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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 July 5, 2010 Mert Ertunga |
Reflections on Wimbledon 2010 Wimbledon 2010 will be remembered as one of the most remarkable Slam tournaments ever in its entirety. |
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 Central March 6, 2014 Mert Ertunga |
Early Tennis Season Notes of 2014 The 2014 season has begun with several unexpected events that set the stage for a terrific year in tennis. |
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 12, 2010 Luke Broadbent |
Should Women Play Five Sets? Making the women play five sets in the semifinals and final would go some way to ensuring the very best wins. It will require greater fitness and much greater mental strength. The cream will almost certainly always rise to the top. |
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 14, 2006 Mert Ertunga |
Top 10 Men's Tennis Matches of 21st Century Of course, these picks are very much open to debate. |
Sports Central August 14, 2012 Angus Saul |
Britain's Golden Boy For years, Andy Murray has been labelled "the best player not to win a slam," and that hasn't changed. Some have simply branded him "unlucky," and, had he not lived in arguably the toughest era in tennis, he would have won several by now. |
Sports Central January 17, 2007 Ricky Dimon |
2007 ATP Season Has Major Shoes to Fill With the Australian Open, the unofficial grand opening of the professional tennis season, suddenly upon us, it's time to recap the best of the best of 2006 and look ahead to 2007. |
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 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 July 6, 2011 Ross Lancaster |
The New Dominant Duo in Men's Tennis If you've been following men's tennis throughout 2011, the fact that Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic met in the finals of Wimbledon was no great surprise. |
AskMen.com January 19, 2013 Van Sias |
Will Andy Murray Dominate Tennis In 2013 Can Andy Murray's run of solid form continue through the year's first Grand Slam, the Australian Open -- and beyond? |
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 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 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 February 2, 2009 Luke Broadbent |
Rafa Wins an Eventful Australian Open The standard of tennis throughout the Melbourne major has been of an extremely high quality, but the tournament wasn't without some controversy. |
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. |
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 25, 2008 Mert Ertunga |
Could 12 Slams Be it For Federer? Even the most biased Federer fan should be able to discern these danger signs. |
Sports Central August 20, 2012 Mert Ertunga |
Upsets in Cincinnati: Few of Many in 2012 Now that the last big test before the last Slam of the calendar year has ended in Cincinnati with Roger Federer winning the men's draw and Li Na winning the women's draw, we have finally arrived to the week preceding the U.S. Open. |
Sports Central June 22, 2011 Mert Ertunga |
Breaking Down Wimbledon 2011 Get ready for some top quality tennis among four excellent players. |
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 Central August 1, 2011 Mert Ertunga |
Remembering Stefan Edberg's Last Hurrah Let's summarize this incredible accomplishment: Edberg played four matches in a row, remained on the court a total of over 20 hours, and captured the last Slam title of his career to write history. |
Sports Central August 21, 2013 Mert Ertunga |
Recapping Cincinnati and Previewing NY The string of tennis tournaments leading up to the U.S. Open and the many hours of practice on hard courts for the last few weeks no doubt prove to be physically taxing on most of the champions. |
Sports Central February 2, 2011 Tom Kosinski |
Another Upside Down Down Under Championship Novak Djokovic man-handled Andy Murray in straight sets and took home his second Australian Open title. |
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 June 22, 2005 Mert Ertunga |
Thoughts As Wimbledon Commences The Ordina Open in the Netherlands is a good setting for anticipating Wimbledon. |
Sports Central September 9, 2015 Luke Broadbent |
U.S. Open: Federer's Last Chance to Win? In all likelihood, if Federer reaches the final, he will have to play his nemesis, Djokovic. However, I think he will be better equipped to come out on top this time. |
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 Central July 7, 2009 Mert Ertunga |
A Poetic Sunday in London Here we are, unable to find fitting words to describe Roger Federer's greatness. But his final victory against Andy Roddick on Sunday was more than a simple victory. |
Sports Central February 20, 2004 Tom Kosinski |
Marat Safin a Force Again Maybe the biggest story of the Aussie Open was Marat Safin. A perennial critics' favorite, Safin has the physical size, speed, power, and talent to be a multi-Grand Slam champion |
Sports Central October 12, 2012 Angus Saul |
Murray's Finest Hour 2012 got off to a roaring start. Andy Murray was stepping up to the baseline, hitting aggressively, and taking the fight to his opponent, rather than reverting to the passive counter-punching which comes so naturally to him. |
Sports Central November 23, 2010 Mert Ertunga |
Once Upon a Time on Fast Courts Is the plug being pulled too soon on fast courts? |
Sports Central May 25, 2007 George Soules |
Why Federer Still Has Something to Prove Is Roger Federer as great as they say? Or is the competition these days not what it once was? |
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 September 8, 2014 Mert Ertunga |
Changing of the Guard in Men's Tennis? The fact that there is nobody called Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, or Roger Federer in the finals of a Slam tournament for the first time since the 2005 Australian Open does not necessarily point to the end of an era. |
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 3, 2015 Mert Ertunga |
Leaving the Australian Open Behind The Australian Open provided enough thrills throughout the two-week long tennis festival, and concluded with Serena Williams and Novak Djokovic confirming their statuses as the best players on their respective tours. |
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. |
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 June 13, 2008 Mert Ertunga |
Tennis' Unforgettable One-Hit Wonders I decided to write about one of the ultimate clubhouse chatter subjects: one-hit wonders of the tennis world. |
Sports Central July 9, 2012 Mert Ertunga |
What Truly Makes Roger Federer Great Congratulations to the great Swiss player but in this article, I will neither repeat his astonishing statistics nor reload the "bravo" tributes and comments that newswires have been overloaded with since his moment of victory at Wimbledon. |
Sports Central September 7, 2011 Mert Ertunga |
Bandwagons Derailed at the U.S. Open One of my favorite activities is to try to find articles or predictions made by tennis experts prior to a tournament and then compare them to the actual results once the tournament takes place. |
Sports Central November 15, 2012 Angus Saul |
Tennis 2012 in Review Novak Djokovic end the year as No. 1 as he won the ATP World Tour Finals earlier this week. He also has his Australian Open crown to add to that, with a further four titles along the way. |
Sports Central May 17, 2006 Ricky Dimon |
Nadal and Federer Enough for ATP? There's a heated rivalry at the top of the men's tennis world -- the 'Swashbuckling Spaniard' Rafael Nadal versus the ever-dominant Roger Federer. |
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 September 14, 2011 Luke Broadbent |
Serena Williams and a Great Set of Tennis Of course we all watch for the tennis, but tennis, and sports in general, is nothing more than live non-scripted theater. |
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. |