The USTA today announced that eight-time Grand Slam singles champion Ivan Lendl, former world No. 7 Mardy Fish, and former American Olympian Jill Craybas will begin coaching with USTA Player Development as part of its strategy to involve former champions and top American players in the development of current American pros and juniors. Lendl, Fish […]
pete sampras writes a letter to his 16 year old self
Pete Sampras, one of the best players of all time, has written a letter to his 16 year old self. He preps him for the coming decades and informs him of nutrition trends, that he should be lucky that he is out of the game before Facebook and Twitter and mostly to enjoy the ride. […]
bury the hatchet or fuel the flame?
It has just been announced that this coming February’s BNP Paribas Showdown at Madison Square Garden — in 2010 an event contested by Venus, Ana Ivanovic, Kim Clijsters, and Sveta Kuznetsova — will this time feature Agassi, Sampras, Lendl, and McEnroe in a renewal of their classic rivalries. John and Ivan will play a one-set […]
short balls: thoughts from miami
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Now we are seeing where Jada gets that hair. We were starting to wonder a little… (WTA photo via web site) The past couple weeks were full of tennis glamour in Miami, and Andy Roddick and Kim Clijsters came away from the beaches of Florida with smiles on their faces as they won big-time […]
adidas to re-release tennis racquets
The three stripes of adidas tennis, already seen on clothing and shoes, returns to racquets when the company revives its equipment line — last hawked by legends Ilie Nastase and Ivan Lendl in the 1980s. If you don’t know much about these old adidas sticks, check out the amazing photo trove at 80s-tennis.com. That trefoil […]