Let’s start with this point: The ATP Cup has not been a failure in its first year. That is an achievement, and no, I am not...
In January, anyone who follows tennis lives in a new world. The world is shaped by the previous season, but the changing of a year and...
Jennifer Brady is known for coming close. She has opened the 2020 tennis season by coming closer to realizing her potential. Jennifer Brady has the ability...
When human beings try to make sense of sports competition, results emerge which test their views and preconceptions. One of the challenges of making predictions about...
We are moving through one of the most uncertain portions of the tennis calendar, the two-week period preceding the Australian Open. There are no Premier Mandatories...
One of the concepts I like to talk about from time to time is “competitive space.” I have written about it multiple times at this website,...
We have to acknowledge — as people who follow tennis — that a new event’s first year won’t necessarily determine how well the event fares, or...
My path first crossed with Justice John Paul Stevens over 20 years ago. Not through the highest court of laws but the courts of tennis. I...
– Rodgers and Hammerstein, from The Sound of Music Like the nuns confounded by Maria von Trapp’s flaunting the abbey’s way of life while they’re simultaneously...
Thanks to the encouragement of my wife, and our friend Paula who lives in Madrid, I am in Madrid to attend the first edition of the...
