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Sports Central November 18, 2008 Mert Ertunga |
One Player Can Make the Difference Does one player, like Rafael Nadal, really mean that much to a team? |
Sports Central March 10, 2009 Mert Ertunga |
Valuable Lessons From Davis Cup Weekend This weekend's Davis Cup ties provided some valuable lessons to the federations, coaches, fans, and players. |
Sports Illustrated September 16, 2002 Jon Wertheim |
Pat Mac talks Davis Cup Afflicted by Davis Cup fever? We didn't think so. But Patrick McEnroe believes tennis fans might be if there were some rhyme or reason to the competition's time and season. |
Sports Central April 11, 2012 Mert Ertunga |
U.S. Marching on Against All Odds When USA Davis Cup team began last Friday their encounter against the French, it was almost like a flashback to two months ago. |
Sports Central October 5, 2010 Mert Ertunga |
Guy Forget and France Face Big Challenge On the first weekend of December, Serbia and France will meet in Belgrade Arena for a showdown to determine the winner of 2010 Davis Cup. |
Sports Central March 9, 2005 Mert Ertunga |
Heroism, Failure, Redemption in Davis Cup Dramatic! Sensational! Stunning! Call it what you will, there is nothing like it. The Davis Cup is not your everyday tennis tournament type of excitement, as this past weekend proved once again. |
Sports Central December 11, 2011 Angus Saul |
The Davis World Cup? Rumors have been circulating for a while now. Among the fans. Among the players. The Davis Cup has lost meaning! The format is redundant, even irrelevant in today's world. The tennis world is calling out for change! |
Sports Central April 20, 2006 Tom Kosinski |
Was This the Davis Cup or Maybe Cup? A review of the Davis Cup tournament, plus Gene Scott memorialized. |
Sports Central December 3, 2014 Mert Ertunga |
In Defense of Arnaud Clement Clement did carry them to the finals and the French need to understand that for one weekend in November, they faced a Swiss team that had superior skills. |
Sports Illustrated June 4, 2002 L. Jon Wertheim |
Clay Pigeons With one exception, U.S. men just can't play on the French Open's slow surface. |
Sports Central February 10, 2004 Mert Ertunga |
Everyone Cares But the U.S. The Davis Cup is big news in almost all the countries that send teams there. |
Sports Central July 17, 2007 Mert Ertunga |
Debunking Tennis' Biggest Myths In tennis, facts often become distorted, certain players undeservingly become failures, and what starts out as a harmless exaggeration turns into a "well-known fact." |
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 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 Central May 15, 2007 Mert Ertunga |
Rafa's Season and Place in History This year's clay court campaign has Rafael Nadal winning by a landslide. |
Sports Central December 26, 2013 Mert Ertunga |
The Greatest Player of All-Time Debate Is it Rod Laver, Pete Sampras, Bjorn Borg, Rafael Nadal, or Roger Federer? Will Novak Djokovic soon be added to the list? In any case, the Greatest of All-Time debate has been alive since the mid-1990s. |
Sports Central February 15, 2010 Mert Ertunga |
Coach-Player Duo Living the Dream A conversation with Marsel Ilhan's coach, Can Uner. |
Sports Central July 12, 2006 Ricky Dimon |
Bryan Brothers Shine On and Off Court The Bryan Brothers have now won the Australian Open, French Open, U.S. Open, and Wimbledon in doubles, a part of professional tennis of whose existence most sports fans - and even some tennis fans - are probably unaware. |
Sports Central September 26, 2006 Ricky Dimon |
If Not For Agassi... What more can be said about Andre Agassi, the American tennis legend who finally called it quits after his third-round loss in the U.S. Open? Quite frankly, nothing. |
Sports Central May 25, 2006 Ricky Dimon |
French Open Preview: Nadal Repeat? The ingredients are there for a miracle of Kuertenian and Verkerkian proportions to take place once again on the hallowed grounds of Roland Garros. |
Sports Illustrated July 25, 2000 L. Jon Wertheim |
Scorecard McEnroe's outsized ego proves no match for U.S. apathy |
Sports Illustrated July 24, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
Stuck in a circle No easy solution to U.S. Davis Cup problems |
AskMen.com June 29, 2015 Van Sias |
How Tennis Has Changed In The Past 20 Years What has happened to men's tennis in the last 20 years? Wimbledon gives us a chance to reflect. |
