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Sports Central December 12, 2005 Tom Kosinski |
Home For the Holidays With Gisela Dulko Gisela Dulko is one of the true rising stars of the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour. |
Sports Central August 3, 2005 Mert Ertunga |
ATP's New Doubles: A Necessary Evil In case you haven't heard, ATP is changing the format for doubles once the U.S. Open ends. And that's a good "bad thing." Here's why. |
Sports Central December 5, 2005 Tom Kosinski |
Welcome Back, Martina, We Missed You! Martina Hingis announced her return to the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour. |
Sports Central December 21, 2006 Tom Kosinski |
Fifth Annual Tennis Christmas Wish List Saint Nick was pretty good to me last year, and most of my wish list materialized. Hopefully, he'll be just as generous this year. |
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 Central December 21, 2010 Tom Kosinski |
The Tennis Christmas Wish List 2010 Each year for nearly a decade, I've been creating this list as my public thoughts and feelings about where I hope the professional game will go in the coming year. |
Sports Central December 16, 2008 Tom Kosinski |
2008 Tennis Christmas Wish List Dear Santa, I have been relatively good this year, even though Venus and Serena are mad at me. |
Sports Central July 12, 2006 Ricky Dimon |
Bryan Brothers Shine On and Off Court The Bryan Brothers have now won the Australian Open, French Open, U.S. Open, and Wimbledon in doubles, a part of professional tennis of whose existence most sports fans - and even some tennis fans - are probably unaware. |
Sports Central August 9, 2010 Mert Ertunga |
Eyes on Doubles This Week in Toronto This week will be the first time since the summer of 1976 when Jimmy Connors and Arthur Ashe played as a doubles team twice, that the number one and two singles players in the world, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic, will team together to play doubles in Rogers Cup in Toronto. |
Salon.com August 10, 2000 Diane Seo |
The tennis world's new cover boys With Sampras and Agassi aging, men's tennis hopes to excite fans with a fresh crop of young men and a ballsy new ad campaign. |
Sports Central December 3, 2003 Tom Kosinski |
Venus and Serena, Part II It seems that there are many people out there who believe that no matter what Venus and Serena do, they should get a free pass and never be called on it. |
Sports Illustrated March 19, 2002 Jon Wertheim |
Doubling up with Todd Woodbridge From his position on the forehand side, Australia's Todd Woodbridge has established himself as, arguably, the best doubles player the sport has known... |
Sports Central March 13, 2007 Tom Kosinski |
WTA Tour Faces Grave Challenges in U.S. The WTA Tour has done an amazing job of bringing in good sponsors and partners, all who have helped make the tour a worthwhile entertainment venture. But is the picture as rosey as it might seem? |
Sports Central October 8, 2005 Mert Ertunga |
The Never-Ending Sagas Are Back So, it's that time of the year -- things are slow around the tennis world. Really slow! |
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 Central November 14, 2006 Tom Kosinski |
One Down, One to Go The curtain closed on another season of women's professional tennis, but the season was not without its controversies. |
Sports Central March 24, 2005 Tom Kosinski |
Tennis Angels, Yes; Steroids, No You won't find widespread use of any performance enhancing drugs in tennis -- for a list of sound reasons. And a lot of them are the sport's women athletes, who play at the same competitive level as men. Especially the "Tennis Angels," who are four of the top 200 players in the world! |
Sports Central July 4, 2006 Tom Kosinski |
Cinderella and Cinderfella at Wimbledon Severine Bremond rose from a ranking of 100 to take out the three top seeds this year and Marcus Baghdatis has had a great, albeit surprising, run thus far in 2006. |
Sports Central January 26, 2009 Tom Kosinski |
Has Change Come to Tennis in 2009? In 2009, change has come. In America, maybe. In tennis, maybe not. But maybe that's a good thing. |
Sports Central May 10, 2006 Mert Ertunga |
Tennis Fan Looking For a Vacation? If you want to mix tennis tournaments into your vacation plans this summer, you have several wonderful locations to choose from. And it is not as expensive as you think. |
Sports Central September 15, 2008 Luke Broadbent |
The Death of Doubles Tennis? Long gone are the days when the top players in the world would participate in doubles tournaments on a regular basis. |
Sports Central October 26, 2010 Tom Kosinski |
Is the Tennis Season Too Long? The tennis season is way too long. Just like basketball, hockey, and baseball (the World Series hasn't even started yet and it's the end of October) tennis has become just another drawn out non-spectacle. |
