Until the 1970s, the amount of tennis coverage in the US was quite limited. For example, the first "Breakfast at Wimbledon" was in 1979. This was the first live telecast of Wimbledon men's final. It was thought that few would wake up to watch a sporting event, so it was tape delayed. Indeed, for many
Visit any tennis website or any YouTube tennis instructional video and you discover the focus is primarily on technique. It's about how you hit the ball. If you were to take a computer programming class, say, in Java, you'd be essentially taught the grammar of the language. You wouldn't really be taught how to program
The first two Masters 1000 of the season are Indian Wells and Miami. Typically, players like Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray have fared better at these Masters 1000 than Slam stalwarts, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, although Nadal was last year's defending champ. We're going to preview Miami by reviewing the top players and where
ATP World Tour Uncovered is a pretty good tennis program which gets aired on Tennis Channel. It's not a Tennis Channel produced show (it seems the minimum requisite for such a show is to have someone who could have been an ex-model hosting it), but appears to be a show from the UK. This week,
Before people get into a snit about the use of the word evolution, remember the word existed before the theory of evolution and has to with gradual change. Tennis players, it seems, get to where they are because they learn to hit the tennis ball very well at a very young age. As their game
Before we delve into this controversial topic, it behooves us to ask what it means to "play like a woman"? In it's most generic meaning, to play like a woman is to play without athletic talent. If you find a guy that's never thrown a football or a baseball, who prefers tango to tackles, saxophones
If you're in the United States, you're used to team sports. It's so common in the US so important to Americans, that many in the US view sports with a team sports lens. There are other sports which lack a regular season/postseason structure. For those Americans that don't like sports--and there are plenty, or for
For a long time, Roger Federer struggled against two players: David Nalbandian and Lleyton Hewitt. Some say that it was Rafael Nadal that pushed Federer to be better, but it was originally Nalbandian and Hewitt that originally pushed Federer. In the old days, Federer wasn't the baseliner he is today. He altered his game so
In American football, it's said that a good defense beats a good offense. American football, it seems, is a game of errors. The defense attempts to make the offense produce errors that cause the ball to go from the opposition's defense to a favorable position for their own offense. For a long time, tennis was
With the Australian Open already half a day old, Roger Federer has hoisted yet another trophy adding to his bevy of Slam titles. He has long since passed Pete Sampras and now eyes the women champs who were, unlike the men, always head and shoulders above their competition. With each passing Slam, the winds of
