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Djokovic re-establishes himself as a force

Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com

...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 surprises that...

Blog Entry | Conversation | November 17, 2008

Twilight Zone headline grabbers

Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com

...one winner who might be called the exception that proves the rule: The Stuttgart champ and current WTA world No. 1, Jelena Jankovic. Given the way the fall has gone these past few years, it...

Blog Entry | Conversation | October 06, 2008

Fall results will have a significant impact

Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com

Can this be the year some of the big dogs -- and dogettes -- remember that the rankings points earned after September are just as valid as the ones ea...

Blog Entry | Conversation | September 29, 2008

It's up to the players to make Roadmap work

Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com

A critical announcement by the WTA was lost in the smoke and din of the tennis battlefield at Flushing Meadows two weeks ago...

Blog Entry | Conversation | September 15, 2008

Olympic tennis has it's own challenges and rewards

Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com

...The entry system is different too, and not entirely merit-based (as are the standard ATP and WTA Tour entry regimens). Each country is limited to four players, meaning that tennis-rich nations Spain, Russia...

Blog Entry | Conversation | July 11, 2008

Three reasons Venus will win

Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com

...ago, and it will show. 2. Venus' superior defense: Jelena Jankovic is the only woman on the WTA Tour who can cover the court as well as Venus. Those long legs of Venus' eat up...

Blog Entry | Conversation | July 04, 2008

Bad case of spring fever for WTA

Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com

...the calm before the Roland Garros storm served up a vivid snapshot of where the ATP and WTA are as institutions. In Hamburg, Germany, Rafael Nadal survived another gut-wrencher to snatch a three-set...

Blog Entry | Conversation | May 19, 2008

It's been a cold spring for the WTA

Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com

...blooming, Rafael Nadal is opening his red-clay can of whup-ass left and right, and the WTA has happily sailed off into the Bermuda Triangle. Have you noticed? Or does the headline, "Medina Garrigues...

Blog Entry | Conversation | May 02, 2008

Champions' fatigue

Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com

...be as dominant as his two main rivals have been until the beginning of this year. The WTA situation is comparable, albeit on a smaller scale. Justine Henin remains the woman to beat, but you...

Blog Entry | Conversation | April 07, 2008

Squashed Serbs

Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com

In a welcome respite from the most familiar plotline of them all, it's the giants who are doing all the killing this time. Kevin Anderson, a 6-foot-7 ...

Blog Entry | Conversation | March 30, 2008

Battle of the ball-bouncers

Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com

...the least enforced rule in tennis, the 25-second rule. (Actually it's only 20 seconds for WTA and the ITF.) This rule has been largely ignored mostly because a natural pace tends to emerge...

Blog Entry | Conversation | March 21, 2008

Not exactly Kournikova

Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com

...and snotty about Anna Kournikova, who, like Paris Hilton, became a huge celebrity without ever winning a WTA singles title. But Kournikova won a doubles Grand Slam, made the Wimbledon semis, and was a legitimate...

Blog Entry | Conversation | March 03, 2008

C'mon, Amelie

Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com

For some years now, the WTA Tour has been specializing in stories that make you sit back, scratch your head, and ask, "What...

Blog Entry | Conversation | February 29, 2008

C'mon, Amelie

Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com

For some years now, the WTA Tour has been specializing in stories that make you sit back, scratch your head and ask, "What...

Blog Entry | Conversation | February 29, 2008

U.S. missing the boat

Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com

...Andy Roddick played San Jose, Rafael Nadal was in Rotterdam and David Nalbandian labored in BA). The WTA ladies had two tournaments, with the one in Santander, Colombia, overshadowed by the big event in Doha...

Blog Entry | Conversation | February 25, 2008