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Yet another year-end best and worst list -- sort of
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...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!", "Nine Best WTA Matches of 2008!" (What...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 12, 2008ATP's new leader will have to be a follower
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...it. If you're hoping some new messiah will emerge to bring bliss to the ATP and tennis fans worldwide, I have news for you: It ain't gonna happen. That's because no hard...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 08, 2008How to preserve the game's top dogs
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...reality of the tournament format. Now ponder this: The only international, individual sport that has anything like tennis' following is boxing. Does the heavyweight champ have to fight his way through a tournament, or all...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 05, 2008Stop bickering about tennis' offseason
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...ends. That's an interesting comment on what can be called the ongoing (and endless) debate about tennis' "offseason" -- or lack thereof. All I can say contemplating the idea that tennis needs a longer offseason...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 01, 2008Having a turkey sandwich in Spain's honor
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...are still on), but one of the things I'm giving thanks for these days is Spanish tennis. The recent Davis Cup triumph by a seemingly overmatched squad is just the latest episode in an...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 25, 2008Nalbandian solely culpable for Davis Cup debacle
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...crashing and splintering sounds you heard? They were the sounds of David Nalbandian's legacy in Argentine tennis crashing all around him. Make no mistake about it, this Davis Cup final was meant to be...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 24, 2008Del Potro just what the doctor ordered
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.comArgentina is by all counts the best tennis nation that has never won the Davis Cup. If you have any doubts about the value of...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 21, 2008Djokovic re-establishes himself as a force
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.comSatisfying endings, like beauty, are in the eyes of the beholder, even though tennis produces them on a week-to-week basis rather than a season-to-season one. Ours is...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 17, 2008Can we fix the fading YEC
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.comNothing speaks as eloquently to the issue of tennis' overlong season than the ongoing Tennis Masters Cup, the year-end championship of the ATP Tour. The...
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 battle -- Gilles Simon...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 10, 2008Masters Cup title would be Fed's perfect ending
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.comIf you thought Roger Federer might follow Rafael Nadal's lead and pull out of the Tennis Master's Cup, you haven't been paying attention to the emerging narrative. Roger Federer has reached...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 07, 2008Nothing but extraordinary satisfied Kantarian
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.comArlen Kantarian is stepping down as the USTA's CEO of Professional Tennis at the end of the year, and in my opinion he was the second most important and...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 31, 2008Sky's the limit for Andy Murray
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...held his 10th annual celebrity charity event at New York's Westchester Country Club, a golf and tennis pro-am that raises money for DebRA, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to fighting and raising...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 23, 2008Simon inconspicuously making his move
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...the inherent interest of the fall season seemed to be in deep jeopardy. Then along came Simon, tennis' latest version of The Little Engine That Could, to mount a stirring and smile-inducing run in...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 20, 2008
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