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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
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? |
BusinessWeek
March 10, 2011
Danielle Rossingh |
Women's Tennis Changes Its Game By allowing multiple sponsors, WTA aims to boost revenue. |
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
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 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
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. |
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 Illustrated
July 8, 2002
Phil Taylor |
Dangerous appeal Playing up sexiness in sports can make for a risky game. |
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
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 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 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
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 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
January 26, 2009
Tom Kosinski |
Has Change Come to Tennis in 2009? In 2009, change has come. In America, maybe. In tennis, maybe not. But maybe that's a good thing. |
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
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 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
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
August 14, 2007
Tom Kosinski |
U.S. Open Series: Is it Serious? This is turning out to be the summer of Serbs. |
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 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
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
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. |
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
February 2, 2005
Tom Kosinski |
Sports Integrity, Where is It? I first thought maybe this was like a parody of professional wrestling, and the MLB was actually encouraging more players to start using steroids. |
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
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 Illustrated
October 7, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
Ladies' might Presenting the top women tennis players of the last 25 years |
Sports Illustrated
April 3, 2001
Jon Wertheim |
Roddick is a class act Is Andy Roddick really that good? It seems to me that he still has a lot to prove. If he wasn't American, would he be just another prospect? |
Sports Illustrated
July 22, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
Hardly an epidemic Steroid use is not a huge problem in tennis. |
Sports Central
May 23, 2005
Tom Kosinski |
And So it Begins: The End For Serena? Serena Williams has withdrawn from the French Open. |
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 Illustrated
April 17, 2000 |
Covering a lot of ground Tennis Q&A: WTA marketing's shift from a real sport to just a beauty pageant?... Mirjana Lucic... the announcing team of Leif Shiras and Barry McKay... Australia chooses synthetic surface... etc. |
Sports Illustrated
July 6, 2000
Jon Wertheim |
Sisterly slugfest signals tennis' future In a match that will make the front page of all the newspapers, Venus Williams beat her little sister, Serena, 6-2, 7-6 Thursday to reach her first Wimbledon final. One had the feeling this was one of those epochal matches that will be remembered for years. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
July 15, 2010
Brett Pulley |
Hugh Hefner Wants Playboy, and He's Not Alone Hugh Hefner is making a bid for the company he founded in 1953, and others are circling. |
Sports Illustrated
April 2, 2003
L. Jon Wertheim |
Venus Eclipsed While Serena Williams dominates, her big sister no longer intimidates. |
Sports Illustrated
March 28, 2000
Jon Wertheim |
Williams sisters need better advice ...What's behind Serena's slow start and Venus's no start? The Williams camp takes great pride in keeping the rest of the world off-balance but here are a few explanations... |
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. |
The Motley Fool
October 27, 2011
Dan Radovsky |
Sony Ericsson, No More This once "perfect match" breaks up for the sake of the children. |
The Motley Fool
August 26, 2005
Tarek Sultani |
Playboy's Missed Opportunity? The adult entertainment legend is taking its magazine online. It could have done so a lot sooner. |
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." |
