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From The Vault: Monica Seles
Only a few weeks ago I randomly decided re-read Monica Seles’ first auto-biography for the first time since I was barely able to comprehend the contents. So often we criticize athletes and celebrities...
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Serena Williams Changes Her Spots Again
There she stands again; trophy in hand, smile on face and right leg bent just that tiny bit at the knee as she assumes the pose. As always, Serena Williams is accompanied by a taller but less enamored...
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Benoit Paire And The Pursuit Of Sanity
On some cold winter’s day once upon a time, a tennis coach found himself in the bizarre position of attempting to convince his charge to undertake exactly what he had hired a coach for – competing at...
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Sloane Stephens Criticizes Serena Williams Once More. It Must Be Thursday.
Either every single reporter across the entire 313.9 million strong population of the USA is conspiring against Sloane Stephens to publish as many damning off-the-record quotes of her criticizing...
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Piotr Wozniacki Retires From Professional Tennis (Coaching)
In a year that has already forced the world of sport to deal with the deeply-bruising blow of losing the great Sir Alex Ferguson to retirement, a second uppercut has landed squarely in its chin with...
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Is Serena Williams Headcase-y?
A pout – it always begins with that pout. Slowly the pout morphs into a frown, which in turn makes way for the infamously melodramatic “crying face”. Before long, loud and pitifully desperate sound...
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Marion Bartoli’s Final Flourish
There is nothing more perpetually frightening in women’s tennis than the sight an opponent, finally free from all the crippling shackles of nerves bred by pressure, bombastically swinging back from...
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A Dirtballing Hell – By Lourdes Dominguez Lino and Alexandra Dulgheru
If the crusty, flickering and static security camera that provided the pictures for this monumental matchup didn’t, in itself, shrilly scream out “DO NOT ENTER” to those who attempted to watch; then...
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But Just How Successful Was Maria Sharapova Under Thomas Hogstedt?
By Wimbledon, the desperation had escalated. Maria Sharapova had successfully completed her conquest of The Rest, arriving at The Championships on a 31-match winning streak against all but one player....
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Audible Obscenity: The Legend of Sesil Karatantcheva
As night fell in Bulgaria’s capital, a sickly sinister haze swept across its streets, swooping and swirling as it stole into every home, indiscriminately engulfing each inhabitant in turn and...
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