Browsing All Posts published on »May, 2009«

ESPN’s Tennis Headlines FAIL

May 28, 2009

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  ESPN’s tennis coverage is generally excellent. (Though as yet unrated for the 09 French) ESPN’s tennis writers are mediocre to good. (That they all write for tennis magazine isn’t a great sign, is it?) ESPN’s headline writers have always been pretty bad. Wednesday’s bad headlines on Sharapova deserve comment because they don’t give her […]

Women Play Tennis, Too

May 27, 2009

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I haven’t forgotten the traveling mediocrity known as women’s tennis, circa 2009. I think Bud Collins over at his blog summed it up better and quicker than I ever could: The women?  It’s a tournament no one can win. I’ll say. The spring was filled with the usual: no one can cement a hold on […]

What Did We Learn from Spring Tennis?

May 27, 2009

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I mean besides the fact that I’m an inconsistent blogger? We learned the ITF had no more backbone than the WTA in geopolitical matters. The ITF runs the Davis Cup and it allowed Sweden to play Israel in Malmo Sweden to a stadium of no spectators because of political protests that were scheduled to disrupt […]