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Sports Illustrated
May 24, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
Breaking down the French Open draw Predictions for the French Open.   |
Sports Illustrated
June 20, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
Breaking down the Wimbledon draw The author peers into his crystal ball to reveal the fate of the top 16 men's and women's seeds for Wimbledon |
Sports Illustrated
August 23, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
Breaking down the U.S. Open draw The author predicts the fate of the top 16 men's and women's 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
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 23, 2001
Jon Wertheim |
Breaking down the U.S. Open draw Predictions for the men's side of the U.S. Open... |
Sports Illustrated
August 25, 2000
Jon Wertheim |
Breaking down the U.S. Open Mens' 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
May 31, 2001
Jon Wertheim |
Chat Reel Might be time for Sampras to stop playing French... |
Sports Illustrated
January 11, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
Breaking down the Aussie Open draw The author peers into his crystal ball to reveal the fate of the top 16 men's seeds for the Australian Open... |
Sports Illustrated
May 28, 2000
Jon Wertheim |
Previewing the men Break down of the men's draw at this year's French Open, predicting how the seeds will fare and looking at some darkhorses and intriguing opening matchups... |
Sports Illustrated
January 12, 2001
Jon Wertheim |
Breaking down the Aussie Open draw Analysis of the women players. |
Sports Illustrated
January 12, 2001
Jon Wertheim |
Breaking down the Aussie Open draw Analysis of the male players. |
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
April 22, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
Will Agassi play Davis Cup? Pat McEnroe is going to try his best to make sure this fantasy is realized. Agassi swore off Davis Cup like a bad habit after the 2000 fiasco... |
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 men'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
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
June 3, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
Halfway home Like the annual crop of Beaujolais, the second week of the French Open est arrive. As Andre Agassi is fond of saying, it's like a new tournament now. Still, on a slow day at the courts, let's hand out some midterm grades |
Sports Illustrated
June 10, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
Capriati is at a loss There are a million cheap shots I'll avoid making at J-Cap's expense (being in Paris makes one softer than brie). But let's just say that she hasn't exactly grasped the nuances of the rankings system. |
Sports Illustrated
May 28, 2000
Jon Wertheim |
Previewing the women Break down of the women's draw at this year's French Open, predicting how the seeds will fare and looking at some darkhorses and intriguing opening matchups... |
Sports Illustrated
August 20, 2001
Jon Wertheim |
Solving the rankings riddle As a USTA poster boy, rest assured Andy Roddick will be playing every match on a show court. He's popping serves, bludgeoning his groundies and moving well. More impressive, he's been showing poise that belies his age... |
Sports Illustrated
January 30, 2001
Jon Wertheim |
Wrapping up Australia All credit to Jennifer Capriati for authoring such a great story -- and easing the guilt of so many. Lost amid the Cinderella hype: Her tennis was unparalleled... |
Sports Illustrated
June 22, 2000 |
Previewing Wimbledon's women Sports Illustrated staff writer Jon Wertheim breaks down the women'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
June 29, 2001
Jon Wertheim |
Chat Reel Hingis' Wimbledon woes are largely mental... |
Sports Illustrated
May 20, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
Safin doesn't have killer instinct Until Marat Safin learns to hate losing in the way that others do -- Lleyton Hewitt being the most obvious example -- he will underachieve on the court... |
Sports Central
August 25, 2006
Ricky Dimon |
Previewing a Potentially Thrilling U.S. Open The U.S. Open Draw Ceremony recently took place, producing a 128-man bracket laced with potential matchups to salivate over and script-defying storylines. |
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
January 8, 2001
Jon Wertheim |
Breaking out all over Women (and men) on the verge of a breakout year ought to include: Juan Carlos Ferrero, Kim Clijsters, Nathalie Dechy, Justine Henin, Roger Federer... |
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
March 12, 2001
Jon Wertheim |
Guga, Guga and more Guga Last week I explained that the reason Gustavo Kuerten is seldom discussed here -- relative to his ranking, anyway -- is because I rarely receive questions that pertain to him. Apres moi, le deluge... |
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
May 13, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
Williams vs. Graf How do you feel a 25-year-old Graf would have faired against Venus Williams? |
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
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
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 Illustrated
January 29, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
ATP needs new marketing strategy The tour tries desperately to cultivate "stars" and "personalities," yet the first major was won by a Swedish veteran who repeatedly described himself as bland and who reacted to the biggest win of his life by grinning and approaching the net to shake his opponent's hand... |
Sports Illustrated
July 8, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
Wrapping up Wimbledon Some random ruminations from a random Wimbledon. |
Sports Central
May 25, 2006
Ricky Dimon |
French Open Preview: Nadal Repeat? The ingredients are there for a miracle of Kuertenian and Verkerkian proportions to take place once again on the hallowed grounds of Roland Garros. |
Sports Illustrated
January 14, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
Australia field is ailing We hear legislation will soon be afoot to include a Surgeon General's warning: Playing professional tennis can be hazardous to your health. Here we are, the first month of the season and the Australian Open field has been denuded like an Oregon forest... |
Sports Illustrated
June 30, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
Midterm grades It was a typically wacky first week at Wimbledon. (And Richard Williams and his greaseboard weren't even around.) On the vacant middle Sunday, as the grass gets tended to and Mother Nature, thus far benevolent, devises her game plan for Week 2, we distribute our midterm grades. |
Sports Illustrated
April 29, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
Inside the Fed Cup controversy On the Billie Jean King/House of Capriati battle royal... |
Sports Central
October 30, 2003
Mert Ertunga |
"Hitters and Missers" of 2003 Looking back on the 2003 tennis season. |
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 Central
January 11, 2008
Ricky Dimon |
Will Federer Finally Sink Down Under? Tennis fans want see someone other than Nadal or Federer win. |
Sports Illustrated
January 21, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
Hewitt needs to be more media-friendly Tennis star Lleyton Hewitt is locked in mortal combat with the Australian media. I'm assuming that when he's Up Over, he'll be more accommodating... |
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
October 9, 2000
Jon Wertheim |
Overdue accolades Congrats to all those tennis players who had the mettle to medal... |
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 6, 2006
Mert Ertunga |
The Crystal Ball's 2006 Tennis Predictions Thirteen predictions for tennis in 2006. |
Sports Illustrated
September 23, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
Compare and contrast Comparing tennis players from different vintages is the most inexact of sciences. A million variables come into play. |
Sports Central
May 25, 2007
George Soules |
Why Federer Still Has Something to Prove Is Roger Federer as great as they say? Or is the competition these days not what it once was? |
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. |
