A World of Sports Is Coming to Asia
By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY
With the year-end WTA Finals in Singapore, women’s tennis takes the lead in building a future market in the region.
Williams lost, 6-0, 6-2, on Wednesday in an unusually lopsided result for the No. 1 ranked player.
With the year-end WTA Finals in Singapore, women’s tennis takes the lead in building a future market in the region.
The world’s top two women’s players are heading into the year-end finals in Singapore with the No. 1 ranking on the line.
Williams and Sharapova praised the WTA for suspending the president of Russia’s tennis federation for referring to Williams and her sister Venus as “the Williams brothers.”
Federer, who could become the oldest year-end No. 1 in history, also has a chance to help Switzerland win the Davis Cup for the first time.
In women’s tennis today, the shot to watch is not the serve, not the return, but the third shot.
Shamil Tarpischev, a leading administrative figure in Russian tennis, referred to Serena and Venus Williams as “the Williams brothers” on a television program.
The evolution of the tennis racket from wood to graphite has helped transform the sport into a game of power and spin.
Players are increasingly toweling off in between points, which Roger Federer likened to “a security blanket” but which some have criticized as a time-wasting tactic.
In a poll of leading coaches, players and analysts on the best strokes in men's tennis, the usual suspects were all there, but so were some outsiders.
In a survey of the best strokes in contemporary women's tennis, Serena Williams remains in a class of her own.
After years grinding on the junior circuit, the 20-year-old is poised to be one of the sport’s next big stars. Now she just needs that breakthrough win.
But the Swiss winner of the Australian Open, Stan Wawrinka, may be the man to save it.
The primal screams of the players at the United States Open have become an inescapable part of the tournament’s soundtrack.
All eyes will be on Serena Williams and Roger Federer at this year’s United States Open.
The United States has an estimated 250,000 tennis courts, and in such a big and sprawling country, a few of those courts are going to end up in unusual places. We highlight a few of them here.