Interesting post by Tennis Channel founder Steve Bellamy on Facebook noting how Wake Forest's NCAA team title was produced without the contribution of one single American player - and all of the Wake Forest competitors have earned ATP points... Check out Bellamy's post... Not inserting my own opinion, but today Wake Forest won the NCAA Team Tennis Championships with 6 singles players from: Continue to read full article...

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  By Scoop Malinowski One of the most ballyhooed American juniors in years has embarked on her professional tennis career. Recently turned 14, Cori Gauff, stunned the tennis world at last year's junior girls US Open as a 13 year old, where she beat the fifth best under 18 junior in the world Carson Branstine in straight sets and reached all the way to the final. Continue to read full article...

Cori Gauff

By Scoop Malinowski Ok after several months of hammering out details and contentious negotiations myself and Dan have worked out a 325 page contract to make Tennis Prose Great Again, or MTPGA. We will no longer let politics and religion or other hot trigger issues divert the main topic of discussing and analyzing and enjoying the greatest sport on earth. Continue to read full article...

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In the spring of 2000 Marat Safin was so frustrated he thought about quitting tennis - at the ripe old age of 20. But something happened, something clicked and Safin turned it all around. By the end of the summer he was the six seed at US Open and after the fortnight he was the US Open champion, fresh off a straight set destruction of Pete Sampras. Continue to read full article...

Fight · Never give up · Safin · US Open

By Scoop Malinowski Maria Sharapova has declared her revival this week in Rome, crunching Ashleigh Barty in three sets but more impressively she administered a beatdown to Rafa Nadal on the practice court. Sharapova shared an Instagram video of her playing one, presumably winner take all point, against the "King of Clay" and after a long, brutal, fiercely contested rally, Sharapova began to show her superiority by manipulating the 31-year-old around the court. Continue to read full article...

Maria Sharapova · Rafa Nadal · Sugarpova

With how important power and size are considered in professional tennis today, in the age of explosive equipment and finely-tuned, super-fit athletes, you would think there were maybe two or three ATP players ranked in the top fifty that stand over six foot tall. Continue to read full article...

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Down a set and break to Thiem today, Rafa just did not have the same full throttle, full fury intensity at the end. It looked like Rafa was coasting to the finish, thinking, Why kill myself to beat Thiem today, I have to save my best for Roland Garros. Continue to read full article...

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Robin Haase once lost seventeen tiebreakers in a row in 2013. Ivo Karlovic lost ten third set deathbreakers in a row two years ago. Continue to read full article...

Terrible slumps

I wrote about a tennis player named Brian Healy last year, when he won his first USTA Eastern tournament match after going four and a half years of trying. Continue to read full article...

Never give up

MIAMI OPEN CHAMPS ISNER, STEPHENS, BRYAN BROS., ALONG WITH FORMER CHAMP NISHIKORI, AND TOP TENS ANDERSON AND GOFFIN JOIN WOZNIACKI IN EARLY CITI OPEN® PLAYER FIELD 50th edition of Washington Tournament to be held July 28-August 5; 48-hour flash sale for single session tickets open now until Sunday, April 8 at 12 a.m. WASHINGTON (April 6, 2018) — Americans who dominated the Miami Open last week, as well as past champions and top ten stars have committed early to compete in this summer’s Citi Open® Tennis Tournament, July 28-August 5, 2018. The 50th edition of Washington’s summer tennis tradition will feature 2018 Miami Open champions John Isner (World No. 9 and three-time tournament finalist), Sloane Stephens (World No. 9 and 2015 Citi Open champion), and Mike and Bob Bryan (World No. 7 and four-time tournament champions). They will be joined by 2015 Citi Open champion Kei Nishikori, as well as World No. 8 and 2017 Citi Open finalist Kevin Anderson and World No. 10 David Goffin. Continue to read full article...

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