Hold on to your pants, Andy Murray has agreed to play for Great Britain in the next Davis Cup match. Amazing! I know this news is a couple days old…I’m not sure how I skipped over it in the headlines. I usually jump at the chance to hang out with my good ole buddy Andy […]
Sporting events are such a funny thing. They’re hyped up. People look forward to them. People speculate. And then they fall apart when a vital piece of the puzzle falls off the wagon. I think it’s something a lot of people don’t realize. Sports are a finely-tuned machine and when one of the cogs on […]
There are probably a lot of men out there who have man crushes on Roger Federer.
That’s not what I’m here to talk about.
The end of 2003 saw Roger part ways with his coach, Peter Lundgren, but he [Roger] didn’t want to hit up the 2004 Aussie Open alone. So Federer gave his long-time friend Reto Staubli […]
As I’m sure you noticed, Rackets and Balls has been experiencing some technical difficulties over the past couple days. I do appreciate your patience and understanding…there’s nothing quite so frustrating as a webpage that won’t come up. Believe me, I totally understand - I’m one of those people that hits the refresh button 20 times […]
There’s another job opening for all you tennis coaches out there. Yiannos Hadjigeorgiou cited personal reasons when he stepped down from his perch as Marcos Baghdatis’ coach and really didn’t have much to say beyond that. Hadjigeorgiou will continue coaching Baghdatis as the Davis Cup team captain.
Hadjigeorgiou took the Baghdatis job in May of 2007 […]
It didn’t have a pretty start but the United States survived Germany in the quarterfinals of the Fed Cup and will be facing the Russians in the semifinals at the end of April. Time to get scared? I’m going to give that an affirmative.
Russia has its front-line battling for them. Maria Sharapova hasn’t lost a […]
Sometimes I wonder why controversy has to happen. It’s tennis, people. Just go out and play and work out your frustrations on the court.
But then I think…bring on the controversy. It gives me something to write about.
This week’s Negative Newsie is Sania Mirza from India. Mirza released a statement that boiled down to her boycotting […]
Lindsay Davenport didn’t look so good in the Fed Cup. Davenport came into the competition with a career 31-2 Fed Cup record. This event? It’s her powerhouse.
But in the quarterfinal match-up between the United States and Germany in the Fed Cup, Sabine Lisicki dispatched Davenport 6-1, 7-5.
“I wish I did [have an explanation for her […]
Sports. We love them, right? I know I wrote earlier about how I fell in love with the game of tennis and this time, I want to speak a little more broadly about my relationship with sports. It’s a love/hate relationship. It’s up, and it’s down. When you’re winning (or your team or person is winning), you’re […]
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Written by Erica Beck [email] for b5media.
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