Tennis
Sep. 2 | By Leigh Sanders
Watching my TV set yesterday evening as the sun began setting behind the beautiful South Wales hills, I watched a tanned little beauty dismantling Chinese star Zheng Jie, the No. 21 seed.
As I watched a confident young lady slam home...
Jul. 19 | By Leigh Sanders
Speaking to a tennis-mad relative this week we were discussing last weekend’s inductions at the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, RI, and how fans were staying away because the players on show weren’t considered ‘A-list’...
Jun. 29 | By Ritesh Gupta
Venus Williams deserves the every bit of attention she gets from all the quarters. Be it for her exploits on the WTA Tour, her collection of seven Grand Slam singles titles or her tenure at the top, she deserves all the adulation for her...
Jun. 24 | By Leigh Sanders
Every once in a while something happens in the world of sport which has you laughing to yourself, completely in disbelief about what is taking place before your very eyes.
Most weeks I find myself stood at Cardiff City Stadium wondering...
Feb. 12 | Superstar skier Lindsey Vonn is a big fan of Roger Federer.
The darling of the U.S. Olympic team and the Sport Illustrated cover girl, however, needs to take note of a past performance from Pete Sampras in order to achieve ultimate Olympic glory.
Vonn,...
Jan. 14 | By Leigh Sanders
“Money makes the world go around,” or so the old saying tells us.
As 2010 opens across a planet stuck in recession as Third World debt is joined by those supposedly developed countries whose industries compete to see who can lose...
Sep. 22 | Roger Federer
Roger Federer’s reign as US Open champion is over. The Swiss maestro’s quest to win a sixth straight US Open men’s singles title came to an end Monday as Argentina’s Juan Martin del Potro defeated the world No. 1 3-6, 7-6 (5),...
Aug. 25 |
Rod Laver
NEW YORK, N.Y., August 24, 2009 – New Chapter Press today announced that in the 40th anniversary year of Rod Laver’s second Grand Slam, it will publish the Australian’s memoir of his historic 1969 achievement –...
Jul. 5 | ***Man, it has not been a good July for boxing and football. First, Nicaraguan boxing legend Alexis Arguello allegedly commits suicide and then former Tennessee Titans and Baltimore Ravens quarterback Steve McNair was violently slain in his home.
Arguello:...
Feb. 2 | By Alex
The thing about tennis is more than most sports I can think of, you can actually witness with your own eyes the rise and fall of greatness.
The rise and decline of great empires are slow moving in their evolution making it hard for us mortals...