Tag: Controversy

Roger Federer is one of the most traditional players around and he loves playing “classic tennis”. At times the Maestro is too harsh against some innovations to even criticize the use of the eye-hawk for challenging calls (one of the best innovations in tennis history). It...

The shot-clock is one of the innovative rules introduced by the IPTL  and probably the “most reasonable one”. There has been a long debate about Nadal and Djokovic taking far too much time between points. This is a hot issue for 2 reasons: first it...

Life at the top can be tough, but life to get to the top can be even tougher. Andrada Surdeanu is chasing the dream to become a tennis pro and it’s her father to help her to get there. Unfortunately the “father-coach” formula often put an...

One of the biggest problems at the Australian Open his combating the extreme heat. Sometimes we have rather extreme situations that can jeopardize the health of players and fans. Last year  was particularly harsh with many players criticizing how the situation was handled. From the organization Craig...

Maria Sharapova and Ana Ivanovic are playing the controversial International Premier Tennis League (IPTL) to have mixed feeling about the “shot clock concept”. For long time the tennis community has been talking about the opportunity of introducing a shot clock in tennis (and we agree...

Nick Kyrgios is the man of the year in Tennis Australia. The teenager is the new kid on the block, he has tennis, personality etc etc, but probably there is too much hype on him. Few days ago Lleyton Hewitt has already expressed his concerns...

“Kyrgios here and Kyrgios there...” this is what is happening in tennis Australia and Hewitt disagrees with that. Nick Kyrgios had a great 2014 to finish the year as world no.52 after winning 3 challengers and reaching the quarters in Wimbledon. After that Nick has...

Rafael Nadal is getting older and wiser and he is looking at his current situation with a broader perspective. The Spanish Legend has been sidelined for a big chunk of the season by various injuries and he will try to stage another comeback in 2015,...

It’s a rather turbulent time for Stan Wawrinka. The Swiss no.2 had a rather controversial “episode” with Federer after losing the semifinals in London (See article on “Mirkagate”) and now he had another tough encounter with the entire French Team ! According to reports the entire...

That was a Waterloo! The French Team looked to be set to make a meal of Switzerland at the beginning of the week when Federer looked like a cripple; then things changed… dramatically. Eventually Roger’s problem “gave” just a point to the French team that surprisingly...