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US Open: Kim Clijsters Quietly Winning
Sep. 3 | NEW YORK – For being the defending champion, Kim Clijsters certainly has been skirting the headlines at the US Open. On Friday, the talk was all about Hurricane Earl’s impact on New York City, which at least during the day turned out to be all bluster...
There Was Another Hurricane Earl at the US Open
Sep. 3 | The 2010 US Open will feel the outer effects of Hurricane Earl on Friday, but it won’t be the first time the tournament was affected by a hurricane named Earl so to speak. Back in 1951, as documented in my book ON THIS DAY IN TENNIS HISTORY ($19.95,...
Bud Collins Releases Second Edition of his Tennis Record Book and Encyclopedia “The Bud Collins History of Tennis”
Sep. 3 | NEW YORK – Bud Collins, the man who many call the walking encyclopedia of tennis, has released a second edition of his famous tennis encyclopedia and record book THE BUD COLLINS HISTORY OF TENNIS. The 816-page second-edition volume – the...
Déjà Vu for Both Wozniacki and Chang
Sep. 2 | NEW YORK – Talk about bad feng shui. In the opening game, a looping forehand by Carolina Wozniacki was called long. .The top seed from Denmark challenged the call and won, the replay showing the ball bounced right on the baseline. Wozniacki won the...
Five-Setters, Challenges and USTA Player Development at the US Open
Sep. 1 | They don’t keep records on “most five-setters played in a Grand Slam,” and I’m not planning to pour through decades of drawsheets to research it, but there were 13 matches in the first round alone that went the distance,...
Sun Shining on Jamaica; Victoria Azarenka Collapses on Grandstand Court
Sep. 1 | NEW YORK – Jamaica’s Dustin Brown was almost as hot as the broiling sun baking the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center as he blasted his way past Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo 6-4 7-6 (6) 7-5 to post his first Grand Slam tournament victory. “Being...
The US Open – No Longer a Split Personality in Flushing’s Big Tent
Sep. 1 | NEW YORK – As the 43rd season of the chase for dollars rolls toward its crescendo in Flushing (who will come out of it most flush?), few tennis junkies are aware that this monstrocity called the U.S. Open was once-upon-a-time a split personality. Entrace...
USTA Player Development: Where’s the Return on the Investment?
Aug. 31 | I had a sense that that glutted cow known as USTA Player Development has gotten a lot bigger since its inception three years ago, but . . . wow! This morning, primarily because of Harold Solomon’s incisive remarks on Monday about the USTA’s...
US Open Day 2: Results Differ, Satisfaction the Same
Aug. 31 | NEW YORK – Svetlana Kuznetsova is trying to regain her winning ways on the tennis court. Kimiko Date Krumm is just happy to be playing tennis again. On Tuesday, Date Krumm showed flashes of the player who once was ranked fifth in the world. But that...
Two Sides of the US Open
Aug. 30 | NEW YORK – It was just 365 days ago that Dinara Safina came into the US Open Tennis Championships as the number one player in the world. Kim Clijsters, on the other hand, was just returning from a two-year retirement that saw her get married and...
Mondays with Bob Greene: Wozniacki and Murray can Start Their own Bank
Aug. 30 | STARS Sergiy Stakhovsky beat Denis Istomin 3-6 6-3 6-4 to win the men’s singles at the Pilot Pen Tennis in New Haven, Connecticut, USA Caroline Wozniacki beat Nadia Petrova 6-3 3-6 6-3 to win the Pilot Penn Tennis women’s singles Caroline Wozniacki...
