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Sports Central
March 24, 2005
Tom Kosinski |
Tennis Angels, Yes; Steroids, No You won't find widespread use of any performance enhancing drugs in tennis -- for a list of sound reasons. And a lot of them are the sport's women athletes, who play at the same competitive level as men. Especially the "Tennis Angels," who are four of the top 200 players in the world!   |
Sports Illustrated
August 28, 2002
Frank Deford |
Tennis takes a turn European players are soccer-izing the men's game. |
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
November 12, 2001
Jon Wertheim |
Still railing on rankings Is it possible that tennis could adopt something similar to golf's World Ranking? Golf's system is based on results over the last two years and uses average points per event, not total points... |
Sports Illustrated
June 26, 2002
Frank Deford |
Sisters superior Venus and Serena -- alone and together atop their sport. |
Sports Illustrated
July 8, 2002
Phil Taylor |
Dangerous appeal Playing up sexiness in sports can make for a risky game. |
Sports Illustrated
June 19, 2002
Frank Deford |
Solving the Title IX problem Making football a separate entity would benefit both sexes. |
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
August 23, 2000
Frank Deford |
Do athletic beauties defy stereotypes? Most arguments about sex, like sex itself, involve both sexes. But currently, a discussion about sexiness in women's sports is pretty much an intra-gender conversation that's only between the ladies. The gentlemen, including this one, are standing on the sidelines, happy only to watch. |
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. |
AskMen.com
Steve Seepersaud |
Female Athlete Salaries Women typically have equal opportunities to play sports as men, but, too often, the compensation is anything but equal. |
Sports Illustrated
March 20, 2000
Jon Wertheim |
On Agassi, mags and Hernan Gumy Tennis Q&A |
| AskMen.com |
Wimbledon Women If ever the ladies at this year's Wimbledon wanted to get out of tennis and take up a career in modeling, it wouldn't be too difficult. As a matter of fact, many of them are models on the side already. |
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 Central
October 7, 2004
Mert Ertunga |
Tennis Offseason Reading Picks No tennis to watch? Then read about the game. Tennis books are secret gems that most tennis fans choose to ignore. Here are four worth a trip to the bookstore or library. |
Sports Illustrated
October 9, 2001
Jon Wertheim |
The view on Richard Williams Some interesting responses to my question about why there was, seemingly, so little outrage and righteous indignation regarding the domestic-violence allegations against Richard Williams... |
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 Illustrated
December 27, 2001
Frank Deford |
Fat and happy Athletics suffer thanks to American culture. No, it's not a crisis, but you do have to wonder about a nation whose young are so fat and happy -- and whether or not their inability to be competitive in sports will eventually be reflected in other, more important endeavors in their lives. |
Sports Illustrated
August 2, 2000
Frank Deford |
All sports trends shall come to pass There is a lamentable tendency for the smarty-pants experts to get carried away by some attractive new sports champion and presume that that achievement must somehow portend great and broad significance. In fact, in the culture of sports, there is rarely much change at the top. |
Sports Illustrated
June 6, 2000
L. Jon Wertheim |
Inside Tennis Week 1 of the French Open was marked by one injury after another |
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. |
Sports Illustrated
April 24, 2000
Jon Wertheim |
Anna, Pete ... and Steve Guttenberg Tennis Q&A: Anna Kournikova bandwagon... What must Pete Sampras do to win the French Open this year?... any chance of some young upstart no one has heard off winning one of the big four?... etc. |
Sports Central
August 19, 2005
Tom Kosinski |
2005 U.S. Open: Admission is Free! Just about every professional sport has a minor league of some kind, and each costs you admission. Well, not tennis -- at least not before the major tournaments. For the cost of transportation to Flushing Meadows, you can see some of the best tennis you will ever see for free. |
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 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
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 Illustrated
January 28, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
Can Hingis overcome latest stumble? Martina Hingis hasn't been tennis' top player for three years. She plays wonderfully intuitive, clever tennis and is one of the all-time great thinkers and strategists. But her lack of power -- her dearth of ammunition -- has been fatal to her success... |
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. |
Bank Systems & Technology
August 30, 2005
Will Kelly |
Best Served Cold: Banker for Venture-Backed Companies Ventures Outside for Tennis This bank president participates in platform tennis, a sport that's played outdoors in the winter in northern climates. |
Sports Illustrated
October 22, 2001
Jon Wertheim |
The marrying type(s) My question, "Which tennis players would you be most inclined to marry?" -- drew a downright frightening number of responses... |
Sports Illustrated
July 22, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
Hardly an epidemic Steroid use is not a huge problem in tennis. |
AskMen.com
February 19, 2003
Mark Simmons |
Do Female Athletes Deserve Equality? Women have every right to want their own sports leagues and they even have a right to want to play alongside men in the top organizations. That said, they can have the former but have no business even dreaming about the latter |
Sports Illustrated
April 4, 2001
Frank Deford |
Catching down Women match the men in poor sportsmanship... |
Sports Illustrated
October 15, 2001
Jon Wertheim |
Tennis? What tennis? Why the sport has disappeared off U.S. radar screens... |
Sports Illustrated
April 12, 2000 |
A very big deal to Seles The effect of the stabbing 7 years ago on Monica Seles. |
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 Illustrated
February 25, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
Free advice for tennis' top stars I often wish that I could talk to certain players and make little suggestions. Here's a list of advice I'd give... |
Sports Illustrated
December 4, 2000
Jon Wertheim |
Filling the void in New York Now that the women's tour has pulled the incredibly boneheaded -- boy, that's a surprise, tennis administrators being boneheads -- move of going to Germany for the year-ending tournament, what's the chance of the men coming back to New York? |
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. |
AskMen.com
Mo Arora |
Top 10: Female Physiques In Sports The following women embraced the idea that femininity and athleticism are not mutually exclusive terms: Kerri Walsh... Amy Acuff... Brandy Chastain... Amanda Beard... Natalie Gulbis... Maria Sharapova... Anna Kournikova... etc. |
Lucire
February 1, 2002 |
The rise and rise of Anna Kournikova As Anna Kournikova prepares to pose in paradise for a new photo shoot, we look at what her rise to stardom means for society and women's sports... |
ifeminists
September 2, 2003
Carey Roberts |
Calling the Bluff on Women's Athletics Let's stop this paternalistic "separate-and-unequal" treatment of female athletes. Let's allow the women to play against the men. |
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
April 27, 2005
Tom Kosinski |
What Were They Thinking? Few really care who the official clothing sponsor of the U.S. Open Championships is. Recent additions and changes in the tennis industry, however, have made me wonder, "What were they thinking?" |
Sports Illustrated
October 25, 2000
Frank Deford |
National Passed Time Baseball is still our game -- if we can stay awake. The bizarre thing about baseball is nobody disputes that the games are too long, and because of this the game is being terribly harmed... |
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
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
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 Illustrated
August 5, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
No glam, all game Belgium's Kim Clijsters is one of the few players armed with the weapons and blessed with the physique to topple the Williams dynasty. Clijsters has found a way to be a top player without turning every match into a blood feud. |
Sports Central
October 30, 2003
Mert Ertunga |
"Hitters and Missers" of 2003 Looking back on the 2003 tennis season. |
