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Tennis 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, 2008Players have plenty of incentive at Masters Cup
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.comWell, the early returns suggest that the "election" of the Tennis Masters Cup champion this year is going to be an unpredictable and fiercely fought b...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 10, 2008Masters Cup title would be Fed's perfect ending
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...the majors. But when the Masters ended its long run in New York (1989) and became the ATP Tour Championships, it began to lose some of its luster. In the interim, the tournament moved from...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 07, 2008Sky's the limit for Andy Murray
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...from the conqueror of Rafael Nadal, Gilles Simon. Murray must be the most improved player on the ATP Tour for 2008, although I suppose we ought to hold off making that judgment until after the...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 23, 2008Simon inconspicuously making his move
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...highlight. And Simon, who's just as spent physically and fried mentally as everyone else on the ATP Tour, has been throwing his heart and soul into the effort. The 23-year old native of...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 20, 2008Most influential people of the Open era
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.comSince we're celebrating 40 years of Open tennis, it's appropriate to look at some of the most influential people of the era, so let's get right to wor...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 13, 2008Fall results will have a significant impact
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...made the most of it. He beat Djokovic to earn -- believe it or not -- his very first ATP Tour title. So much for all those comparisons to Anna Kournikova, eh? In addition to improving his...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 29, 2008It's up to the players to make Roadmap work
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...We've been through restructuring and even notorious "alphabet wars" before (pitting groups like the ITF, USTA, ATP and others in combat), and it always comes down to the same thing: The tour is only...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 15, 2008Admit there's a problem, Federer
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...won't happen. For one thing, only one player of the 10 sampled by Greg Sharko, the ATP's stat guru, won the first Grand Slam event he played after first assuming the top ranking...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 22, 2008TOP SEARCHES IN NOVEMBER
Bowl Projections tops ESPN.com searches in November. Did "atp" make the list?