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9/19/2011 11:35:12 AM Lisa Raymond, the 38 year old American from Pennsylvania won her tenth doubles Major (both women's and mixed doubles) this past week. She sat down with Tennis Now's guest writer, Richard Kent, after her Open win
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7/4/2011 4:09:10 PM With Novak Djokovic’s 6-4, 6-1, 1-6, 6-3 victory against Rafael Nadal at Wimbledon, he's beaten the Spaniard in five major finals this year. Djokovic, who took the No. 1 ranking away from Nadal by advancing to the Wimbledon final, is only the second player who has beaten the Spaniard more than three times in a row.
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5/28/2011 4:05:23 PM As tennis journalists and writers struggle to explain Novak Djokovic’s success this year, the Serb’s new-found gluten-free diet has recently factored into the conversation.
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5/2/2011 11:02:08 AM Over the weekend, on Friday, April 29, the Junior Tennis Foundation will host the 24th annual Eastern Tennis Hall of Fame awards dinner at The Water Club in New York City. This year's inductees include Al Picker. Hear what admirers Justin Gimelstob, John McEnroe, and Bud Collins have to say about this worthy Hall of Famer.
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4/29/2011 3:02:47 PM On Friday, April 29, the Junior Tennis Foundation will host the 24th annual Eastern Tennis Hall of Fame awards dinner at The Water Club in New York City. This year's inductees includes Robert L. Litwin, a senior national and world champion.
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4/26/2011 2:54:35 PM On Friday, April 29, the Junior Tennis Foundation will host the 24th annual Eastern Tennis Hall of Fame awards dinner at The Water Club in New York City. This year's inductees include Melissa Brown, the 1984 French Open singles quarterfinalist and winner of the Wimbledon Ladies' Plate.
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3/1/2011 2:46:19 PM There is an American on the rise up for the challenge of making an impact on WTA singles and doubles. Fun fashioned and talented Bethanie Mattek-Sands started the 2011 tennis season with a bang and looks to make an impact on and off the court. She caught Tennis Now up on the ins and out of her tennis life for an exclusive interview.
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2/10/2011 11:04:13 AM Playing at the Australian Open is a pressure-cooker in more ways than one. It’s the first major of the year, featuring all the best players in the world, alongside a television and live audience that rivals any major international sports event. And, it is also extremely hot, testing even the fittest athletes with on-court temperatures regularly exceeding 120 degrees.
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12/13/2010 12:20:51 PM Professional tennis is about athleticism, about the incredible prize money, about the quest for “Number One” but also and importantly when two players engage in an entertaining match – professional tennis is about theater. And on that score, Monfils loves the stage. Enigmatic, talented, enormous promise, he is perhaps the greatest athlete on the men’s tour.
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11/18/2010 9:59:28 AM Reverberations from the royal revelry gripping London over Prince William's engagement are rippling around the world. Listen closely between the sound of sneakers squealing across the court of London's 02 Arena next week and you'll hear some former champions considering coronation claims in the latest round of the Great Debate.
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10/28/2010 10:51:35 AM Back in the days before bounty hunters, survival specialists and X-Games adrenaline junkies populated reality TV, tennis had its own hard-core, thrill-seeking No. 1 who punished opponents with all the enthusiasm of a demolition expert taking down skyscrapers while peering out at the wreckage from beneath the brim of his baseball cap: Jim Courier.
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10/15/2010 3:12:37 PM Tennis Buzz caught up with Justin for this interview in which he reveals some of the best advice he ever received from Andre Agassi and legendary UCLA basketball coach John Wooden, explains why he believes Andy Roddick would be an ideal player-captain for the US Davis Cup teams, cites his five rules for tennis commentary and recounts his most bizarre tennis experiences.
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10/11/2010 2:33:29 PM In April 2002 an incredibly gifted left hander made his debut at the ridiculously young age of 15 years, 10 months. This 15-year-old year old sporting the lion's mane of long hair kept in place by the ever-present Nike headband, won his first ATP match that day, defeating Ramon Delgado. Two years later in 2004 he met the No. 1 player in the world Roger Federer and defeated him on hard court in Miami in an amazing upset at the time. They would meet far more often in the future, during much more important occasions.
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10/5/2010 2:47:01 PM The New York Times columnist David Brooks could have been talking about John McEnroe this week when he wrote: "Success has a way of depersonalizing its beneficiaries. From the moment kids are asked to subdue their passions to get straight A’s…and climb the ladder, they have an incentive to suppress their passions and prune their souls."
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9/29/2010 11:22:03 AM They slow the ball down, they slow the game down, they get to everything, and rarely hit winners. We are EXPECTED to win, but more often than not they become just another BAD LOSS.
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9/29/2010 10:31:28 AM For the third consecutive year, rain postponed the men’s final to Monday and another round of showers interrupted Rafael Nadal’s four-set final with Novak Djokovic before Nadal finally completed the match to capture his first US Open crown and complete the career Grand Slam in a match that began on CBS, jumped to ESPN2 and lacked the customary post-match interviews as the Grand Slam network was eager to move to its scheduled NFL Coverage.
