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Sports Illustrated March 28, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
Williams sisters need better advice ...What's behind Serena's slow start and Venus's no start? The Williams camp takes great pride in keeping the rest of the world off-balance but here are a few explanations... |
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 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 July 10, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
The Hot List: July 10 Hot: Pete Sampras, Venus Williams, Pat Rafter... Not: Mark Philippoussis, Richard Williams, Natasha Zvereva |
Sports Illustrated June 26, 2002 Frank Deford |
Sisters superior Venus and Serena -- alone and together atop their sport. |
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 Central November 25, 2003 Tom Kosinski |
Tennis Not a Top Priority For Williams Sisters Now that Serena has her Aneres clothing line (it's Serena spelled backwards, if you didn't already get it) and Venus has been seen on the runway modeling clothing inspired by her ideas, it's clear that the Williams' time on the tour is very quickly coming to an end. |
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. |
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. |
Sports Illustrated April 2, 2003 L. Jon Wertheim |
Venus Eclipsed While Serena Williams dominates, her big sister no longer intimidates. |
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, 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 29, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
Dandy Andy In one week of high-quality tennis, Andy Roddick not only served up a feel-good story to counteract WilliamsGate; he also showed why the USTA wonks have, for years, been salivating like dogs when they discuss his prospects... |
Sports Central June 29, 2011 Luke Broadbent |
Tennis Has No Need For a Leading Lady A lot is made of the fact that women's tennis lacks big names that consistently come to the fore. |
Sports Illustrated July 24, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
Stuck in a circle No easy solution to U.S. Davis Cup problems |
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 May 23, 2005 Tom Kosinski |
And So it Begins: The End For Serena? Serena Williams has withdrawn from the French Open. |
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 July 8, 2002 Jon Wertheim |
Wrapping up Wimbledon Some random ruminations from a random Wimbledon. |
Sports Illustrated December 14, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
The 2001 Baggie Awards The fourth annual installment of our end-of-the-year tennis awards... |
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 December 2, 2002 Jon Wertheim |
View from the top Best isn't good enough; Serena Williams wants to be perfect. |
Sports Central July 27, 2005 Tom Kosinski |
The Williams Effect, or Lack Thereof... The public parks tennis program, once a thriving portion of the industry, has been looked to of late as the savior of the United States Tennis Association and the impetus for a whole new generation of tennis players nationwide. |
Sports Illustrated August 5, 2002 Jon Wertheim |
Sampras appears on the rebound If his career was in seriously dire straits after Wimbledon, Pete Sampras bounced back with a vengeance in Toronto. |
Sports Illustrated July 15, 2002 Jon Wertheim |
Saving American tennis Demanding more accountability from the good folks in White Plains. |
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 Central October 16, 2004 Tom Kosinski |
Tennis: A Year (Almost) in Review The best (and worst) of the 2004 tennis season. |
Sports Illustrated March 26, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
More on the Williams controversy As one would expect, the Mailbag remains stuffed with questions about l'affaire Williams, a controversy that, for any number of reasons, has struck a deep and resonant chord. Your various takes were all over the map... |
Sports Illustrated July 22, 2002 Jon Wertheim |
Hardly an epidemic Steroid use is not a huge problem in tennis. |
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 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 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... |
Sports Central September 13, 2009 Tom Kosinski |
Serena's U.S. Open Tirade Costs Her Serena make it look like a default and therefore shift blame. |
Sports Central June 4, 2009 Tom Kosinski |
Open Letter to Serena Williams Serena, you really need a reality check. |
Sports Illustrated August 5, 2002 Jon Wertheim |
No glam, all game Belgium's Kim Clijsters is one of the few players armed with the weapons and blessed with the physique to topple the Williams dynasty. Clijsters has found a way to be a top player without turning every match into a blood feud. |
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 October 9, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
The view on Richard Williams Some interesting responses to my question about why there was, seemingly, so little outrage and righteous indignation regarding the domestic-violence allegations against Richard Williams... |
Inc. September 2003 Nicole Gull |
Venus's Designs Venus Williams is the latest athlete to turn entrepreneur, and she's showing her usual flair. |
Sports Central July 3, 2004 Mert Ertunga |
Federer is One of a Kind Whether you are a fan of baseliners, serve-and-volley style, or an all-court style of tennis, one thing is certain: you will enjoy watching Roger Federer. |
Sports Illustrated June 29, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
Half Volleys Pat Rafter on Australian athletes; Pete Sampras; Alexandra Stevenson; Serena Williams; Lilia Osterloh... |
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 April 8, 2002 Jon Wertheim |
Surprise, surprise Great tennis players rarely scout unfamiliar opponents... |
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 Central October 7, 2004 Mert Ertunga |
Tennis Offseason Reading Picks No tennis to watch? Then read about the game. Tennis books are secret gems that most tennis fans choose to ignore. Here are four worth a trip to the bookstore or library. |
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 July 9, 2002 Rick Reilly |
Double Whammy You cannot be serious, John McEnroe. You cannot mean what you say in your new book. You cannot actually believe you can beat one of the Williams sisters. |
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 December 26, 2011 Tom Kosinski |
Tennis New Year's Resolutions I'll start a new tradition, my tennis New Year's resolutions that hopefully will take off for another two decades. |
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. |