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Sports Illustrated June 20, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
Breaking down the Wimbledon draw Our writer peers into his crystal ball to reveal the fate of the top 16 women's seeds for Wimbledon. Scroll down to see the first-round matches you shouldn't miss, some darkhorse candidates to advance to Week 2, and his championship predictions...  |
Sports Illustrated August 25, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
Breaking down the U.S. Open Womens' draw SI staff writer Jon Wertheim peers into his crystal ball to reveal the fate of all 32 seeds for the U.S. Open. See the first-round matches you shouldn't miss, some darkhorse candidates to advance to Week 2, and his championship predictions.  |
Sports Illustrated June 22, 2000 |
Previewing Wimbledon's women Sports Illustrated staff writer Jon Wertheim breaks down the women's draw at this year's Wimbledon, predicting how the seeds will fare and looking at some dark horses and intriguing opening matchups.  |
Sports Illustrated May 28, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
Previewing the women Break down of the women's draw at this year's French Open, predicting how the seeds will fare and looking at some darkhorses and intriguing opening matchups...  |
Sports Illustrated June 20, 2002 Jon Wertheim |
Breaking down the Wimbledon draw The author peers into his crystal ball to reveal the fate of the top 16 men's and women's seeds for Wimbledon  |
Sports Illustrated August 23, 2002 Jon Wertheim |
Breaking down the U.S. Open draw The author predicts the fate of the top 16 men's and women's seeds for the U.S. Open. See the first-round matches you shouldn't miss, some darkhorse candidates to advance to Week 2, and his championship predictions.  |
Sports Illustrated January 8, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
Breaking out all over Women (and men) on the verge of a breakout year ought to include: Juan Carlos Ferrero, Kim Clijsters, Nathalie Dechy, Justine Henin, Roger Federer...  |
Sports Illustrated May 27, 2002 Jon Wertheim |
Breaking down the French Open draw The author peers into his crystal ball to reveal the fate of the top 16 men's and women's seeds for the French Open...  |
Sports Illustrated September 11, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
The Hot List Hot: Venus Williams, Marat Safin, Lleyton Hewitt, Elena Dementieva... Not: Serena Williams, Mary Pierce, Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Magnus Norman...  |
Sports Illustrated January 28, 2002 Jon Wertheim |
Can Hingis overcome latest stumble? Martina Hingis hasn't been tennis' top player for three years. She plays wonderfully intuitive, clever tennis and is one of the all-time great thinkers and strategists. But her lack of power -- her dearth of ammunition -- has been fatal to her success...  |
Sports Illustrated June 5, 2001 S.L. Price |
Venus Falling As the star-starved French Open showed, the women's game is suddenly in a swoon...  |
Sports Illustrated November 5, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
WTA soap opera continues Even by women's tennis' impossibly high standards for absurdity, it was a bizarre week on the WTA Tour...  |
Sports Central July 27, 2010 Brad Oremland |
Why Serena Williams is Not the Best Ever It would be ludicrous to pretend that Serena Williams is not a great player, among the greatest ever. It is equally absurd, though, to pretend that she has surpassed the likes of Graf and Navratilova to lay claim to the title of best ever.  |
Sports Illustrated February 12, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
Johnny Mac to the rescue? I believe John McEnroe should have been selected to play Davis Cup to generate some interest from viewers like me. It would have been great. Big names are what the event needs, right?  |
Sports Illustrated August 7, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
The Hot List: Aug. 7 Hot: Marat Safin, Venus Williams, Amy Frazier, Harel Levy... Not: Andre Agassi, Lindsay Davenport, Martina Hingis, Jan-Michael Gambill, Jelena Dokic...  |
Sports Illustrated March 20, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
The Hot List Alex Corretja... Lindsay Davenport... Jared Palmer... Elena Dementieva... Martina Navratilova... Andre Agassi... Serena Williams... Martina Hingis... Pete Sampras... Pat Cash...  |
Sports Illustrated July 10, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
The Hot List: July 10 Hot: Pete Sampras, Venus Williams, Pat Rafter... Not: Mark Philippoussis, Richard Williams, Natasha Zvereva  |
Sports Illustrated January 22, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
No rest for the best While the women's game overall has improved immensely, I'm consistently frustrated by the fact that the top players (with the exception of the amazing yet annoying Wiliams sisters) have failed to round out their games...  |
Sports Illustrated January 30, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
Wrapping up Australia All credit to Jennifer Capriati for authoring such a great story -- and easing the guilt of so many. Lost amid the Cinderella hype: Her tennis was unparalleled...  |
Sports Illustrated July 16, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
The good and bad of Ivanisevic I was happy to see Goran Ivanisevic finally win Wimbledon until I saw his post-match news conference, during which he referred to a linesman as a "faggot." Why doesn't the press call him on his bigotry?  |
Sports Illustrated September 11, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
Safin has a good shot at No. 1 Rating the courts of the Slam venues... Prognosticating on the future rivalries in tennis...  |
Sports Illustrated August 20, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
Solving the rankings riddle As a USTA poster boy, rest assured Andy Roddick will be playing every match on a show court. He's popping serves, bludgeoning his groundies and moving well. More impressive, he's been showing poise that belies his age...  |
Sports Illustrated October 29, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
Reasonable doubt Don't blame U.S. for withdrawing from Fed Cup...  |