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. |
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 February 28, 2008 Tom Kosinski |
Globalization or De-Americanization? Some tennis fans may think that globalization is ruining the sport, but not all. |
Sports Central July 14, 2004 Tom Kosinski |
The Grass is Always Greener Highlights from the author's week at the oldest, most famous of all tennis tournaments, The Championships at Wimbledon. |
Sports Central April 9, 2013 Mert Ertunga |
The U.S. vs. Serbia Davis Cup Tie Aftermath It's not unthinkable that Serbia would defeat the U.S.A, but that the world's number one ranked doubles team Bob and Mike Bryan twins, would lose on Saturday to a doubles tandem composed of Nenad Zimonjic and some guy named Ilija Bozoljac. |
Sports Illustrated March 18, 2002 Jon Wertheim |
Slovak uprising How can such a relatively small country produce so many consistent tennis players? |
Sports Illustrated May 16, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
Courier's legacy Tennis Q&A: career of Jim Courier, who retired last week... Advice for Pete Sampras... Jennifer Capriati... Why are Marat Safin's best results on clay?... etc. |
Sports Central November 17, 2005 Mert Ertunga |
Best and Worst of ATP Tour in 2005 Withe the top men battling it out for the year-end Masters Cup title in Shanghai, it is time to look at the ins and outs of 2005 on the men's tour. |
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 July 1, 2008 Tom Kosinski |
Wimbledon: Grass or Green Clay? The All England Lawn Tennis Club insists that they have not changed the playing conditions at Wimbledon to favor the clay-court players. |
Sports Illustrated May 6, 2002 Jon Wertheim |
Battle of the sexes Which gender has the more appealing tennis game? |
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 December 10, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
En francais It's been a good month for Guy Forget. A week after captaining France to a Davis Cup triumph against Australia, Forget collected another title of his own on Sunday when he served 21 aces on the way to a 7-5, 6-7 (5), 11-9 victory over Petr Korda in a seniors tournament in London... |
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 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 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 July 6, 2006 Mert Ertunga |
Wimbledon and All Else Unfortunately for Wimbledon, the World Cup has taken center stage in the world of sports, despite some of the best weather the courts at SW19 have seen in years, some high-quality tennis, and contested matches. |
Sports Central April 7, 2010 Mert Ertunga |
Clay Court Season is Here! The European clay court circuit is kicking off and based on past years' patterns, a good advice would be to expect different names, and some new ones, to emerge in the earlier rounds |
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 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 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 Central August 20, 2015 Luke Broadbent |
The Healthy State of Great British Tennis Britain has dominated track cycling, three of the last four Tour de France winners have been British and we exceeded all expectations at the London 2012 Olympics. And now, it seems, we are successful at tennis. |
Sports Illustrated July 24, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
The Hot List: July 24 Hot: Spain's Davis Cup team, Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario, Serena Williams... Not: U.S. Davis Cup team... Magnus Norman... Yevgeny Kafelnikov... Conchita Martinez |
Sports Illustrated December 2, 2002 Jon Wertheim |
Kafelnikov left us wanting more Without fail, the Davis Cup furnishes enough drama, intrigue, backstories and passion plays to warrant an HBO miniseries. Last weekend was no exception. |
Sports Illustrated April 9, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
A tale of tennis' bard What Bud Collins is really like... |
Sports Illustrated July 17, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
The Hot List: July 17 Hot: Martina Navratilova, Ecuador Davis Cup, Magnus Norman, NBC, Australia Davis Cup... Not: U.S. Davis Cup team, Britain Davis Cup team, Greg Rusedski, HBO, |
Sports Central July 3, 2004 Mert Ertunga |
Federer is One of a Kind Whether you are a fan of baseliners, serve-and-volley style, or an all-court style of tennis, one thing is certain: you will enjoy watching Roger Federer. |