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Sports Illustrated
July 24, 2000
Jon Wertheim |
Stuck in a circle No easy solution to U.S. Davis Cup problems   |
Sports Illustrated
September 11, 2000
Jon Wertheim |
The Hot List Hot: Venus Williams, Marat Safin, Lleyton Hewitt, Elena Dementieva... Not: Serena Williams, Mary Pierce, Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Magnus Norman... |
Sports Illustrated
September 11, 2000
Jon Wertheim |
Safin has a good shot at No. 1 Rating the courts of the Slam venues... Prognosticating on the future rivalries in tennis... |
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
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 Illustrated
September 24, 2000
Jon Wertheim |
Grand it ain't Olympic tennis fever isn't contagious |
Sports Illustrated
October 23, 2000
Jon Wertheim |
How to beat the Williamses Why aren't other players following up on Lindsay Davenport's style of beating the Williams sisters? I thought that her technique revealed a weakness in their games... Plus, many other tennis questions... |
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 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
December 14, 2001
Jon Wertheim |
The 2001 Baggie Awards The fourth annual installment of our end-of-the-year tennis awards... |
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
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
August 23, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
Breaking down the U.S. Open draw The author predicts the fate of the top 16 men's and women's seeds for the U.S. Open. See the first-round matches you shouldn't miss, some darkhorse candidates to advance to Week 2, and his championship predictions. |
Sports Illustrated
August 14, 2000
Jon Wertheim |
Back with some bite Are you a tennis junkie?... Eric Van Harpen is out as Anna Kournikova's coach... 10 suggested ATP Tour slogans that were rejected in favor of New Balls, Please... etc. |
Sports Illustrated
May 7, 2001
Jon Wertheim |
Roddick excites American fans Pretty soon, seats on the Andy Roddick bandwagon are going to be available through scalpers only... |
Sports Illustrated
July 16, 2001
Jon Wertheim |
The good and bad of Ivanisevic I was happy to see Goran Ivanisevic finally win Wimbledon until I saw his post-match news conference, during which he referred to a linesman as a "faggot." Why doesn't the press call him on his bigotry? |
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
March 6, 2000
Jon Wertheim |
Anna, Anna everywhere Tennis Q & A. |
Sports Illustrated
November 6, 2000
Jon Wertheim |
Venus speeds past Marion Jones From the Mailbag: Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Sports Illustrated has declared Venus Williams Sportswoman of the Year. This award belongs to Marion Jones. No one even comes close. Of course I could be wrong... |
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 Illustrated
October 9, 2000
Jon Wertheim |
Overdue accolades Congrats to all those tennis players who had the mettle to medal... |
Sports Illustrated
May 22, 2000
Jon Wertheim |
From movies to poems Tennis Q&A: Tennis related movies... Is Nathalie Tauziat's "controversial" book going to be available in English in the U.S.?... Juan Carlos Ferrero... who are the shortest successful players on both tours?... etc. |
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
December 11, 2000
Jon Wertheim |
Five top-five lists Top five tennis players of 2000, including men and women... Which players have the weirdest serves?... etc. |
Sports Illustrated
July 2, 2001
Jon Wertheim |
New Wimbledon seeding process has worked I think it helped the men avoid a bazillion upsets while there were still some pretty good matchups. With the big names remaining, the second week should be pretty exciting... |
Sports Illustrated
July 10, 2001
Rick Reilly |
Disadvantage, Women The women are more popular, make more headlines and play more entertaining tennis than the men, yet the women made $790,919 less over the Wimbledon fortnight than the men and $428,637 less at the French... |
Sports Illustrated
July 9, 2001
Jon Wertheim |
Venus, Goran come through I haven't watched too much tennis until this year, but after following the French Open and the first two days of Wimbledon, I can truly say how ugly the game of men's tennis is when it's played on grass... |
Sports Illustrated
November 27, 2000
Jon Wertheim |
Canadian tennis and the points race So the legend of Goran Ivanisevic grows. For those of you who missed it, the phylo-dough-flaky Croat had to default his match to Hyung-Taik Lee in Brighton, England, when he smashed all the rackets in his possession and was left with no implement... |
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
August 13, 2001
Jon Wertheim |
Recognizing Guga, scolding Capriati Next time the topic of the fittest players in men's tennis comes up, remember Gustavo Kuerten playing a set and half against Tim Henman on Sunday and then returning 20 minutes later to beat Pat Rafter... |
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
August 20, 2001
Jon Wertheim |
Solving the rankings riddle As a USTA poster boy, rest assured Andy Roddick will be playing every match on a show court. He's popping serves, bludgeoning his groundies and moving well. More impressive, he's been showing poise that belies his age... |
Sports Illustrated
September 23, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
Compare and contrast Comparing tennis players from different vintages is the most inexact of sciences. A million variables come into play. |
Sports Illustrated
August 25, 2000
Jon Wertheim |
Breaking down the U.S. Open Mens' draw SI staff writer Jon Wertheim peers into his crystal ball to reveal the fate of all 32 seeds for the U.S. Open. See the first-round matches you shouldn't miss, some darkhorse candidates to advance to Week 2, and his championship predictions. |
Sports Illustrated
October 16, 2000
Jon Wertheim |
Kudos to the Aussie Open Now that the Australian Open has decided to offer equal prize money to both men and women starting next year, what are your feelings on stuffy, old Wimbledon? Will the Brits ever get over their flowers and strawberries? |
Sports Illustrated
September 16, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
Agassi's legacy Andre easily ranks among the best of the past 20 years. |
Sports Illustrated
August 5, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
Sampras appears on the rebound If his career was in seriously dire straits after Wimbledon, Pete Sampras bounced back with a vengeance in Toronto. |
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? |
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
August 7, 2000
Jon Wertheim |
The Hot List: Aug. 7 Hot: Marat Safin, Venus Williams, Amy Frazier, Harel Levy... Not: Andre Agassi, Lindsay Davenport, Martina Hingis, Jan-Michael Gambill, Jelena Dokic... |
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
June 29, 2001
Jon Wertheim |
Chat Reel Hingis' Wimbledon woes are largely mental... |
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 Illustrated
July 23, 2001
Jon Wertheim |
A tennis-book wish list My friend and I were checking out the WTA Tour message boards the other day and came across a thread on the "World's Shortest Tennis Books"... |
Sports Illustrated
June 10, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
Capriati is at a loss There are a million cheap shots I'll avoid making at J-Cap's expense (being in Paris makes one softer than brie). But let's just say that she hasn't exactly grasped the nuances of the rankings system. |
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
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 30, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
Midterm grades It was a typically wacky first week at Wimbledon. (And Richard Williams and his greaseboard weren't even around.) On the vacant middle Sunday, as the grass gets tended to and Mother Nature, thus far benevolent, devises her game plan for Week 2, we distribute our midterm grades. |
Sports Illustrated
August 6, 2001
L. Jon Wertheim |
Plenty of Anna-tude In his new book Venus Envy: A Sensational Season Inside the Women's Tennis Tour, L. Jon Wertheim draws back the curtain on the soap opera that is the WTA Tour. The following is an excerpt from the chapter on everyone's favorite nonwinner, Anna Kournikova... |
Sports Illustrated
February 28, 2000
Jon Wertheim |
Lendl doesn't quite measure up Your tennis questions |
