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Sports Illustrated
January 29, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
ATP needs new marketing strategy The tour tries desperately to cultivate "stars" and "personalities," yet the first major was won by a Swedish veteran who repeatedly described himself as bland and who reacted to the biggest win of his life by grinning and approaching the net to shake his opponent's hand...   |
Sports Illustrated
October 7, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
Ladies' might Presenting the top women tennis players of the last 25 years |
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
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
March 25, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
Hewitt on and off the court After Lleyton Hewitt's 6-1, 6-2 drubbing of Tim Henman at Indian Wells, I'm left wondering: Without the help of chicken pox -- or Nicolas Escude and a grass court -- how do you beat this guy? |
Sports Illustrated
March 4, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
Guessing game Will Stevenson win a title before Kournikova? |
Sports Illustrated
May 6, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
Battle of the sexes Which gender has the more appealing tennis game? |
Sports Illustrated
May 20, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
Safin doesn't have killer instinct Until Marat Safin learns to hate losing in the way that others do -- Lleyton Hewitt being the most obvious example -- he will underachieve on the court... |
Sports Illustrated
August 19, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
Near the top Jelena Dokic's path to te.nnis stardom is chock full of obstacles |
Sports Illustrated
March 18, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
Slovak uprising How can such a relatively small country produce so many consistent tennis players? |
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 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
April 22, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
Will Agassi play Davis Cup? Pat McEnroe is going to try his best to make sure this fantasy is realized. Agassi swore off Davis Cup like a bad habit after the 2000 fiasco... |
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 Illustrated
July 1, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
Missing in action What keeps young guns from consistent Slam performances. |
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
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
May 27, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
Remembered in song There are many tunes devoted to tennis stars... |
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
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 Illustrated
May 13, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
Williams vs. Graf How do you feel a 25-year-old Graf would have faired against Venus Williams? |
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
August 12, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
Hewitt's behavior crosses the line Li'l Lleyton Hewitt is under the mistaken impression that his duties end when he leaves the court. Hey, others can be the tour's public face. Sorry, mate, it doesn't work that way. |
Sports Illustrated
July 22, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
Hardly an epidemic Steroid use is not a huge problem in tennis. |
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
July 8, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
Wrapping up Wimbledon Some random ruminations from a random Wimbledon. |
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
May 27, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
Breaking down the French Open draw The author peers into his crystal ball to reveal the fate of the top 16 men's and women's seeds for the French Open... |
Sports Illustrated
September 9, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
An Open to remember Some random notes on a pretty fair U.S. Open |
Sports Illustrated
July 15, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
Saving American tennis Demanding more accountability from the good folks in White Plains. |
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
April 29, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
Inside the Fed Cup controversy On the Billie Jean King/House of Capriati battle royal... |
Sports Central
February 3, 2010
Tom Kosinski |
Was it Down Under, or Upside Down? In tennis, why is it that older players now dominate where younger players seemed to control the game? |
Sports Illustrated
November 4, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
Finishing first In tennis, season-long consistency is more important than winning Slams. |
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 |
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
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 Illustrated
February 18, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
Don't compare figure skating to tennis What if tennis players smacked the ball to each other for an hour, no points, games or sets tallied, and then judges scored the participants in technical difficulty and presentation? |
Sports Central
November 26, 2004
Mert Ertunga |
ATP and WTA Tours Reversing Trends This is a good moment to reflect back on some major trend changes in the worlds of professional tennis in terms of rankings. |
Sports Central
August 21, 2007
Ricky Dimon |
Will Agassi's U.S. Open Torch Flame Out? If Andre Agassi had ideas of passing his U.S. Open torch to a fellow American when he retired last year inside Arthur Ashe Stadium, his compatriot successors are not reciprocating. |
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
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 Illustrated
June 20, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
Breaking down the Wimbledon draw The author peers into his crystal ball to reveal the fate of the top 16 men's and women's seeds for Wimbledon |
Sports Central
October 30, 2003
Mert Ertunga |
"Hitters and Missers" of 2003 Looking back on the 2003 tennis season. |
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 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 Illustrated
August 26, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
Is Capriati Good Jen or Bad Jen? What is the deal with Jennifer Capriati? Is she just petulant and we never knew it, or is there something that is particularly bothering her at the moment? Her cursing and arguing (mostly wrongly) line calls every week is beginning to turn me off. |
Sports Central
July 27, 2010
Brad Oremland |
Why Serena Williams is Not the Best Ever It would be ludicrous to pretend that Serena Williams is not a great player, among the greatest ever. It is equally absurd, though, to pretend that she has surpassed the likes of Graf and Navratilova to lay claim to the title of best ever. |
Sports Central
October 16, 2004
Tom Kosinski |
Tennis: A Year (Almost) in Review The best (and worst) of the 2004 tennis season. |
Sports Central
May 23, 2005
Tom Kosinski |
And So it Begins: The End For Serena? Serena Williams has withdrawn from the French Open. |