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9/29/2010 10:23:33 AM Spitting showers took their tired attempts at atmospheric acting to the Jersey Shore, the dancing dual water fountains outside Arthur Ashe Stadium soared in revelry in their last liquid leaps and the man who spends his spare summer days barefoot on the beach was spraying sweat sprinting toward tennis’ watershed moment.
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9/21/2010 2:23:34 PM Nadal, Federer, Djokovic – their forehands, aka the modern forehand, they look totally different from the ones we were taught in (tennis) school many years ago. Books on tennis from the 50’s 60’s and 70’s showed a full and deliberate backswing, and a long (or perhaps tortuous) forward swing with the racquet finishing out in front and pointing to the target. Not all were taught this way, but interestingly the evolution of our game has occurred on two levels – first with the players who have explored various methods and have led by example, and then secondly by the teachers who are sometimes a few years behind the players but finally come to understand and are able to teach others the modern variations on technique.
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8/31/2010 1:14:57 PM Sprinting through the tunnel onto Arthur Ashe Stadium court at the US Open is now like sashaying down the red carpet at the Academy Awards. Like the designers who bring out their spring collections during Fashion Week, August has been a Fashion Month for the women of tennis.
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8/24/2010 2:38:35 PM In his first inaugural address, March 4, 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt, cousin of Tennis Hall of Famer Ellen Crosby Roosevelt, offered those who step up to the baseline the best coaching advice anyone will ever receive: "The only thing [you] have to fear is fear itself."
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8/23/2010 8:27:56 AM As noted in my first report: None of the following is fiction. It's a day-by-day account of my experiences behind the scenes and behind the wheel as a driver for the players at the Farmers Classic tournament in Los Angeles. I decided at the last minute to volunteer for the tournament and picked the transportation department since that would offer the most face time with the players.
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8/20/2010 8:59:46 AM As noted in my first report: None of the following is fiction. It's a day-by-day account of my experiences behind the scenes and behind the wheel as a driver for the players at the Farmers Classic tournament in Los Angeles. I decided at the last minute to volunteer for the tournament and picked the transportation department since that would offer the most face time with the players.
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8/19/2010 8:53:13 AM In the hunt for a year end No. 1 ranking among the world’s juniors is Denis Kudla, who celebrated his 18th birthday on Tuesday. He is sharp-thinking, quick-footed, right-handed and born in Kiev but took some of his earliest steps in Arlington, Va. and he's already had a taste of playing on an iconic sporting stage: Madison Square Garden.
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8/18/2010 8:59:13 AM None of the following is fiction. It's a day-by-day account of my experiences behind the scenes and behind the wheel as a driver for the players at the Farmers Classic tournament in Los Angeles. I decided at the last minute to volunteer for the tournament and picked the transportation department since that would offer the most face time with the players.
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8/5/2010 10:55:10 AM This month I was struck with more inspiration than the clay and grass seasons combined had given me. Unfortunately, my sudden urge to write wasn't due to a brilliant piece on a new upcoming star I hadn't heard of, and neither was it a well-written rebuke of one of my favorites. Instead what had me fired up was yet another narrow-minded article on why female tennis players should not be paid the same as their male counterparts.
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8/5/2010 9:32:12 AM The 90 degree plus temperatures that have plagued the Northeast have kept me off the courts for weeks. The most exercise I’m getting is twiddling my thumbs while waiting for the US Open. And, just as Dinara Safina can’t decide between tennis and chocolate in her 2009 It Must Be Love ad — seated in a chair, she expresses such ambivalence that it makes you feel sad: "Tennis, chocolate cake, tennis, chocolate cake, Tennis!"
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7/23/2010 4:25:17 PM Philadelphia is often viewed as a step sister to New York, but its Philadelphia Freedoms had no trouble prevailing over the Buzz 24-17 in their recent World TeamTennis encounter at suburban Villanova University.
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7/7/2010 9:10:06 AM It wasn't exactly buzz-building book PR — the day Venus Williams' new book "Come To Win: How Sports Can Help You Ace Your Goals and Top Your Profession" was released last week, the five-time Wimbledon champion suffered a shocking straight-sets loss to World No. 82 Tsvetana Pironkova in the Wimbledon quarterfinals.
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7/6/2010 9:04:28 AM Soaring to her 13th career Grand Slam championships with a thorough thrashing in the Wimbledon final, Serena Williams showed she hasn't completed her body of work.
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7/3/2010 11:42:46 AM Richard Krajicek rewrote the record book when he snapped Pete Sampras' Wimbledon reign en route to the 1996 Wimbledon crown.
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7/1/2010 11:46:39 PM The women can turn just about any tennis court into a fashion runway. Despite the restrictive whites-only dress code, the green carpet of Wimbledon is no exception.
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6/11/2010 7:10:43 AM Tennis players often pursue their own rock-star dreams.
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6/9/2010 8:32:06 AM Six years ago, the childhood friends and practice partners walked out onto Court Philippe Chatrier making tracks through tennis history with each step they took.
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6/6/2010 8:28:01 PM Like every televised major, this year’s French Open was crammed with commercials — some of them good and even very good — Ad in. And some of them not so good, but bad, or really awful — Ad out.
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