Sandra Harwitt

Sandra Harwitt

Tennis

Sandra Harwitt is a freelance tennis writer for ESPN.com.

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Team-before-self mentality serves Italians well

Sandra Harwitt, ESPN.com

REGGIO CALABRIA, Italy -- The Cinderella story of the 2009 U.S. Fed Cup team has come to a disappointing end. The dark cloud cover on Sunday matched t...

Blog Entry | Conversation | November 08, 2009

Oudin ready for Fed Cup pressure

Sandra Harwitt, ESPN.com

REGGIO CALABRIA, Italy -- If there's a cloud hanging over the Fed Cup final this week in Reggio Calabria, Italy, it probably centers around whether U....

Blog Entry | Conversation | November 06, 2009

Does Clijsters deserve exemption into year-ender?

Sandra Harwitt, ESPN.com

If Kim Clijsters played tennis on the men's tour, she'd be guaranteed a spot in the season-ending championships as the reigning U.S. Open champion. ...

Blog Entry | Conversation | October 26, 2009

Is the tennis calendar too long?

Sandra Harwitt, ESPN.com

Flashback: 1988, U.S. Open parking lot. A warm late-summer day in New York and the players are heated, but not as a result of the weather. They're u...

Blog Entry | Conversation | October 21, 2009

Nothing ugly about Davydenko in Shanghai

Sandra Harwitt, ESPN.com

SHANGHAI -- Let's face it, Nikolay Davydenko is rarely on anyone's radar screen. That should be surprising since, except for a three-month period th...

Blog Entry | Conversation | October 19, 2009

Premature to declare the end of Roger and Rafa?

Sandra Harwitt, ESPN.com

Is the era of Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer soon to be a thing of the past? That's the suggestion tennis tycoon Andre Agassi put forth this week. N...

Blog Entry | Conversation | October 16, 2009

The many different sides of Novak Djokovic

Sandra Harwitt, ESPN.com

SHANGHAI -- How about the evolution of Novak Djokovic: court jester, petulant child, cerebral and political maestro. And to think, the Serbian is o...

Blog Entry | Conversation | October 14, 2009

Querrey and sidekick enjoying success

Bonnie D. Ford, ESPN.com

Sam Querrey is the U.S. Open Series champ, has a devoted following and now Dan the intern. Could life be better?

Story | Conversation | September 03, 2009

Challenges aplenty for new CEO Allaster

Sandra Harwitt, Special to ESPN.com

Stacey Allaster inherits a healthy organization. But how she maximizes the tour's presence with a lack of WTA star power remains to be seen.

Story | Conversation | July 14, 2009

Murray madness just around the corner

Sandra Harwitt, Special to ESPN.com

The Brits do love their homegrown tennis talent, but is Andy Murray ready to become the first to win Wimbledon since Fred Perry more than 70 years ago? The All England Club waits, impatiently, for the answer.

Story | Conversation | June 11, 2009

Easy route to French Open main draw

Sandra Harwitt, Special to ESPN.com

The voyage to Paris became that much more valuable for Americans John Isner and Lauren Embree, who knocked out their wild-card compatriots for a trip straight to the French Open main draw.

Story | Conversation | May 04, 2009

Allaster's credentials speak loudly

Sandra Harwitt, Special to ESPN.com

Don't expect the WTA Tour's search for its chairman and CEO to mirror the frantic search the ATP conducted earlier this year. All fingers are pointing to current president Stacey Allaster.

Story | Conversation | April 14, 2009

Fish content on, off the court

Sandra Harwitt, Special to ESPN.com

What did Delray Beach reveal? Mardy Fish is flourishing while someone close to Anna Kournikova is making strides.

Story | Conversation | March 02, 2009

No limit to what Nadal can accomplish

Sandra Harwitt, Special to ESPN.com

Rafael Nadal could have surrendered, but he didn't. After an amazing display Down Under, perhaps it's this physical freak who will wind up with the Grand Slam record.

Story | Conversation | February 01, 2009

Seething temperatures wreaking havoc

Sandra Harwitt, Special to ESPN.com

Melbourne Park, with seething temperatures not felt in a century, is like walking into a thermostatic buzz saw. And without the proper physical and metal preparation, consider yourself baked.

Story | Conversation | January 29, 2009