Daniel Kaplan at SportsBusiness Journal is all over the lawsuit filed the organizers of the Hamburg tournament against the ATP. At the core of this debate is whether the ATP is seen as a professional league (which, under U.S. law, is allowed to collude and pool television rights, set schedules, and set terms for athlete […]
Trophy Watch: the last of the pre-French clay contests
(This post is timestamped for last week, but showing up this week, so those consuming via RSS might get thrown off. I apologize for any trouble…) Both the men and the women played out the last of their French Open warmups in Germany and Italy this week. Rafa Nadal cemented his spot in the third […]
fashion: safin and haas in old-school white, nike’s mcenroe shirt, and dressing like a dandy
You can even sew your own underwear: Patterns From the Past, a blog specializing in historical dress pattern research, devotes a whole post to tennis wear of yore. Some kits even have instructions for making visors and skivvies. Hamburg, revisited: Have you seen these vid clips of Tommy Haas and Marat Safin in old-school tennis […]
rome’s fashion highlights: davydenko and serena
Although many players were rockin’ the pink and purple this week (including Patty Schnyder and Svetlana Kuznetsova), it was Serena Williams who ran away with it, combining both colors in her Nike outfit. She even mixed it up with different accessories: a cap one day, and different colored headbands for the other two matches: (What […]
a weak week for trophies
So we’re a third done with the year and still no tourney has come close to matching what Masters Series Paris handed out to Davydenko last year. Who’s going to step up to the plate? ATP: World No. 1 Roger Federer had to fight tooth and nail to overcome Clay No. 1 Rafael Nadal this […]