The Western Open is officially dead. |