You may expect most tennis stars to stay at places like The Waldorf, Le Parker Meridien, or The Carlyle while they make their stay in New York. Maybe some even rent out a penthouse on the Park! When you’re a tennis player with a full international schedule, you only get a couple weeks a year Read More
Melanie Oudin, a 17-year-old five-foot-six-inch player who rarely cracks 100 m.p.h. on her first serve, looked awfully small standing at the baseline in the biggest tennis stadium in the world this afternoon.
Her opponent was Elena Dementieva, a tall and lanky Russian who is the fourth-ranked player in the world, who hits some of the Read More
The third highest ranking American woman at the U.S. Open right now is a 17-year-old Georgian, Melanie Oudin. Today, Oudin will take Arthur Ashe for the first time in her very young career, and she’s got quite the task: She has to play the no. 4 woman in the world, Elena Dementieva.
We asked Nick Read More
What would Nick Bollettieri do if the slumping Ana Ivanovic came to him tomorrow and asked for help?
“If she came to me I would say tell me every single thing that’s on your mind,” he said. “Everything! Do you still like the game? Have you lost your confidence? Are you afraid? Did you have Read More
Over the next two weeks, we’re going to be spending time with coaching legend Nick Bollettieri. Today, we asked him about Maria Sharapova, who he’s worked with in the past.
Sharapova, the 2006 U.S. Open champion, has been plauged by a shoulder injury that has been affecting her for over two years now. She missed Read More
