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Welcome the season of red clay. Has the year really progressed that fast? Is it Rafa time already? This year of the 65 ATP events 22 are on clay, so almost one third. Before we get all carried away predicting how the season is going to mould out, let’s take a quick pottery class. The clay court is the Mediterranean gentleman's version of ice hockey, where most share the usual symptomatic … [Read more...]
The 1990's were a golden age for American tennis. Of the 40 grand slams contested between 1990 and 1999, more than half were won by U.S. players. This is by a wide margin the most dominant that any one country has been at the game's highest level since the start of the Open Era. Between October of 1992 and February of 1996, Jim Courier, Pete Sampras, and Andre Agassi traded the number one ranking … [Read more...]
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