Blue-collar dress-up: We all know Serena Williams means business, but we didn’t expect her to shed all the frills while vying for the 2010 Wimbledon Ladies’ titles (singles and doubles). The tournament’s top seed, in her simple white Nike dress (with red piping), was not her usual, fashion-forward self. She looked more like an orderly. […]
wta headshots: part 1
If you’ve ever paid a visit to the WTA Tour’s web site, you were sure to notice the vast array of headshots used in player profiles. Unlike the theatre world, the business world or even the APT’s site – where there’s a standard for what a headshot might look like – the WTA seems to […]
set two: wimbledon on the d list
Yesterday my alarm clock rang at an ugly hour: 4:30 A.M.! I was off to day three of The Championships after failing to get tickets on Tuesday. This time I was determined to get my show-court on. I caught the 5:11 bus and made it to the ground by 5:35, only to be the 1,490th […]
Kohlschreiber takes out Federer in staggering 3rd round upset…
After showing Novak Djokovic an early exit at Roland Garros, Germany’s Philipp Kohlschreiber has… Ok: let’s not get ahead of ourselves. As deep as the men’s game is these days, Rafa Nadal’s exceedingly unfortunate withdrawal from Wimbledon ’09 has shined a blindingly bright light on the fact that, after a series of sea changes this […]
wimbledon, on the d list
TSF note: Tennis Chatter’s Nick McCarvel is in London this week, doing his time as a Wimbledon fan by queueing up for tickets. He’s graciously offered report back through TSF even though he’s also writing for the New York Times’ Straight Sets blog (Mazel tov!). Read on… The tennis was in full force yesterday at […]