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Analyzing Time of Match Between Djokovic-Nadal

February 4, 2012 By 4 Comments

by Matthew Laird Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic contested their third consecutive Grand Slam final at the recently concluded 2012 Australian Open. It was by a wide margin their most competitive and exciting meeting at this stage. There was a great deal of high drama, multiple swings in momentum, and no shortage of stellar shot-making [...]

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Novak Djokovic and Petra Kvitova: The Big Winners of 2011

December 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Who could ever doubt that Novak Djokovic wasn’t going to be named ITF World Champion. With an almost perfect 2011 winning three Grand Slam titles and seven other titles Djokovic is the rightful winner by all standards. Next to the seven titles, Djokovic also bags $12.6 million in prize money. He won even more than [...]

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Serena Williams Pulls out of Australian Open 2011 – The Friday Five

November 26, 2010 By 1 Comment

By Maud Watson Progress Coming At the front part of this week, the powers-at-be of the ATP were happy to announce that a decision had been made to shorten the season by two weeks, beginning in 2012. In order to achieve shaving off two weeks from the current schedule, the week between the Paris Masters [...]

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ROGER FEDERER: PUTTING THINGS IN PERSPECTIVE

June 7, 2010 By 82 Comments

By Peter Nez Roger Federer is in Halle, Germany this week playing his typical warm up tournament before Wimbledon (Germany’s only grass court event) where the latest news reports that Roger has signed a lifetime contract with tournament organizers, meaning he is committed to the event as long as he is playing professional tennis. “It’s [...]

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AGASSI, SAMPRAS RIVALRY UP IN FLAMES: THE FRIDAY FIVE

March 19, 2010 By 1 Comment

By Maud Watson Rivalry Up in Flames – By now everyone around the globe must know about the infamous spat that took place between Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi at the “Hit for Haiti” charity event. I’ll go on record as saying that both men were wrong for the way that they behaved that night. [...]

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MARTINA HINGIS: SHINE ON YOU CRAZY DIAMOND

February 6, 2010 By 7 Comments

I woke up this morning, enjoying my cup of tea, reading the sports news on Yahoo! when a headline caught my eye. Martina Hingis to play the World Team Tennis. I was baffled by this news. I have been a fan of Hingis since 1998. When she won, we won. When she lost, we lost. [...]

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RODDICK NEEDS TO GET A GRIP ON HIS EMOTIONS: THE FRIDAY FIVE

January 22, 2010 By 3 Comments

By Maud Watson Rattled Roddick – In the second round encounter earlier this week at the Australian Open between Andy Roddick and Thomaz Bellucci, Bellucci hit a shot on match point down that was initially called out. Bellucci challenged the call. Hawk-eye showed the ball in, and chair umpire Fergus Murphy awarded the point to [...]

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Austrian Cancer Survivor Klemenschits To Make Grand Slam Debut In US Open

September 1, 2009 By 1 Comment

Austrian doubles specialist Sandra Klemenschits, who returned to the tour in July 2008 after overcoming a rare form of abdominal cancer, will make her Grand Slam debut this week at the US Open in the women’s doubles event.

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Gasquet Cleared, Party Kiss Transferred Cocaine

July 16, 2009 By 4 Comments

Richard Gasquet escaped a lengthy doping ban Wednesday when the International Tennis Federation ruled that he inadvertently took cocaine.

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Mondays With Bob Greene: Well, I tried to be quiet for you guys today

June 29, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Bob Greene, the esteemed former Associated Press tennis writer, wraps up the week that was in international tennis with his “Monday’s With Bob Greene” column – a revival of his popular weekly feature at the AP. This week Bob summarizes the first week of Wimbledon.

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