Sports Central August 23, 2007 Tom Kosinski |
Is WTA in Middle East a Mistake? The WTA Tour's gamble on moving the championships to where the money is is a low-risk move. |
Sports Central June 10, 2006 Tom Kosinski |
Time For Another Battle of the Sexes? In tennis, the controversy over equal prize money for the sexes continues. |
Sports Central February 24, 2006 Tom Kosinski |
Hingis is Back, But is She Really? Martina Hingis may lack "the fire" to be number one in the WTA. |
Sports Central October 16, 2004 Tom Kosinski |
Tennis: A Year (Almost) in Review The best (and worst) of the 2004 tennis season. |
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 22, 2002 Jon Wertheim |
Hardly an epidemic Steroid use is not a huge problem in tennis. |
Sports Central April 16, 2007 Tom Kosinski |
U.S. Women's Tennis: Venus or Serena? Venus and Serena Williams seem to be the U.S.' only hope on the women's tour for consistent U.S. appearances in tournament finals. |
Sports Central August 22, 2005 Dave Golokhov |
I Hate Mondays: Tennis in Toronto Belgium is a country known for charming chocolates and bewitching beers. Now you can add women's tennis to that list. The final match of the Sony Ericsson WTA tournament featured the only two Belgian females entered in the women's singles draw. |
Sports Central July 28, 2009 Tom Kosinski |
Is Professional Tennis Dying? What is going on behind the scenes of the professional tours and the professional tennis industry? |
Sports Illustrated April 23, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
Time off would serve Hingis well Is Martina Hingis playing so often just to preserve her ranking?... Tour might be best served to scrap doubles altogether... 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 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 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 November 17, 2005 Mert Ertunga |
Best and Worst of ATP Tour in 2005 Withe the top men battling it out for the year-end Masters Cup title in Shanghai, it is time to look at the ins and outs of 2005 on the men's tour. |
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 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 Central December 12, 2007 Tom Kosinski |
The Annual Tennis Holiday Wish List With the allegations of match-fixing looming, the professional tennis game has a lot of work ahead in 2008. |
Sports Central May 20, 2005 Mert Ertunga |
Istanbul Cup: The First, Hopefully Not Last The Istanbul Cup is drawing much interest from fans, media, and sponsors. |
Sports Illustrated July 15, 2002 Jon Wertheim |
Saving American tennis Demanding more accountability from the good folks in White Plains. |
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 Central June 20, 2012 Mert Ertunga |
Half a Century Ago at Wimbledon... Fifty years ago there was a vast gap between how much the men's champion has been revered over the years and how little is known about the women's champion. |
AskMen.com Jennifer Cox |
8 Questions With Ana Ivanovic An interview with Serbian tennis player Ana Ivanovic. |
Sports Illustrated April 16, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
Making it easier to double down The ATP Tour's move to increase the number of top singles players in the doubles draw has generated some controversy, especially among doubles specialists who feel threatened with banishment from la vida tennis. Who wouldn't want to see marquee players spend more time on the court? |
Sports Central April 29, 2004 Tom Kosinski |
Apathy is Killing Women's Tennis The two week, joint ATP-WTA tour stop is one of the few events that rivals the grand slams and has simultaneous men's and women's tournaments. |
Sports Central November 3, 2005 Tom Kosinski |
The Future of American Women's Tennis? With such huge dollars and finances at stake, players hit the tour before they begin high school. They are younger, burning out quicker, and leaving the game without any lasting role models to sow the seeds of tennis for tomorrow. |
BusinessWeek June 7, 2004 Douglas Robson |
Women's Tennis: Back On Serve The stumbling women's tennis tour has begun to turn around thanks to Larry Scott, new CEO of WTA Tour Inc. |
Sports Illustrated August 6, 2001 L. Jon Wertheim |
Plenty of Anna-tude In his new book Venus Envy: A Sensational Season Inside the Women's Tennis Tour, L. Jon Wertheim draws back the curtain on the soap opera that is the WTA Tour. The following is an excerpt from the chapter on everyone's favorite nonwinner, Anna Kournikova... |
Sports Central February 18, 2013 Mert Ertunga |
Five Questions With Pat Cash For most tennis fans, Pat Cash, the 1987 Wimbledon winner, member of multiple Australian Davis Cup teams in the 1980s, and former top-five player, needs no introduction. |