THE TIMES: ANDY RODDICK ISN’T ALL BAD
Andy Roddick retired from his semifinal match against James Blake at the Queen’s Club tournament on Saturday, after he rolled his ankle on court. It was bad news for tennis fans looking for an Andy vs....
View ArticleROGER FEDERER TELLS US ALMOST EVERYTHING
Don’t duck! Don’t take cover! A MAJOR Roger Bomb is about to explode!!! Winning his 14th Major has evidently put Roger Federer in a gregarious mood, judging from the extensive Q&A he did for the...
View ArticleAMERICAN TWIST: THE AMAZING LIFE OF WIMBLEDON’S TRIPLE CROWN QUEEN
Winner of Wimbledon’s triple crown in 1939, American Alice Marble was the tennis world’s original Glamazon. Living a life as big as her game, the 18-time Grand Slam champ shagged balls with Joe...
View ArticleLOVE MATCHES: TENNIS PLAYER COUPLES HEATING UP OFF COURT
Roger & Mirka and Steffi & Andre may have formed the ultimate tennis love-matches, but there are many more tumultuous examples: Kim Clijsters & Lleyton Hewitt, Jimmy Connors & Chris...
View ArticleROGER FEDERER BABY NEWS: IDENTICAL TWINS, PRIVATE JETS AND EATING FOR TWO
An amazing article in the New York Times reveals a number of intimate details about the newly formed Federer family. Obviously, click here and read the whole thing. This post is just an excuse to...
View ArticleTWIN TALES: THE BRYAN BROTHERS IN THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE
Photo by Dewey Nicks for The New York Times The Bryan Brothers got the Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer treatment in the latest New York Times Magazine. The lengthy article by Eric Konigsberg is called...
View ArticleREQUIRED READING: HAS ROGER FEDERER BRAINWASHED THE ATP TOUR?
Steve Tignor wrote an interesting viewpoint piece at tennis.com with the title “Excessive civility muting the men’s game?” Have you read it already? If not, click here. If you have, can you please...
View ArticleREQUIRED READING: THE MARTINA HINGIS DEFENSE
Today is Martina Hingis’s 29th birthday and the last day of her two-year drug suspension. Jon Wertheim has an interesting interview with her posted on the Sports Illustrated website. Click here to read...
View ArticleTHE GREAT FEDERER VS. NADAL DEBATE: ASTERISK AVERSE
Tennis.com’s Peter Bodo wrote a piece this week about the Federer vs. Nadal rivalry called “Homeless Rafa.” To summarize, Bodo thinks that Rafael Nadal’s ongoing injury issues have allowed Roger...
View ArticleREQUIRED READING: THE UNTOUCHABLE MIRKA FEDERER?
We’ve often chatted here at GTT about Mirka – her cardigans, her stamina in the players’ box, her addiction to chewing gum. Today it was The Oregonian‘s Douglas Perry, author of quite a few recent...
View ArticleREQUIRED READING: ROGER FEDERER WAS WORRIED, JUST FOR A SECOND
Last year’s Miami tournament was a lowlight for Federer fans. Still smarting from that tough five set loss to Rafael Nadal in the 2009 Australian Open finals, we’d sat through Roger’s back injury...
View ArticleREQUIRED READING: THE CASE AGAINST WAYNE ODESNIK, THE ATP AND THE ITF
American tennis player turned Human Growth Hormone smuggler, Wayne Odesnik, released a statement during last week’s U.S. Men’s Clay Court Championships in Houston denying that he ever used the banned...
View ArticleBOOK REVIEW: HARDCOURT CONFIDENTIAL BY “PERFECT” PATRICK MCENROE
2009 was a golden year for the tennis book, giving us three fantastic reads: Jon Wertheim’s Fedal tribute, Strokes of Genius; Marshall Jon Fisher’s illuminating tennis history A Terrible Splendor; and...
View ArticleRAFAEL NADAL’S TOP SECRET TRAINING REGIMEN, CAKE
The Wall Street Journal published an interesting article on Rafael Nadal’s training regimen and the philosophy of Team Nadal, which consists of his doctor Angel Ruiz Cortorro, Manacor based gym teacher...
View ArticleREQUIRED READING: TAKING MEASURE OF FEDERER VS. NADAL
It’s rare to read anything new and provocative when it comes to Federer vs. Nadal. That’s why I really enjoyed Carl Bialik‘s recent piece in The Wall Street Journal: The Federer-Nadal Rivalry,...
View ArticleANNACONE ON FEDERER SPLIT: ROGER ISN’T PANICKING
Peter Bodo interviewed Roger’s now former coach, Paul Annacone, on the reasons behind the split and Roger’s current state of […]
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