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Sports Illustrated July 4, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
Henmania runs wild in England Half volleys from Wimbledon |
Sports Illustrated July 10, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
The Hot List: July 10 Hot: Pete Sampras, Venus Williams, Pat Rafter... Not: Mark Philippoussis, Richard Williams, Natasha Zvereva |
Salon.com July 7, 2000 Max Garrone |
Wimbledon gossip wrap-up The Fortnight is not all green grass and tennis whites, strawberries and cream. Here's the dirt. |
Salon.com July 4, 2001 Allen Barra |
Coulda been contenders? The Williams sisters had best start putting a little effort into their games, or they'll be looking back at what might have been sooner than they think... |
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 July 14, 2000 S.L. Price |
For the Ages The past and the future met in a stirring Wimbledon fortnight as Pete Sampras his record 13th Grand Slam title and Venus Williams her first |
Sports Illustrated July 1, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
Basuki gets to say goodbye Half volleys from Wimbledon |
Sports Illustrated June 22, 2000 |
Previewing Wimbledon's men: Hard to pick against Sampras Sports Illustrated staff writer Jon Wertheim breaks down the men's draw at this year's Wimbledon, predicting how the seeds will fare and looking at some dark horses and intriguing opening matchups. |
Sports Illustrated August 14, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
The Hot List Hot: Thomas Enqvist, Serena Williams, Tim Henman, Taylor Dent... Not: Andre Agassi, Monica Seles, Amelie Mauresmo, Pat Rafter... |
Sports Illustrated October 16, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
Kudos to the Aussie Open Now that the Australian Open has decided to offer equal prize money to both men and women starting next year, what are your feelings on stuffy, old Wimbledon? Will the Brits ever get over their flowers and strawberries? |
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 Illustrated December 14, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
The 2001 Baggie Awards The fourth annual installment of our end-of-the-year tennis awards... |
Sports Illustrated March 20, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
The Hot List Alex Corretja... Lindsay Davenport... Jared Palmer... Elena Dementieva... Martina Navratilova... Andre Agassi... Serena Williams... Martina Hingis... Pete Sampras... Pat Cash... |
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 May 8, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
The Hot List who's hot and who's not in the tennis world: Marat Safin... Martina Hingis... Yevgeny Kafelnikov... Pete Sampras... etc. |
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 29, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
Tapping her potential Best is yet to come for Serena Williams... |
Sports Illustrated December 18, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
The 2000 Baggie Awards It's that time of year again: trees, ornaments, good will, Dick Clark and, of course, the Gold Flake Open. Time to reflect on another enthralling, stranger-than-fiction year in professional tennis with the third annual Baggie Awards... |
Sports Illustrated March 5, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
The skinny on Sampras I was totally overwhelmed by the response generated by last week's question about Pete Sampras' popularity and lack thereof. By early Monday afternoon, dozens of you had weighed in. In all, I received more than 100 e-mails... |
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 28, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
The Hot List: Aug. 28 Hot: Magnus Norman, Venus Williams, Pete Sampras... Not: The USTA... Goran Ivanisevic... Carlos Moya... Andre Agassi... |
Sports Illustrated July 10, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
American Beauty In very different ways, it was now or never for both Wimbledon champs.... |
Sports Illustrated April 3, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
The Hot List Who's hot and who's not in the tennis world: Pete Sampras... Martina Hingis... Serena Williams... Venus Williams... Anna Kournikova... 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 July 6, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
Sisterly slugfest signals tennis' future In a match that will make the front page of all the newspapers, Venus Williams beat her little sister, Serena, 6-2, 7-6 Thursday to reach her first Wimbledon final. One had the feeling this was one of those epochal matches that will be remembered for years. |
Sports Illustrated September 13, 2001 S.L. Price |
American Revolution The battle for supremacy in the women's game seemed over after the Williams sisters dominated the U.S. Open as never before... |
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 Illustrated August 25, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
Breaking down the U.S. Open Womens' draw SI staff writer Jon Wertheim peers into his crystal ball to reveal the fate of all 32 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 February 11, 2002 Jon Wertheim |
Is there a Sampras/Roddick feud? Reading between the lines, it seemed there was some tension between Pete Sampras and Andy Roddick in Oklahoma City. Sounded like the typical "old guard, new guard" stuff... |
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 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 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 June 25, 2000 |
The Hot List: June 25 Hot: Pat Rafter; Sebastien Grosjean; Julie Halard-Decugis; Anna Kournikova... Not: Spanish Armada; Tim Henman; Lindsay Davenport; Mary Pierce; Pete Sampras; Marcelo Rios |
Sports Illustrated January 12, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
Breaking down the Aussie Open draw Analysis of the women players. |
Sports Central September 26, 2006 Ricky Dimon |
If Not For Agassi... What more can be said about Andre Agassi, the American tennis legend who finally called it quits after his third-round loss in the U.S. Open? Quite frankly, nothing. |
Sports Illustrated September 24, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
Grand it ain't Olympic tennis fever isn't contagious |
Sports Illustrated July 5, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
Rafter's much more than a pretty face Half volleys from Wimbledon |
Sports Illustrated July 24, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
Stuck in a circle No easy solution to U.S. Davis Cup problems |
Sports Illustrated February 26, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
Building the perfect player If you were to build the perfect tennis players (male and female), whose forehands, backhands, serve, net game, mental toughness, etc., would you duplicate -- i.e., who has the greatest strengths ever? |
Sports Illustrated July 2, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
End of an era It was only a fourth-round victory. But when Roger Federer dropped to his knees. Federer, after all, had replicated a feat that only one other player had achieved since George Bush the Elder's administration: He beat Pete Sampras at Wimbledon... |
Salon.com July 13, 2000 Gary Kamiya |
"We all choke" Pete Sampras' humility has lessons beyond sports. |
Sports Illustrated June 26, 2002 Frank Deford |
Sisters superior Venus and Serena -- alone and together atop their sport. |
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 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 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 June 24, 2002 Jon Wertheim |
Williams-Williams needs more intensity Comparing tennis players to other icons. |
Sports Central August 20, 2012 Mert Ertunga |
Upsets in Cincinnati: Few of Many in 2012 Now that the last big test before the last Slam of the calendar year has ended in Cincinnati with Roger Federer winning the men's draw and Li Na winning the women's draw, we have finally arrived to the week preceding the U.S. Open. |
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 29, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
Chat Reel Hingis' Wimbledon woes are largely mental... |
Sports Illustrated September 5, 2001 Richard Deitsch |
Agassi, Sampras renew rivalry Styles, of course, make fights, and the dueling styles of Andre Agassi, the quintessential return man, and Pete Sampras, the serve-and-volley stud, should make for something special Wednesday night under the klieg lights of Arthur Ashe... |