Good morning! This Your Call is being written by Asad Raza. Some of you guys might remember me; I used to post a lot more. (I even wrote some bad poetry, before highpockets came along to put things right.) These days, for reasons of time deficit, I am restricted to

By Jackie, TW Social Director Happy Friday, TWibe! If you haven't already figured it out, this is our brand new timeslot for the Deuce Club. Thanks for the feedback on time preferences; it seems this works well for just about everyone and will hopefully serve as a fun lead-in to

*Phpit2x2ypm by Pete Bodo Howdy, everyone. I'm a little late on this, but as I posted at the previous thread, Typepad ate my entire Rafael Nadal post earlier today. I can't tell you how far your heart sinks the moment you realize the work is gone for good and can't

We’ve wrapped up the Bjorn Borg saga and now it’s on to the 1980s, a decade that was incomparably horrid as it was happening but now seems to have been the genesis of all modern life, from the free market to the graphite racquet to the mullet. I’m taking a

by Pete Bodo In my post below, I speculated on how the Spanish Davis Cup squad may have missed a great opportunity to give Carlos Moya, the indefatigable Godfather of the Spanish Armada, a chance to end his career in a supernova of tennis glory. It now appears that what

By Rosangel Valenti, TW Contributing Editor

By Pete Bodo Greetings, TWibe. As I write this, Rosangel is winging her way to Madrid to check out the penultimate Masters Series event of the year, and will be reporting for you from there - with her customary, high-quality photo gallery to follow. Meanwhile, how about that Gilles Simon!

There’s death. There are taxes. There’s the sun rising in the east. And there’s this question, pondered every three or four months by tennis fans all over the world: What’s the deal with Svetlana Kuznetsova? After the last two weekends, we’re still waiting for a satisfactory answer. Kuznetsova reached the

Hi everyone, Pete here. It was pretty crazy last night; by the time I finished writing up my last post it was around 2 am, and then I drove a few colleagues back to Manhattan, filed the Tennis.com US Open evening report, and drifted off to bed at 4:30 am.

Okay, I'm back. Our vacation was terrific, but this isn't really the time and place to talk about that. Instead, let's talk Olympics. I just filed a post for ESPN taking a look at the men's final. I'm not giving away the store when I say that Fernando Gonzalez is

[In Pete's absence, we are repeating some "Classic" TW posts from earlier times. Some discussions that have been going on in TW recently got me thinking about this post, originally titled 'a Night of Historical Importance', written by Pete during the 2006 US Open, on the night that the USTA

** In Pete's absence this week, we are repeating some TW Classic posts from the past. This one dates from October 2006; its subject matter is Ion Tiriac, which seems apt in light of the current antitrust case taking place in a Delaware federal court: the German Tennis Federation versus

Howdy, everyone. The most apt way to catch the vibe of the Cincinnati Masters is to contemplate the official name of the venue: The Lindner Family Tennis Center. The Lindner family collected that honor because of its massive financial contribution to the tournament, but the "family" in the name also

Somehow, in the back of your mind, you knew it was destined to come down to something like this - 9-7 in the fifth, with the champion Rafael Nadal prone on his back in the tawny dirt, looking like he'd been shot to death, which in a way he had

Typically Concrete Elbow begins one of these tournaments with a timeline post. That’s where we—OK, I—fan out over the grounds, see as many matches as possible, and come back to the press room at the end of the day, sunburned and with hair flying, to write it up in as

Mornin', everyone. It's shaping up as old-timer's day at the French Open, with Marat Safin and Lleyton Hewitt both cruising to relatively painless wins, and how about 35-year old Fabrice Santoro - a straight set winner today over Evgeny Korolev on Court 3!

For the first week of Roland Garros I'll be exchanging emails with TENNIS Magazine senior editor Jon Levey, who's in Paris to cover the tournament. Steve, Looks like my lament about a watered-down Sunday schedule raised the ire of the tennis gods. I’ve been punished with a waterlogged Tuesday. Unfortunately

Kiefer_3 By Rosangel Valenti, TW Contributing Editor Good morning. This is the Tribe's daily post for discussing the live tennis at the ATP Masters Series event in Hamburg, or the WTA tournament taking place in Rome. Yesterday I spent the whole day sitting on the main court at the Rothenbaum

Let the Happy Rivalry begin. After facing each other 14 times, standing alone together on the tennis mountaintop for three years, and fending off—for the moment—an upstart partycrasher, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal deserve to enjoy a little friendly competition along the Mediterranean. But you kind of miss the edge,

I have a few leftover notebook items from Indian Wells to share with you before we turn our attention to Miami, and I'll give them to you in two parts (Part II will be your CC post tomorrow, because it will contain more game and player related elements than this