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Sports Central December 30, 2008 Mert Ertunga |
The Overlooked Importance of College Tennis No matter how great you are in juniors, unless you become a top-100 player in the world before your senior year in high school, opt to play college tennis! |
Sports Central January 7, 2015 Mert Ertunga |
Thoughts on Tennis Parenting Recently, the issue of "tennis parenting," a term used for parents whose kids who play competitive tennis, has resurfaced within the last month. |
Sports Central March 21, 2006 Mert Ertunga |
Empathy For Borg? Bjorn Borg is no longer the icon he was once upon a time, but he needs no empathy. |
Sports Central July 27, 2005 Tom Kosinski |
The Williams Effect, or Lack Thereof... The public parks tennis program, once a thriving portion of the industry, has been looked to of late as the savior of the United States Tennis Association and the impetus for a whole new generation of tennis players nationwide. |
Sports Central August 19, 2005 Tom Kosinski |
2005 U.S. Open: Admission is Free! Just about every professional sport has a minor league of some kind, and each costs you admission. Well, not tennis -- at least not before the major tournaments. For the cost of transportation to Flushing Meadows, you can see some of the best tennis you will ever see for free. |
Sports Central October 7, 2004 Mert Ertunga |
Tennis Offseason Reading Picks No tennis to watch? Then read about the game. Tennis books are secret gems that most tennis fans choose to ignore. Here are four worth a trip to the bookstore or library. |
Salon.com April 18, 2000 Steve Kettmann |
Martina Navratilova The most daring player in the history of tennis, her attacking style and superb athleticism revolutionized the sport... |
Sports Central March 24, 2005 Tom Kosinski |
Tennis Angels, Yes; Steroids, No You won't find widespread use of any performance enhancing drugs in tennis -- for a list of sound reasons. And a lot of them are the sport's women athletes, who play at the same competitive level as men. Especially the "Tennis Angels," who are four of the top 200 players in the world! |
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. |
Registered Rep. October 22, 2014 Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
How to Get An Athletic Scholarship Here are seven things advisors should share with clients who believe athleticism is the way to cover college costs. |
Salon.com July 11, 2000 Larry Platt |
John McEnroe His combination of talent and temperament worked hand in hand, exploding on the court and turning tennis into performance art. |
Sports Central February 18, 2013 Mert Ertunga |
Five Questions With Pat Cash For most tennis fans, Pat Cash, the 1987 Wimbledon winner, member of multiple Australian Davis Cup teams in the 1980s, and former top-five player, needs no introduction. |
Sports Illustrated August 28, 2002 Frank Deford |
Tennis takes a turn European players are soccer-izing the men's game. |
Sports Central March 18, 2006 Tom Kosinski |
Roddick and USTA, I Told You So! Andy Roddick has potential that will never be realized. |
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. |
AskMen.com January 21, 2013 Gray Miles |
Revisiting The Sport Of Your Youth Serious, committed tennis seemed like a sport for oldsters, or for snotty country club douchebags, or for scholarship students from the Eastern Bloc. That's the way I thought about it for a long time. |
Sports Central October 22, 2007 Tom Kosinski |
The USTA ... Made in China? The popularity of foreign tennis players and the great games they currently have accounts for the growth in USTA membership and record-setting U.S. Open attendance. |
Sports Central June 6, 2007 Tom Kosinski |
How to Revive U.S. Men's Tennis The American men are mediocre at best. |
Sports Central October 20, 2008 Mert Ertunga |
Radical Rule Changes For Tennis Suggestions for changing the rules for tennis include letting fans yell after a good shot and moving the service line closer to the net by an inch. |
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 November 19, 2007 Mert Ertunga |
Tennis Match-Fixing? Don't Believe It In tennis, where theoretically it would be easy to seduce a player into a fixed match, in actuality very little of it goes on, if any. |
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 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 Central December 6, 2006 Will Tidey |
A Gift From God His glittering solo career may have redefined the game of tennis, but that is only one of many areas upon which Arthur Ashe left his mark. |
Sports Central March 2, 2012 Kevin Beane |
Trying Times For American Tennis I've been following tennis since I was a kid, but mostly as a passive observer. Then I came to realize that tennis is a good sport for someone who likes sports gluttony. |
Sports Illustrated September 6, 2001 Frank Deford |
Showtime Women's tennis looks ready for prime time... |
Sports Illustrated August 5, 2002 Jon Wertheim |
No glam, all game Belgium's Kim Clijsters is one of the few players armed with the weapons and blessed with the physique to topple the Williams dynasty. Clijsters has found a way to be a top player without turning every match into a blood feud. |
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 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 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 September 23, 2003 Tom Kosinski |
The Tennis Sky is Gray I never would have guessed that as I sat on the north practice court watching Andy Roddick with coach Brad Gilbert that I would be watching American tennis history in the making. |
AskMen.com |
Wimbledon Women If ever the ladies at this year's Wimbledon wanted to get out of tennis and take up a career in modeling, it wouldn't be too difficult. As a matter of fact, many of them are models on the side already. |
Sports Central March 30, 2004 Mert Ertunga |
Tennis Needs to Eliminate "Dull Season" What does this so-called "dull season" offer the average sports fan? Unfortunately, very little to nothing! |
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 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 Illustrated June 11, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
French Open fallout Some leftover dust particles from Roland Garros... |
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 May 31, 2010 Tom Kosinski |
Venus Williams at the French, Oooh La La! Venus Williams' outfit at the French Open is more appropriate for Playboy magazine then for the tennis court. |
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 April 22, 2014 Mert Ertunga |
From the Tennis Industry: PACIFIC Aiming Higher Having acquired Fischer Racquet Division in 2009, PACIFIC today is a full-range supplier and one of the major players in the string and racket industry. |
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 Illustrated December 4, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
Filling the void in New York Now that the women's tour has pulled the incredibly boneheaded -- boy, that's a surprise, tennis administrators being boneheads -- move of going to Germany for the year-ending tournament, what's the chance of the men coming back to New York? |
Sports Illustrated June 25, 2002 |
Wimble-done? Point-counterpoint: One writer says modern rackets and a scarcity of grass events weaken the tournament's cachet. Another says it's time to celebrate a surface that makes everyone equal and defines the elite. |
Sports Central March 19, 2015 Mert Ertunga |
Notes From Indian Wells and the Pro Tour As the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells approaches its final weekend, the first quarter of the 2015 tennis season is coming to its conclusion. |
Sports Central January 4, 2010 Mert Ertunga |
Tennis' Decade of Recovery This past decade was not only a decade of recovery, but also a decade that put forth solid foundation for what could possibly be the second golden age of tennis. |
Sports Central March 28, 2007 Mert Ertunga |
The Strangest Oddities in Tennis Certain oddities in tennis do not get much media space or time. Here are a few examples. |
Sports Illustrated September 11, 2001 L. Jon Wertheim |
Too-Big Mac Enough, already! John McEnroe's mighty mouth threatens to devour tennis... |
Sports Central August 28, 2007 Tom Kosinski |
U.S. Open: What a Difference a Year Makes Everything at this year's Open seems more polished. |
Sports Central September 6, 2005 Mert Ertunga |
Are Women Playing at the U.S. Open? The women's draw so far has consisted of bunch of matches, under an hour long, without much excitement. The big names have consistently outplayed their opponents, only stopping short of collecting an hourly fee for a tennis lesson, when they shake their hapless opponents' hands at the end of the matches. |
AskMen.com Christopher Hunt |
Miami Open Four things that really annoy tennis players. |