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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 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 Illustrated
March 6, 2000
Jon Wertheim |
Anna, Anna everywhere Tennis Q & A. |
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 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
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
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 6, 2001
Jon Wertheim |
Mac needs to cede some of spotlight John McEnroe, along with many others, has complained about the lack of interest in the ATP Tour and the related lack of personality of its top stars. Is it possible he's part of the problem? |
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 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 18, 2001
Jon Wertheim |
Early thoughts on Wimbledon Wimbledon's seeding formula: You love it. You hate it. You're confused and frustrated to the point of Ulhas from New Delhi, who suggests scrapping seeding altogether -- that action might yield disastrous first-round matchups but it would extinguish the controversy. My take? |
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
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
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
July 30, 2001
Jon Wertheim |
Full of smarts and charisma Now that Anke Huber has announced her retirement, I want to assess her career. She started out so well early on but was dogged by constant comparisons to Steffi Graf. Do you think those expectations ultimately derailed her career, which included just one Grand Slam final? |
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? |
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
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
September 24, 2000
Jon Wertheim |
Grand it ain't Olympic tennis fever isn't contagious |
Sports Illustrated
January 8, 2001
Jon Wertheim |
Breaking out all over Women (and men) on the verge of a breakout year ought to include: Juan Carlos Ferrero, Kim Clijsters, Nathalie Dechy, Justine Henin, Roger Federer... |
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
January 21, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
Hewitt needs to be more media-friendly Tennis star Lleyton Hewitt is locked in mortal combat with the Australian media. I'm assuming that when he's Up Over, he'll be more accommodating... |
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 Illustrated
March 19, 2001
Jon Wertheim |
Williamses' antics undermine the tour The episode hurts the Williamses' credibility and only fuels the widespread speculation that they treat the sport as something of a lark... Hicham Arazi, Younes El Aynaoui and Karim Alami... Elena Bovina... etc. |
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
June 11, 2001
Jon Wertheim |
French Open fallout Some leftover dust particles from Roland Garros... |
Sports Illustrated
May 29, 2000
Jon Wertheim |
Gaga over Guga Tennis Q&A: Gustavo Kuerten... Monica Seles' coach... up-and-coming players with signature playing styles and temperaments... what pro players, past or present, are known to be trick-shot artists... etc. |
Sports Illustrated
October 29, 2001
Jon Wertheim |
Reasonable doubt Don't blame U.S. for withdrawing from Fed Cup... |
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
April 30, 2001
Jon Wertheim |
Sowing the seeds of a controversy What do you make of the Wimbledon seeding controversy?... Sampras's loss to Andy Roddick maybe wasn't such an upset after all... etc. |
Sports Illustrated
March 20, 2000
Jon Wertheim |
On Agassi, mags and Hernan Gumy Tennis Q&A |
Sports Illustrated
May 6, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
Battle of the sexes Which gender has the more appealing tennis game? |
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 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 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
March 26, 2001
Jon Wertheim |
More on the Williams controversy As one would expect, the Mailbag remains stuffed with questions about l'affaire Williams, a controversy that, for any number of reasons, has struck a deep and resonant chord. Your various takes were all over the map... |
Sports Illustrated
October 9, 2000
Jon Wertheim |
Overdue accolades Congrats to all those tennis players who had the mettle to medal... |
Sports Illustrated
February 28, 2000
Jon Wertheim |
Lendl doesn't quite measure up Your tennis questions |
Sports Illustrated
March 18, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
Slovak uprising How can such a relatively small country produce so many consistent tennis players? |
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
October 15, 2001
Jon Wertheim |
Tennis? What tennis? Why the sport has disappeared off U.S. radar screens... |
Sports Illustrated
May 27, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
Remembered in song There are many tunes devoted to tennis stars... |
Sports Illustrated
June 6, 2000
L. Jon Wertheim |
Inside Tennis Week 1 of the French Open was marked by one injury after another |
Sports Illustrated
April 17, 2000 |
Covering a lot of ground Tennis Q&A: WTA marketing's shift from a real sport to just a beauty pageant?... Mirjana Lucic... the announcing team of Leif Shiras and Barry McKay... Australia chooses synthetic surface... etc. |
Sports Illustrated
September 10, 2001
Jon Wertheim |
Wrapping up the Open Credit Hewitt with playing his best tennis when it mattered most... Aside from playing unsurpassing tennis, the Williams sisters were dual models of poise during the Open... |
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
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
October 1, 2001
Jon Wertheim |
Is Roddick fragile? Is it too soon for American men's tennis fans to worry about The Franchise? Also, am I the only one who winces watching him skid and dive on hard courts? |
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
July 15, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
Saving American tennis Demanding more accountability from the good folks in White Plains. |
