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AskMen.com Steve Seepersaud |
Female Athlete Salaries Women typically have equal opportunities to play sports as men, but, too often, the compensation is anything but equal. |
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 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 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 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 Central June 16, 2011 Tom Kosinski |
Will Wimbledon Determine Who is Greatest Ever? Immediately following the French Open final, the debate began in earnest again about Roger Federer being declared the best tennis player of all-time. |
Sports Central March 28, 2007 Mert Ertunga |
The Strangest Oddities in Tennis Certain oddities in tennis do not get much media space or time. Here are a few examples. |
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. |
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 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 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 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. |
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 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 Central August 14, 2007 Tom Kosinski |
U.S. Open Series: Is it Serious? This is turning out to be the summer of Serbs. |
Sports Central July 1, 2009 Tom Kosinski |
Indoor Tennis at Wimbledon? Thanks to the new retractable roof system on Center Court at the All England Lawn Tennis Club, Wimbledon matches were played indoors for the first time in the tournaments 132 years of existence. |
ifeminists July 3, 2007 Carey Roberts |
Equal Pay for Equal Work at Wimbledon? If women's tennis is bringing in far less revenue but taking home just as much money as men's, where is their money coming from? You guessed it -- from the men. |
Sports Central October 21, 2012 Mert Ertunga |
WTA and Best-of-Five Sets in Slams The women's finals are continuously overshadowed by the men's finals. It is time for WTA to seriously consider implementing some formula that includes a five-set format in the Slams. |
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 Central January 4, 2010 Mert Ertunga |
Tennis' Decade of Recovery This past decade was not only a decade of recovery, but also a decade that put forth solid foundation for what could possibly be the second golden age of tennis. |
Sports Central July 8, 2011 Tom Kosinski |
To High Tides From Green Grass Novak Djokovic, the 2011 men's champion, returned to Serbia and was greeted with a party the likes of only Goran Ivanisevic has ever seen. |
Sports Central July 15, 2013 Mert Ertunga |
Prize Money Increase, Century of Tennis Pioneers One of the many surprises during Wimbledon's first week was the defeat of the defending champion Roger Federer at the hands of the Ukrainian Sergiy Stakhovsky. |
Sports Central October 16, 2004 Tom Kosinski |
Tennis: A Year (Almost) in Review The best (and worst) of the 2004 tennis season. |
Sports Illustrated July 15, 2002 Jon Wertheim |
Saving American tennis Demanding more accountability from the good folks in White Plains. |
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 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 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 July 1, 2002 Jon Wertheim |
Missing in action What keeps young guns from consistent Slam performances. |
Sports Illustrated July 22, 2002 Jon Wertheim |
Hardly an epidemic Steroid use is not a huge problem in tennis. |
Sports Illustrated June 25, 2002 |
Wimble-done? Point-counterpoint: One writer says modern rackets and a scarcity of grass events weaken the tournament's cachet. Another says it's time to celebrate a surface that makes everyone equal and defines the elite. |
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 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 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 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 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 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 July 6, 2006 Mert Ertunga |
Wimbledon and All Else Unfortunately for Wimbledon, the World Cup has taken center stage in the world of sports, despite some of the best weather the courts at SW19 have seen in years, some high-quality tennis, and contested matches. |
Sports Illustrated October 15, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
Tennis? What tennis? Why the sport has disappeared off U.S. radar screens... |
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 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 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 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 Central July 10, 2007 Tom Kosinski |
Wimbledon '07: More Than Meets the Eye For the first time in 20 years, a local comes home with a title. |
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 Illustrated November 12, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
Still railing on rankings Is it possible that tennis could adopt something similar to golf's World Ranking? Golf's system is based on results over the last two years and uses average points per event, not total points... |
Sports Illustrated November 5, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
WTA soap opera continues Even by women's tennis' impossibly high standards for absurdity, it was a bizarre week on the WTA Tour... |
Sports Illustrated March 25, 2002 Jon Wertheim |
Hewitt on and off the court After Lleyton Hewitt's 6-1, 6-2 drubbing of Tim Henman at Indian Wells, I'm left wondering: Without the help of chicken pox -- or Nicolas Escude and a grass court -- how do you beat this guy? |
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 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. |