Sports Illustrated August 29, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
Tapping her potential Best is yet to come for Serena Williams...  |
Sports Central December 28, 2005 Mert Ertunga |
Best and Worst of WTA Tour in 2005 One final look at the 2005 season, especially considering the ATP version published on Sports Central last month turned out to draw so much reader feedback.  |
Sports Illustrated April 22, 2002 Jon Wertheim |
Will Agassi play Davis Cup? Pat McEnroe is going to try his best to make sure this fantasy is realized. Agassi swore off Davis Cup like a bad habit after the 2000 fiasco...  |
Sports Illustrated August 14, 2002 Jon Wertheim |
She's got legs If the Williams sisters are the unmistakable stars of the 2002 production of The WTA Tour, Daniela Hantuchova might get the nod for best supporting actress.  |
Sports Illustrated June 6, 2000 L. Jon Wertheim |
Inside Tennis Week 1 of the French Open was marked by one injury after another  |
Sports Illustrated May 31, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
Chat Reel Might be time for Sampras to stop playing French...  |
Sports Illustrated July 24, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
Stuck in a circle No easy solution to U.S. Davis Cup problems  |
Sports Central June 11, 2013 Brad Oremland |
Who is the Best Female Tennis Player of All-Time? In my mind, there are three players who merit serious consideration as the Greatest Of All Time: Serena Williams, Martina Navratilova, and Steffi Graf.  |
Sports Illustrated August 19, 2002 Jon Wertheim |
Near the top Jelena Dokic's path to te.nnis stardom is chock full of obstacles  |
Sports Illustrated October 23, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
How to beat the Williamses Why aren't other players following up on Lindsay Davenport's style of beating the Williams sisters? I thought that her technique revealed a weakness in their games... Plus, many other tennis questions...  |
Sports Illustrated May 29, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
Venus falling On second thought, Capriati will win the French...  |
Sports Illustrated April 3, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
Hitting some turbulence Tennis Q&A: Why do you think players do so well one tournament and then do terribly in the next?... the "next Steffi"... Magnus Norman... USTA "budget shortfall"... Martina Navratilova considering competing in doubles... etc.  |
Sports Illustrated July 10, 2001 Rick Reilly |
Disadvantage, Women The women are more popular, make more headlines and play more entertaining tennis than the men, yet the women made $790,919 less over the Wimbledon fortnight than the men and $428,637 less at the French...  |
Sports Illustrated January 29, 2002 Jon Wertheim |
ATP needs new marketing strategy The tour tries desperately to cultivate "stars" and "personalities," yet the first major was won by a Swedish veteran who repeatedly described himself as bland and who reacted to the biggest win of his life by grinning and approaching the net to shake his opponent's hand...  |
Sports Central September 1, 2008 Mert Ertunga |
Ladies Battle For No. 1 in NY As the first week of the U.S. Open is nearing its end, I am enjoying one of my favorite weekends of the year  |
Sports Illustrated September 13, 2001 S.L. Price |
American Revolution The battle for supremacy in the women's game seemed over after the Williams sisters dominated the U.S. Open as never before...  |
Sports Illustrated December 18, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
The 2000 Baggie Awards It's that time of year again: trees, ornaments, good will, Dick Clark and, of course, the Gold Flake Open. Time to reflect on another enthralling, stranger-than-fiction year in professional tennis with the third annual Baggie Awards...  |
Sports Central January 26, 2009 Tom Kosinski |
Has Change Come to Tennis in 2009? In 2009, change has come. In America, maybe. In tennis, maybe not. But maybe that's a good thing.  |
Sports Illustrated July 6, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
Sisterly slugfest signals tennis' future In a match that will make the front page of all the newspapers, Venus Williams beat her little sister, Serena, 6-2, 7-6 Thursday to reach her first Wimbledon final. One had the feeling this was one of those epochal matches that will be remembered for years.  |
Sports Illustrated September 3, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
Hingis' comments taken out of context What does it say about our society that Martina Hingis is vilified for stupid comments about the Williams sisters' endorsements, but Goran Ivanisevic, who fires off derogatory terms for homosexuals during press conferences, is as popular as ever?  |
Sports Illustrated June 25, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
It's all about grass It is completely counterintuitive that tennis' "magical fortnight," as some put it, its most esteemed event, is played on the most anomalous and rare surface. But that's the way it goes: Wimbledon is the Rose Bowl of tennis...  |
Sports Illustrated August 14, 2002 |
She's baaack Hingis returns without missing a beat  |
Sports Illustrated May 22, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
From movies to poems Tennis Q&A: Tennis related movies... Is Nathalie Tauziat's "controversial" book going to be available in English in the U.S.?... Juan Carlos Ferrero... who are the shortest successful players on both tours?... etc.  |
Sports Illustrated February 25, 2002 Jon Wertheim |
Free advice for tennis' top stars I often wish that I could talk to certain players and make little suggestions. Here's a list of advice I'd give...  |
Sports Central February 24, 2006 Tom Kosinski |
Hingis is Back, But is She Really? Martina Hingis may lack "the fire" to be number one in the WTA.  |
Sports Illustrated April 3, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
The Hot List Who's hot and who's not in the tennis world: Pete Sampras... Martina Hingis... Serena Williams... Venus Williams... Anna Kournikova... etc.  |
Sports Illustrated June 12, 2000 |
The Hot List: June 12 Hot: Gustavo Kuerten, Mary Pierce; Not: Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario, Yevgeny Kafelnikov, etc.  |