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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 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 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 October 16, 2004 Tom Kosinski |
Tennis: A Year (Almost) in Review The best (and worst) of the 2004 tennis season. |
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 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 Illustrated July 22, 2002 Jon Wertheim |
Hardly an epidemic Steroid use is not a huge problem in tennis. |
Sports Illustrated May 9, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
Me, myself and tennis What is this attitude about Martina Navratilova playing doubles again?... Lindsay Davenport or Martina Hingis?... Jensen brothers... etc. |
AskMen.com June 29, 2015 Van Sias |
How Tennis Has Changed In The Past 20 Years What has happened to men's tennis in the last 20 years? Wimbledon gives us a chance to reflect. |
Sports Central January 27, 2010 Tom Kosinski |
What Tennis is Missing Overall, the tennis industry is in a slump, with all the major manufacturers looking for ways to increase sales. |
Sports Illustrated October 15, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
Tennis? What tennis? Why the sport has disappeared off U.S. radar screens... |
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 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 Illustrated July 15, 2002 Jon Wertheim |
Saving American tennis Demanding more accountability from the good folks in White Plains. |
Sports Illustrated October 30, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
Explaining Martina Hingis' success How do spectators determine who is playing smartly and who is playing on "instinct" and sheer athleticism? |
Sports Illustrated March 6, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
Anna, Anna everywhere Tennis Q & A. |
Sports Illustrated July 2, 2003 S.L. Price |
Inside Tennis: Youth Movement Maria Sharapova was the latest 16-year-old to take Wimbledon by storm. But where will she be in a few years? |
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 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. |
Sports Illustrated October 23, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
How to beat the Williamses Why aren't other players following up on Lindsay Davenport's style of beating the Williams sisters? I thought that her technique revealed a weakness in their games... Plus, many other tennis questions... |
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 Illustrated July 2, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
New Wimbledon seeding process has worked I think it helped the men avoid a bazillion upsets while there were still some pretty good matchups. With the big names remaining, the second week should be pretty exciting... |
Sports Illustrated April 24, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
Anna, Pete ... and Steve Guttenberg Tennis Q&A: Anna Kournikova bandwagon... What must Pete Sampras do to win the French Open this year?... any chance of some young upstart no one has heard off winning one of the big four?... 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 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 Central November 28, 2012 Mert Ertunga |
Stellar 2012 Season Had a Few Low Points 2012 will go down as one of the best tennis seasons in the history of the game. On the men's side, we witnessed the confirmation of what many have accurately predicted back at the end of the previous decade: the next Golden Age of Men's Tennis is here. |
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 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 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 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 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 August 18, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
Frustrations for Davenport What's going on with Lindsay Davenport? The top-ranked American woman dominated the Australian Open and then ran the table at Indian Wells in March. But she hasn't won a tournament since... |
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 February 3, 2010 Tom Kosinski |
Was it Down Under, or Upside Down? In tennis, why is it that older players now dominate where younger players seemed to control the game? |
AskMen.com Gray Miles |
U.S. Open Tennis Tennis greatest players are considered by many to be the best athletes on earth. It's not just the complexity of the physical demands of the sport but the mental toll that prolonged one-on-one competition can take that elevates these players to a higher plane. |
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 December 23, 2004 Jon Gonzales |
The 12 Classiest Sports Stars of All-Time Actually, 14-- with a three-way tie for number 10. The names listed here, college and pro, male and female, represent basketball, football, basketball and tennis, but stand together to represent the best of all sports. |
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 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 December 11, 2011 Angus Saul |
The Davis World Cup? Rumors have been circulating for a while now. Among the fans. Among the players. The Davis Cup has lost meaning! The format is redundant, even irrelevant in today's world. The tennis world is calling out for change! |
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 Central May 17, 2006 Ricky Dimon |
Nadal and Federer Enough for ATP? There's a heated rivalry at the top of the men's tennis world -- the 'Swashbuckling Spaniard' Rafael Nadal versus the ever-dominant Roger Federer. |
Sports Illustrated March 4, 2002 Jon Wertheim |
Guessing game Will Stevenson win a title before Kournikova? |