Island Idols Power Rankings: September 28
Week Two is in the books for our Island Idols. Who joins the list of the best (and worst) in Asia? [...]
Eugenie Bouchard
The Ballad of Wuhan
It was a city of over eight million people. It was a city without a tennis tradition. It was the city of Li Na. [...]
Saturday Night Shots: The Unbroken Bouchard Forehand
Pretty/ugly, Eugenie Bouchard's forehand may not appeal to the eye, but learn how it gets the job done. [...]
#IHaveQuestions: What’s Up With Tournament Volunteers?
One can stroll the grounds or admire the faraway fixings of your average elite tournament and easily get the feeling that these temporary juggernauts run themselves, that a [...]
Semi-Superlatives: Analyzing the Final Four Wimbledon Women
It’s been that kind of major tournament, kids. The kind that’s starting to happen more often, but still feels novel enough not to cause Chaos Fatigue (the likes [...]
So Wrong, Yet So Right: First Blush on the French Open Final
View image | gettyimages.com The French Open Ladies’ final was a travesty. Horrible. Disastrous. Did you watch it? Hopefully you were busy. Everything wrong with tennis [...]
Breaking the Barbie Doll: An Academic Perspective on Sharapova v Bouchard
View image | gettyimages.com Beautiful tennis. Beautiful women. Statements both subjective by the very nature of the descriptor. But are they? We pride our sport on its [...]
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 [...]
