The Buzz – August Edition

The Taj Mahal’s Been Painted Blue, the Pyramids Are Square, the Leaning Tower is Straight and Wimbledon Has a Roof

I’LL TWITTER,YOU GET YOUR PHD: Serena said Venus “is really artsy and into smart things like…learning languages and getting degrees. I’m into Twitter.”
THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST: Despite beating Elena Dementieva, Serena said, “My forehand didn’t show up. I think she went to Hawaii.”

Roger Federer and the March of History

Roger regains the No.1 ranking and claims the game’s greatest mark — 15 Grand Slam titles

LONDON JULY 6: It’s midnight and I sit in the empty Wimbledon arena. A silence descends. Long ago roars have fled — absent and gone. A classic battle behind them — 15,000 fans, stunned and drained — have abandoned this hallowed cauldron. In solitude, my thoughts should be of but a single soul, a Texas [...]

Victorious Serena Now Chasing the Greats

Serena escaped Dementieva and went on to win her 3rd Slam in the past year.

WIMBLEDON — The willful Serena Williams is chasing a pantheon of greats and while she’s still more than a few strides away from tackling them, she’s beginning to bite small chunks out of their heels.

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Federer Breaks Sampras Record in Classic Win over Roddick

WIMBLEDON — The now greatest player ever was bruised, but he wasn’t beaten yet.
After sustaining a barrage of aces, groundstroke winners and crisp volleys, Roger Federer faced two break points at 8-8 in the fifth set against American Andy Roddick, who was surely playing the Grand Slam match of his life in the Wimbledon final.  [...]

The Tennis World Responds to History

Roger, The McEnroes, Stefanki, Gimelstob Talks to Inside Tennis on Roger’s History and Roddick’s Renewal

Safina Won Rome and Madrid So She Should Be No.1 and Other Serena Zingers

WIMBLEDON,  SATURDAY, JULY 4 -  Go figure. Serena Williams has won three of the last four Slams. Can you spell dominance? Yet guess what, on the all-knowing WTA Tour computer she is still No. 2, while Dinara  Safina who has been stinking up the gym at crunch time in one Slam after another is  camping [...]

A WHOLE NEW WORLD: Exclusive Larry Stefanki Interview

Moses roamed around in the desert for 40 years. But that was nothing. The United Kingdom – the motherland of tennis – hasn’t had a Wimbledon champion in 73 long arid seasons. But with the Flying Scott, Andy Murray, the land of proper manners and devastating defeats, had a hope. And this guy was no [...]

Fearless Federer Romps Over Haas; Roddick Breaks UK’s Heart

FRIDAY, JULY 3 – Roger Federer had never lost a Wimbledon semifinal and today was no exception. Even though Tommy Haas served well and played a solid, aggressive match, he was no match for the superb and steamrolling Swiss.

Serena Downs Resurgent Dementieva in Classic Marathon

It was supposed to be just a formality, a gateway to that happening we now have come to expect: an all-Williams final. After all, Wimbledon IS Williams. Williams IS Wimbledon. We were destined on Saturday the Fourth of July to see the fourth Williams vs. Williams Wimbledon final and the eighth all-Williams Slam final.

Of Gorillas, Elephants and Other Beasts

AND NOW A WORD FROM COACH STEFANKI: After Andy Roddick’s clutch five-set win over Lleyton Hewitt, his coach, Larry Stefanki (who has worked with John McEnroe, Tim Henman, Marcelo Rios and Fernando Gonzalez, among others), said that Andy was now a man – that he showed great maturity at crunch time.  A quietly elated Stefanki, [...]