Wimbledon 2014 recalls special memories—for Maria Sharapova and for me
It happened to be one of those days that this tennis fan will remember for a very long time. It was 2004, and a young, tall, pretty teenager took to […]
It happened to be one of those days that this tennis fan will remember for a very long time. It was 2004, and a young, tall, pretty teenager took to […]
It proved to be a frantic 24 hours for Mahesh Bhupathi and his brainchild, the International Premier Tennis League (IPTL)—a brand-new competition styled on cricket’s Indian Premier League. No sooner […]
There was something of a “will she, won’t she” buzz in Rome after Serena Williams pulled out of the Madrid Premier quarter-finals earlier this month with a thigh strain. Would […]
It turned into one of the most unusual post-match press conferences of the year. Novak Djokovic had just beaten Roger Federer in his round-robin match at the World Tour Masters […]
In truth, the tennis achievement of 2013 had its roots more than six months before, in one of Serena Williams’ favourite cities, Paris. For it was there that she would […]
The beginning of 2013 was hardly the most auspicious for Rafael Nadal. He was scheduled to return to the tennis stage for the first time since his gruelling—and what turned […]
Perhaps it was written in the stars back in May when the charismatic David Nalbandian disappeared once again to undergo surgery. For the 31-year-old Argentine—a Wimbledon finalist at the age […]
Billie Jean King spearheaded the creation of the Women’s Tennis Association—the WTA—40 years ago, and it prompted this fan to recall that important decade for King and women’s tennis, and […]
As the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year awards loom on the Christmas horizon, the name on everyone’s lips brought this nation to a standstill one Sunday afternoon in mid-Summer: […]
The end, when it came, had a certain matter-of-fact brevity. The most successful champion and one of the most admired individuals in sport tweeted: Very special day: officially stopped tennis, […]