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Sports Central
February 27, 2012
Tom Kosinski |
Is Sharapova the Next Kournikova? This morning, Maria Sharapova sits at No. 2 in the world in women's professional tennis. It's a fitting position given her exceptional performance at the Australian Open, making it to the final, and her runner-up finish at the 2011 All England Lawn Tennis Championships.   |
Sports Central
October 21, 2011
Luke Broadbent |
WTA Tour Championships Preview Caroline Wozniacki and Maria Sharapova became the first players to book their place in the Tour Championships. Being the first to secure a spot is always impressive, but even more so considering neither of them won a slam in 2011. |
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 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
July 2, 2003
S.L. Price |
Inside Tennis: Youth Movement Maria Sharapova was the latest 16-year-old to take Wimbledon by storm. But where will she be in a few years? |
Sports Central
June 9, 2009
Luke Broadbent |
Nadia Petrova's Struggle Why Nadia Petrova hasn't fulfilled the potential she displayed when she broke onto the scene, as well as the reason why she will always be in the shadow of her fellow Russians. |
Sports Central
January 22, 2008
Tom Kosinski |
End of an Era, Beginning of Another? Tennis is truly the international game, and as the political and financial climate has changed, so too the top of the game of tennis. |
Sports Central
December 28, 2005
Mert Ertunga |
Best and Worst of WTA Tour in 2005 One final look at the 2005 season, especially considering the ATP version published on Sports Central last month turned out to draw so much reader feedback. |
Sports Central
June 29, 2011
Luke Broadbent |
Tennis Has No Need For a Leading Lady A lot is made of the fact that women's tennis lacks big names that consistently come to the fore. |
Sports Central
October 28, 2008
Tom Kosinski |
Jankovic Finishes No. 1, But Should She? Several of the tennis elite feel Jelena Jankovic's No. 1 ranking is wrong. |
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
September 14, 2010
Luke Broadbent |
Wozniacki's U.S. Open in Perspective The absence of Serena Williams at this year's U.S. Open meant that Caroline Wozniacki, the world No. 2, was installed as the No. 1 seed. |
Sports Central
August 28, 2006
Tom Kosinski |
On-Court Coaching: Good For Tennis? The move to on-court coaching was solely to try to silence the Sharapovas in the stands and get some control over what both the tour and the players already know is happening illegally. |
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
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
April 7, 2014
Mert Ertunga |
Fresh Faces For the WTA After years of Serena Williams' supremacy and the duo of Victoria Azarenka and Maria Sharapova specializing in failed attempts to dethrone the American, the WTA desperately needs an injection of new and fresh faces into the spotlight. |
Sports Central
August 14, 2007
Tom Kosinski |
U.S. Open Series: Is it Serious? This is turning out to be the summer of Serbs. |
Sports Central
October 16, 2004
Tom Kosinski |
Tennis: A Year (Almost) in Review The best (and worst) of the 2004 tennis season. |
Sports Central
October 3, 2011
Tom Kosinski |
Fall is Here, So is the End of Tennis Season Here's to hoping the fall will mean better things for us all in tennis next year. |
Sports Central
December 12, 2007
Tom Kosinski |
The Annual Tennis Holiday Wish List With the allegations of match-fixing looming, the professional tennis game has a lot of work ahead in 2008. |
Sports Central
August 17, 2010
Luke Broadbent |
Maria Sharapova's Return to Form Recent form suggests that Sharapova is once again a force to be reckoned with in the sport of tennis |
Sports Central
November 30, 2010
Tom Kosinski |
2010 Tennis Comes To an End, Finally With a thunder of applause, and a bit of ale-driven cheers, the 2010 professional tennis year came to an end yesterday. |
Sports Central
September 6, 2009
Tom Kosinski |
Expect the Unexpected at U.S. Open Could anyone have expected the men's and women's draw to have a day and night like Saturday? |
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
July 25, 2008
Tom Kosinski |
U.S. Open Series, Who Cares? The only tennis tournaments that truly matter to the sports watching public at large are the big four -- the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, and the U.S. Open. |
Sports Central
July 8, 2011
Tom Kosinski |
To High Tides From Green Grass Novak Djokovic, the 2011 men's champion, returned to Serbia and was greeted with a party the likes of only Goran Ivanisevic has ever seen. |
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
May 29, 2012
Mert Ertunga |
