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Gasquet continues to screw up his career
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...he first appeared on the radar in 2002, when, two months before his 16th birthday, he beat ATP pro Franco Squillari. The sobriquet seemed a prophecy when he scored an upset of Roger Federer himself...
Blog Entry | Conversation | May 11, 2009Safina the beneficiary of a failed system
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...the one to which Marat belongs. Dinara is one of just five players who became the official ATP or WTA No. 1 without having won a Grand Slam event before hitting that landmark ranking. The...
Blog Entry | Conversation | April 20, 2009Five imperative questions heading into the clay
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...the next four acts end with, in order, Roland Garros, Wimbledon, the U.S Open and the ATP and WTA Tour championships (and Davis Cup final). So what are the five major questions going into...
Blog Entry | Conversation | April 10, 2009Appalling solidarity in Peer saga
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...the WTA players rally around their flag -- and their wronged player. They did not. In 1973, The ATP men boycotted Wimbledon over a far less explosive issue, and the willingness of most of the top...
Blog Entry | Conversation | February 23, 2009Was Oz Federer's last stand?
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...well as being No. 3 on Nadal's world conquest to-do list. The majority of the ATP tournaments and two of the four majors are played on hard courts, and as long as Federer...
Blog Entry | Conversation | February 02, 2009Is Helfant ready to lead the ATP brigade?
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.comThe ATP has a new executive chairman and president, former Nike honcho Adam Helfant. The relative youth of the...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 12, 2009Nothing wrong with players easing into new year
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...of any of the other Australian Open warm-up events. In fact, there isn't anything but ATP 250-level events until the first major of the year. The winner of a 250 gets a...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 02, 2009Tennis topics to help you survive the holiday party
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...presents both opportunity and pressure. 4. Who, if anyone, among the new generation of talents on the ATP side is going to step up and build on 2008? OK, Andy Murray, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Juan...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 15, 2008Yet another year-end best and worst list -- sort of
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...bested out. Everywhere I turn, people are churning out their annual year-in-review lists: "10 Best ATP Matches of 2008!", "The Best New Tennis Prospects for 2009!", "Five Most Memorable Moments of the Year...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 12, 2008ATP's new leader will have to be a follower
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...profile sporting events (including Wimbledon). Salary is negotiable. That's roughly how a want ad for the ATP CEO's job might read, but we know the reality lurking beneath the gloss. Let's translate...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 08, 2008Stop bickering about tennis' offseason
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...the schedule of a typical top player (the relatively short time between the end of one official ATP or WTA year and the beginning of the next), under today's ramped-up level of competition...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 01, 2008Del Potro just what the doctor ordered
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...in this tie: Juan Martin del Potro. In the weeks after Wimbledon, del Potro won four consecutive ATP events, finally running out of gas at the U.S. Open -- yet even there, he hammered his...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 21, 2008Djokovic re-establishes himself as a force
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...one. Ours is the convenience store of sports; it's open all the time, even though the ATP and WTA championships are notional year-end playoffs. While the Tennis Masters Cup bubbled with subplots and...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 17, 2008Can we fix the fading YEC
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...issue of tennis' overlong season than the ongoing Tennis Masters Cup, the year-end championship of the ATP Tour. The concept of a YEC playoff was introduced in 1970 as the logical conclusion of a...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 14, 2008TOP SEARCHES IN OCTOBER
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