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Will setback hurt Wickmayer?

Tom Perrotta

...or the whims of a single owner, like other athletes, have little collective power. The ATP and WTA tours don't represent player interests and player interests alone, but also the interests of tournaments and...

Blog Entry | Conversation | December 22, 2009

My best and worst of the almost decade

Peter Bodo

...3 -- only to lose the next nine games running in one of the most extraordinary collapses in WTA history). But it was a different Lindsay at Wimbledon. She played the match of her life there...

Blog Entry | Conversation | December 21, 2009

Yes, we're handing out more 2009 tennis awards

Peter Bodo

...for the upcoming year. If her countrywoman Justine Henin mounts an equally effective comeback, it will be WTA fireworks all year in 2010. Most improved male: It was a tight race, with guys like del...

Blog Entry | Conversation | December 18, 2009

Appreciate expediency of Clijsters' comeback

Abigail Lorge, TENNIS.com

...season that ended with last weekend's Davis Cup final. As I wrote last month in my WTA season round-up, 2009 was a good year for comebacks. And the most compelling of the comeback...

Blog Entry | Conversation | December 10, 2009

More to be thankful for than the Detroit Lions

Peter Bodo

...keeping with the theme of the holiday, let's make a short list of certain ATP and WTA icons we should be thankful for as the tennis year comes grinding to a halt. Roger Federer...

Blog Entry | Conversation | November 25, 2009

Year-end event in London: simply brilliant

Tom Perrotta

...championships with some heft, a grand finale deserving of praise. This is in stark contrast to the WTA's season-ending event in Doha, which played out in front of empty crowds and received little...

Blog Entry | Conversation | November 24, 2009

Team-before-self mentality serves Italians well

Sandra Harwitt, ESPN.com

...Roberta Vinci qualified to play in Bali this week -- the second tier year-end event on the WTA Tour. They sent their regrets and put country before self, something U.S. Fed Cup captain Mary...

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

Triumphs to tears: Assessing the 2009 WTA stars

Abigail Lorge, TENNIS.com

...in Bali and the Italians hosting the U.S. in this weekend's Fed Cup final, the WTA tour's winter break has not officially begun quite yet. But in the blogosphere, 'tis eternally the...

Blog Entry | Conversation | November 05, 2009

Italians pose daunting challenge to young Americans

Ravi Ubha, ESPN.com

...as much. Schiavone is riding a five-match winning streak in the Fed Cup and ended the WTA season on a real high, claiming a second career title and dropping only one of her past...

Blog Entry | Conversation | November 04, 2009

Serena right where she belongs

Peter Bodo

Someone reviewing the major stories of the WTA season could be forgiven for looking back on the brouhaha attending Dinara Safina's tenure as the...

Blog Entry | Conversation | November 02, 2009

Time running out for slumping Venus

Tom Perrotta

Shortly after Venus Williams won Wimbledon in 2005, a victory that ended a three-plus-year stretch without a major title, Richard Williams proudly tol...

Blog Entry | Conversation | October 27, 2009

Does Clijsters deserve exemption into year-ender?

Sandra Harwitt, ESPN.com

...the points race during that year, will be given automatic admittance to the season-ender. But the WTA Tour has different rules. The women don't have this Grand Slam champions special-exception clause, but...

Blog Entry | Conversation | October 26, 2009

Year-end title critical for Safina -- and her reputation

Peter Bodo

...the eight qualifiers who have convened in Doha, Qatar, to hold a tug-of-war for the WTA Sony Ericsson Championships title -- theoretically, the most important title after the four majors. We'll take the...

Blog Entry | Conversation | October 23, 2009

Is the tennis calendar too long?

Sandra Harwitt, ESPN.com

...hope that the shortsightedness doesn't affect the length of careers," said Roddick, who applauds the innovative WTA Tour Road Map instituted this year that was designed to give the women a longer offseason. "I...

Blog Entry | Conversation | October 21, 2009