Will the Real Youth Please Stand Up? If you still had any questions on whether it was the energy of youth or the experience of age that counted the most, this French Open should be more than enough to settle the issue. |
Sports Central
July 30, 2004
Mert Ertunga |
Mixed Soup: Around the Tennis World While the after-Wimbledon minor clay court tournaments are winding down in Europe and the hard-court season is in full-gear in preparation for the U.S. Open, let's take a closer look at what is happening in and around the ATP and WTA tours. |
Sports Central
August 12, 2009
Mert Ertunga |
Istanbul Cup, Five Years Later Istanbul Cup has excelled in many ways, perhaps enough to be considered in one of the factors influencing Istanbul's success in bidding and winning the privilege to host the year-ending WTA Championships for three years, beginning with the year 2011. |
Sports Central
October 21, 2012
Mert Ertunga |
WTA and Best-of-Five Sets in Slams The women's finals are continuously overshadowed by the men's finals. It is time for WTA to seriously consider implementing some formula that includes a five-set format in the Slams. |
Sports Central
June 16, 2014
Mert Ertunga |
2014 French Open: Parting Thoughts Roland Garros ended with two usual characters holding the winning trophies. Ironically, it will remain as one of the most upset-filled Slams in recent memory. |
Sports Central
June 20, 2007
Mert Ertunga |
Wimbledon, Save Us! A flip of a coin would have been more exciting than guessing the outcomes of tournaments and matches so far. |
Sports Central
November 6, 2013
Mert Ertunga |
Wacky Week in Women's Tennis For the last four years, the WTA has scheduled an additional event. To top it all, it has the wackiest name that I have ever heard for a tournament: "Masters bis." This year, it was held in Sofia, Bulgaria. |
HBS Working Knowledge
October 29, 2007
Sarah Jane Gilbert |
Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement Marketing executives value entertainment-related endorsements because of the difficulty of reaching a wide group of consumers using traditional advertising. |
ifeminists
July 3, 2007
Carey Roberts |
Equal Pay for Equal Work at Wimbledon? If women's tennis is bringing in far less revenue but taking home just as much money as men's, where is their money coming from? You guessed it -- from the men. |
Sports Central
August 24, 2010
Tom Kosinski |
2010 U.S. Open Prequel With the qualifiers starting today, the U.S. Open has officially started. |
Sports Central
November 4, 2011
Mert Ertunga |
WTA Championships at Istanbul: A Success "Brilliant" was frequently the term used by the commentators on Eurosport, Sam Smith and Chris Bradley, to describe the Sinan Erdem Arena in Istanbul and the atmosphere created in it by the spectators during the year-ending TEB BNP Paribas WTA Championships. |
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. |
Sports Central
February 2, 2010
Brad Oremland |
Tennis is More Competitive Than Ever At no other period in history have we seen so many different winners, and so many players capable of stringing together two weeks of wins. |
Sports Illustrated
March 18, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
Slovak uprising How can such a relatively small country produce so many consistent tennis players? |
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
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
September 8, 2004
Tom Kosinski |
Did Anyone Care to Notice? In remembrance of the over 500 wounded and dead Russian men, women, and children caught in the political play of a handful of Chechen terrorists, Maria Sharapova and her Russian mates demonstrated their sadness and sympathy outwardly. Only a small website in the Phillipines reported it. |
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 Illustrated
February 18, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
Don't compare figure skating to tennis What if tennis players smacked the ball to each other for an hour, no points, games or sets tallied, and then judges scored the participants in technical difficulty and presentation? |
Sports Central
January 27, 2010
Tom Kosinski |
What Tennis is Missing Overall, the tennis industry is in a slump, with all the major manufacturers looking for ways to increase sales. |
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
August 31, 2011
Tom Kosinski |
Hurricane Irene First, Now Hurricane McHale Seems fitting, as at the U.S. Open, with two rounds done, NJ resident and local girl Christina McHale have swept through like Hurricane Irene taking out Aleksandra Wozniak in the first round and No. 8 seed Marion Bartoli in the second round. |
Sports Central
September 7, 2009
Mert Ertunga |
Super Saturday Saves the Day This year's U.S. Open has already had its version of a Super Saturday and it took place in the first week. |
