The 2016 PowerShares Series tour, a competitive tennis circuit featuring legendary icons and world-renowned champions, will make a stop in Charleston at the Volvo Cars Stadium during the Volvo Cars Open on Saturday, April 9th. The series, which consists of a 12-city North American tour, will bring an exciting addition to the Volvo Cars Open line-up. The PowerShares Series … [Read more...]
pete sampras writes a letter to his 16 year old self
Pete Sampras, one of the best players of all time, has written a letter to his 16 year old self. He preps him for the coming decades and informs him of nutrition trends, that he should be lucky that he is out of the game before Facebook and Twitter and mostly to enjoy the ride. On his special tennis relationship with Andre Agassi “But when you leave the court for good, there … [Read more...]
philippoussis defeats agassi in 2015 powershares series
Mark Philippoussis defeated Andre Agassi 7-6 (4) in the one-set championship match Tuesday to win the Champions Shootout, the opening event on the 2015 PowerShares Series, at the Huntsman Center at the University of Utah. “A match like this could go either way,” Agassi said following the final. “I had a lot some chances early on and when you get down to a breaker with Mark … [Read more...]
flashback: agassi wins his first, 1992
The same outfits today? Andre Agassi gets inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame today in Newport, R.I. It's no surprise that Agassi, who won eight career Slams, was the no. 1 trending topic on Yahoo! this morning. The dude has done a lot, no? We couldn't help ourselves from putting up this pic, which has several meanings. Our first thought? That's really a … [Read more...]
short balls: the post-wimbledon edition
Changing of the (screen) guard: While the victories of Petra Kvitova and Novak Djokovic marked somewhat of a changing of the guard on the respective tours, the biggest change at Wimbledon came in the week after the tournament was over: in its TV coverage. It was announced earlier this week that ESPN had outbid NBC for full TV rights of the tournament, meaning the peacock … [Read more...]