Adversity comes with an instruction for Federer
In this history of tennis, there are only a handful of players who can hit every shot with the same elegancy and sophistication and one such player is Roger Federer. His effortless and graceful...
5 Reasons Why Rafa Nadal is so Dominant on Clay
A teenage Rafa Nadal burst onto the scene when he rattled off 24 consecutive victories on clay during the 2005 season. He swept world number one Roger Federer aside in the French...
Maria Sharapova retires from Tennis
Five-Times Grand slam champion has announced her retirement. "Tennis--I'm saying goodbye,"she wrote in an essay that appeared Wednesday in Vouge and Vanity Fair.
The 32-year-old Russian enjoyed a glittering career that saw her complete a...
The Merry Old Land of Woz
Great Dane
Caroline Wozniacki, the Danish superstar from Odense, announced herself on the professional scene in 2005, just two years after her junior career started. Her first Women's Tennis Association (WTA) tour event was the...
The pros and cons of the new Davis Cup format
Ushering in an element of team spirit to an individual sport like tennis is a welcome concept, but still it has not been totally embraced by the players wielding the rackets, recently, at least.
The...
Home Sweet Home- Experience Reigns Once Again in the Davis Cup
It has only been one hundred nineteen short years since members of the Harvard University tennis team challenged the top players from the United Kingdom. In that time the Davis Cup, named after the...
Is This a Case of “Bjorn Again”?
Older fans at tennis matches have recently been nudging each other and asking whether time travel has been invented. There, on the court, they have seen an intriguingly familiar figure. Tall, broad-shouldered and with...
Wimbledon 2019 Preview
It is time for the biggest tennis tournament! Wimbledon 2019 is just around the corner and we are going to witness all the greatest players battle to win this important trophy. Some of the...