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Sports Illustrated
June 4, 2002
L. Jon Wertheim |
Clay Pigeons With one exception, U.S. men just can't play on the French Open's slow surface.   |
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
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
February 27, 2004
Motez Robinson, Jr. |
A View of the Evolution of Tennis I have been involved in tennis as a player and instructor for nearly 30 years and have seen and experienced the changes that have occurred in the game. Over the last 30 years, the game has basically retreated from net play to baseline play. |
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
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
May 27, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
Remembered in song There are many tunes devoted to tennis stars... |
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
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 Illustrated
June 5, 2000
Jon Wertheim |
Pensive in Paris A few of your questions during Monday's rain delay ... |
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
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
May 29, 2001
Jon Wertheim |
Venus falling On second thought, Capriati will win the French... |
Sports Illustrated
March 20, 2000
Jon Wertheim |
On Agassi, mags and Hernan Gumy Tennis Q&A |
Sports Illustrated
June 11, 2001
Jon Wertheim |
French Open fallout Some leftover dust particles from Roland Garros... |
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
May 24, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
Breaking down the French Open draw Predictions for the French Open. |
Sports Illustrated
May 31, 2001
Jon Wertheim |
Chat Reel Might be time for Sampras to stop playing French... |
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 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 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 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
April 3, 2001
Jon Wertheim |
Roddick is a class act Is Andy Roddick really that good? It seems to me that he still has a lot to prove. If he wasn't American, would he be just another prospect? |
Sports Illustrated
April 29, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
Inside the Fed Cup controversy On the Billie Jean King/House of Capriati battle royal... |
Sports Illustrated
May 22, 2000
Jon Wertheim |
From movies to poems Tennis Q&A: Tennis related movies... Is Nathalie Tauziat's "controversial" book going to be available in English in the U.S.?... Juan Carlos Ferrero... who are the shortest successful players on both tours?... etc. |
Sports Illustrated
June 20, 2001
Jon Wertheim |
Breaking down the Wimbledon draw Our writer peers into his crystal ball to reveal the fate of the top 16 women's seeds for Wimbledon. Scroll down to see the first-round matches you shouldn't miss, some darkhorse candidates to advance to Week 2, and his championship predictions... |
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
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
June 12, 2000 |
The Hot List: June 12 Hot: Gustavo Kuerten, Mary Pierce; Not: Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario, Yevgeny Kafelnikov, etc. |
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
May 21, 2001
Jon Wertheim |
Prepping for a Slam While players want to approach a major in some semblance of a groove, they also want to avoid peaking too early. Someone like Agassi can't be pleased about heading to Roland Garros on the heels of clay-court losses... |
Sports Illustrated
January 2, 2001
Jon Wertheim |
Counting down to Australia A smattering of random questions this week from the hardcore tennis junkies. Don't look now, but the Australian Open starts two weeks from yesterday... |
Sports Illustrated
October 9, 2000
Jon Wertheim |
Overdue accolades Congrats to all those tennis players who had the mettle to medal... |
Sports Illustrated
March 6, 2000
Jon Wertheim |
Anna, Anna everywhere Tennis Q & A. |
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
July 17, 2000
Jon Wertheim |
It's the Williamses' mailbag ... The Williams Show seems to have been given a second season. What are the chances that Serena and Venus will seek out proper coaching now and fine-tune their games so that their father's prediction of them ranking 1 and 2 really can come true? |
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 Illustrated
October 29, 2001
Jon Wertheim |
Reasonable doubt Don't blame U.S. for withdrawing from Fed Cup... |
Sports Illustrated
August 14, 2000
Jon Wertheim |
Back with some bite Are you a tennis junkie?... Eric Van Harpen is out as Anna Kournikova's coach... 10 suggested ATP Tour slogans that were rejected in favor of New Balls, Please... etc. |
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
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
March 12, 2001
Jon Wertheim |
Guga, Guga and more Guga Last week I explained that the reason Gustavo Kuerten is seldom discussed here -- relative to his ranking, anyway -- is because I rarely receive questions that pertain to him. Apres moi, le deluge... |
Sports Illustrated
April 24, 2000
Jon Wertheim |
The Hot List who's hot and who's not in the tennis world: Mary Pierce... Cedric Pioline... Gustavo Kuerten... Monica Seles... etc. |
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 Illustrated
March 18, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
Slovak uprising How can such a relatively small country produce so many consistent tennis players? |
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 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
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
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 Illustrated
September 5, 2001
Jon Wertheim |
Men's game has plenty of personality From (Andre) Agassi to (Mariano) Zabaleta, representing 29 countries -- think Model U.N. with better tans and hotter girlfriends -- the cast of characters in men's tennis runs the entire gamut... |
