Tag: Controversy

The Sugarpova campaign is incredibly creative and successful... but it has some side effect: it promotes unhealthy food! This is what some critics complain about. The Campaign As per Sugarpova's website "Sugarpova is a premium candy line that reflects the fun, fashionable, sweet side of international tennis sensation...

Gael Monfils has an argument with the umpire regarding a warning for time abuse on his match against Philipp Kohlschreiber, in Doha

Strange relationships inside the Argentine Davis Cup team. Del Potro and Argentina Juan Martin has always been keen on playing for his country. This summer he won a very emotional bronze medal at the Olympic Games against Djokovic. In September he played the Davis Cup...

The 2008 Beijing gold medal seems to be trillions of miles away as something got a bit broken inside the Swiss team. What happened before The first hint came when Roger was "misunderstood" when it was reported that he blamed Wawrinka for their terrible lost against...

Is Caroline racist? No she is not! She has just performed a very unfortunate imitation of Serena and some people has (wrongly) considered it an act of racism. What happened? You know... during exhibition tennis players are expected not to win, but to act as jokingly...

Is is enough? Yes? No? There are different feelings in tennis about the anti doping issue.  Yannick Noah had already aired his own concerns about doping in tennis, then it was Blake to say that doping may be a problem also in tennis. After that we...

Time to change for Bernard... 2012 has been not a good year to be harshly criticized by McEnroe (for tanking), by Hewitt  and now from Newcombe. Tomic out of the real world According to the Australian legend, John Newcombe, “Bernie’s out in the real world now and I don’t...

Roger is a master at playing tennis and a fine strategist when it comes to plan a season. A correct scheduling is essential for him especially now that he is not a teenager any more. The Main Point As Roger is 31, he played for 12...

How can you develop the tennis game if low ranked players (especially youngsters) struggle to finance their game? Roger is going to fight for it! The Problem As we know there is a big difference between tennis and golf. The top 100 golf players earn good money,...

It's becoming a never ending story. After Lance Armstrong's case (and Noha's rant), there are more and more talks about anti doping in tennis. From Federer Now even the Swiss Maestro has his comments about it "I feel I'm being less tested now than six, seven, eight...