by Matt Zemek In August, Roger Federer turned 37. Though this Golden Era of men’s tennis is running out of time, and though the days of...
by Matt Zemek When he came to the 2010 U.S. Open, Novak Djokovic had a perfectly solid and respectable career — actually, something much more than...
by Matt Zemek Bjorn Borg has been surpassed by Rafael Nadal for the title of “best male clay-court player of all time.” As in any instance...
by Matt Zemek It can be construed as a subtle dig at an athlete: the notion that a player “outlasts” her opponents. I understand why the...
by Matt Zemek Martina Navratilova won her first Wimbledon in 1978 as an enormously gifted but still chubby and naive person who had not yet reinvented...
by Anand Mamidipudi Like Saqib, I became enamored with tennis in the mid-eighties. My earliest memories date back to watching John McEnroe win Wimbledon in 1984,...
by Saqib Ali When I was introduced to the sport in the mid eighty’s and it was commonly referred to as Lawn Tennis. Grass court...