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If, like me, you’ve been remiss on your tennis.com reading lately, I highly suggest you check out the recent Q&A with Gavin Rossdale, husband to Gwen Stefani, true love to Roger Federer. I never liked the guy’s band, but reading this interview makes me love him as a tennis fan. Sure, he’s rich, famous and [...]
Continue Reading →Athletes of all levels and sports will take a keen interest in this fascinating and tennis-centric piece that ran in the New York Times’ Play magazine section this past weekend. (Click here to read it.) It turns out that touching your toes and performing other old-school stretching exercises during your warm up is a bad, [...]
Continue Reading →Maybe it’s all the U.S. Open buzz, but there’s a slew of fascinating articles out right now about the identity of our beloved sport – past, present and future. Take a gander: The headline of this BBC article says it all “Can tennis be less middle class?” Hint, the LTA’s considering a “Tennis Idol.” Click [...]
Continue Reading →It seems like all of NYC has gone tennis crazy and this fun piece from Page Six Magazine confirms it. Click here to read more about Charlize Theron’s tennis smarts, Colin Farell’s seat hopping, tennis dad’s throwing salmon in the the player’s restaurant, and my favorite – hidden Indian food near Court 11! ENJOY!
Continue Reading →There hasn’t been much to fawn over lately for us Fed Fans, which is why Joel Drucker was smart to write this appreciation of Roger’s 10 most “spectacular moments.” Click here to read the article, and indulge in some Fedophile nostalgia. The author left out one of my favorites – the 2006 Aussie Open trophy [...]
Continue Reading →Click here for an interesting article from the Business Sports Journal about the ATPs efforts to replace their lucrative Mercedes sponsorship (Mercedes is bowing out in December.) Here’s the lede: The ATP World Tour is in advanced talks with global insurance giant Aviva to take over the main sponsorship of the men’s tennis circuit next [...]
Continue Reading →I love, love Jon Wertheim, not least because he answers my emails and gave my blog some big-time props in his Tennis Mailbag column last year. But what I really admire him for is his writing, and I’m thrilled to learn that he’s working on a book about the Federer-Nadal rivalry, with last week’s Wimbledon [...]
Continue Reading →Well, there’s more to Wimbledon than who wins, and I think Jon Wertheim’s “50 things” article captures the feel of the entire tournament quite well. Click here to read about people getting locked in closets, $3.00 apples and yes, Marat’s lawn! Enjoy!
Continue Reading →I’m really getting into this Janko Tipsarevic guy (I realize I caught the bandwagon late!) The man is smart, well-spoken and thoughtful. Perhaps he’ll replace Justin Gimelstob on Tennis Channel some day. Click here for the text of his post Andy-beating press conference, for more gems like this: Q. Is this (hunger to win) linked [...]
Continue Reading →I really liked this Q&A that Roger did for tennis.com. It’s a non-sensationalized meditation on his “slump”, mono, his lifetime goals, his history as a tennis player and even his body (evidently he knows some “big secret” on how to treat muscle pain – will he be selling this on late night infomercials come retirement?) [...]
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