Challenge Accepted: My Workout with Vera Zvonareva
View image | gettyimages.com The morning after Wimbledon’s now-infamous “Black Wednesday” was a hazy time for most; fans and pundits were trying to come out from [...]
Tennis Grandstand
Eugenie Bouchard: Young Woman in a Big Girl’s Game
Nearly a year removed from her championship run to the Wimbledon girl’s title, Canadian teenager Eugenie Bouchard has joined the WTA tour looking every bit the part of [...]
Bethanie Mattek-Sands: Unwritten
View image | gettyimages.com One of my earliest tennis-related memories involves me truncating a fifth-grade journal entry to watch a night match during the 2002 US Open. At [...]
Caroline Wozniacki: Sick and Tired
View image | gettyimages.com Caroline Wozniacki won’t beat you with power. She doesn’t have a booming serve to guarantee her easy points. She won’t [...]
The Three Tiers of Triumph at Roland Garros
View image | gettyimages.com At the start of every major tournament, a draw of 128 randomly placed names can be daunting to even the most experienced of tennis fans. It helps [...]
Owning It: Vandeweghe Versus Putintseva
View image | gettyimages.com During many a Real Housewives reunion special, a middle-aged, mildly affluent woman sits in a tight, off-the-shoulder cocktail dress (I’ve [...]
Dust in the Wind: Schiavone and Kuznetsova Continue Their Downward Slides
View image | gettyimages.com Tennis is a cruel sport. A seemingly endless grind, a single season spans nearly ten months across six continents. Where athletes on team sports [...]
“Mama Martina:” Hingis Embraces New Role as Coach
View image | gettyimages.com In a heated debate between parent and child, many a tiger mother has resorted to an ominous prediction in her rhetoric: “Wait until you have [...]
The Kids are on Life Support? Robson Struggles Through Tennis Transition
View image | gettyimages.com If a match is played on a side court and no one is around to watch it, does the result matter? British sensation Laura Robson would prefer they [...]
Serena Williams: Nothing Left To Prove
View image | gettyimages.com As I watched Serena Williams take on Johanna Larsson during last weekend’s USA/Sweden Fed Cup tie, I will admit I was surprised by the [...]
