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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, 2008Three 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, 2008Bad 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, 2008It'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, 2008Champions' 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, 2008Squashed Serbs
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.comIn 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, 2008Battle 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, 2008Not 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, 2008C'mon, Amelie
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.comFor 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, 2008C'mon, Amelie
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.comFor 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, 2008U.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, 2008Tone set for 2008 season
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...like the standard bearers for American tennis need to reassess and perhaps regroup. The rest of the WTA women no longer see the Williamses as unbeatable, and we all know that in tennis, perception is...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 29, 2008Surprise, surprise?
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...has the most compelling story in this group, as well as the most distinguished record. A former WTA No. 1 and multiple Grand Slam winner, she's only in this discussion because she's the...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 07, 2008The man without a Grand Slam
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...any results they accumulated over a pre-determined window of time. That is, the ITF, ATP and WTA should do their homework and come up with a policy that reverses any and all positive results...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 04, 2008Better late than never
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...which female tennis pro got the best Christmas present of all this year: Evonne Goolagong Cawley. The WTA recently realized and immediately admitted (kudos!) that because of some sloppy "bookkeeping" in its computer rankings system...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 31, 2007TOP SEARCHES IN OCTOBER
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