Flags for ALL the Tennis Players!

18Jul12

Who made tennis an Olympic sport players a back at Wimbledon in 6 weeks who cares …Olympics should be the pinnacle of athletes careers — Didi Hamann (@DietmarHamann) July 9, 2012 Apparently this guy is some important soccer player? Yeah, whatever. Tennis was a part of the inaugural 1896 Olympic Games in Athens but was dropped after […]

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Players’ Olympic Dreams Morph to Nightmares

16Jun12

Many have attempted to make the argument that tennis has no place in the Olympics. Tell that to the players. For months, players have been doing their best to fulfill the ITF requirements for London. A ranking in the top 56 for singles is sufficient, coupled with availability in two Fed Cup or Davis Cup […]

Filed under: David Goffin, Florian Mayer, Julia Goerges, Ksenia Pervak, Mahesh Bhupathi, Marina Erakovic, Mona Barthel, Olympics, Philipp Kohlschreiber, Rohan Bopanna, Sofia Arvidsson, Tamira Paszek   |  1 Comment

From Russia with Love…That’s Slumping

07Apr12

For the past 10 years, Russia has had a large number of players occupying the top spots in the WTA Tour rankings. At the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, Russian women swept the medals with Elena Dementieva winning gold, Dinara Safina taking silver and Vera Zvonareva finishing with bronze. Four years later, the Olympic picture […]

Filed under: WTA, Maria Sharapova, Elena Vesnina, Maria Kirilenko, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Olympics, Vera Zvonareva, Nadia Petrova, Ekaterina Makarova, Dinara Safina, Elena Dementieva   |  Leave a Comment