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Why Oudin’s Defeat is a Good Thing

September 10, 2009

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Melanie Oudin did not cry on court after her quarterfinal loss to Caroline Wozniacki. That is a positive sign. It shows strength, it shows resolve, it reminds one of the steeliness of Chris Evert. It will  make her work harder. But that’s not the main reason I think not advancing to the semis and final […]

Tennis Stories I’m Sick Of

September 7, 2009

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1. Roger’s hypothetical faux-slam. Seriously people, he hasn’t won three in a row yet, but you’re already hyping him up for Australia and four in a row, which is being called the completion of a Grand Slam? Some nerve. Martina Navratilova completed the faux-slam but didn’t get credit for it… because it isn’t a grand […]

Lindsay Davenport is 18-1 as a Mom

January 13, 2008

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Chris Clarey over at IHT has a wish list for tennis in 2008. He hopes Maria Sharapova has a healthy shoulder. Clarey says Sharapova’s intensity trumps her screaching and grunting, albeit “barely”. I don’t know Chris, I still have to watch the Shrieky-one with the volume off. If Sharapova gets through to the second round […]