Earning a wild card the right way
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...Open era were Jimmy Connors' riveting run to the U.S. Open semifinals in 1991 and Goran Ivanisevic's long-deferred Wimbledon victory in 2001? Connors and Ivanisevic were both wild-card entries, for...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 05, 2009Crazy to think Federer can win
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...one Roland Garros final (John McEnroe, Stefan Edberg, Michael Stich) and others (Pete Sampras, Richard Krajicek, Goran Ivanisevic, Becker) were lucky to paste the rare, one-time semi or quarterfinal finish. The downside, of...
Blog Entry | Conversation | June 07, 2008Querrey comes up aces
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...to write if you know otherwise. That's right, Querrey did something that neither Pancho Gonzalez, Goran Ivanisevic, Roscoe Tanner, Boris Becker, Pete Sampras nor even Slobodan Zivojinovic (hey, "Bobo" hit aces by the...
Blog Entry | Conversation | July 30, 2007Let's talk about Rafa
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...balls (they changed after a few of those mid-1990s' rock fights between Pete Sampras and Goran Ivanisevic), and today almost all the players are baseliners. The bottom line is that it's never...
Blog Entry | Conversation | June 29, 2007Who wins, and why, on grass
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...as the actual way they played it. Pete Sampras changed all that, with an assist from Goran Ivanisevic. Sampras' ability to dominate on grass with his mighty serve in the mid-1990s launched a...
Blog Entry | Conversation | June 18, 2007Evolution of court speed
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...write that those benumbing (to some) rock fights at Wimbledon between people like Pete Sampras and Goran Ivanisevic led to the slowing of the courts, it isn't entirely accurate. The trend has been...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 11, 2007TOP SEARCHES IN OCTOBER
NFL Expert Picks tops ESPN.com searches in October. Did "goran ivanisevic" make the list?
