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• The 2007 Australian Open

  Created: Sunday, 07 January 2007 17:38 Author: Craig Packer

  Get Ready for a Few Surprises Before anyone gets too excited, no, I’m not predicting that Roger Federer will lose. But I do believe that the 2007 trip to Melbourne Park will be more interesting than many might expect. Let’s start with the men. In s...

• Lindsay Davenport

  Created: Thursday, 14 December 2006 15:37 Author: Craig Packer

  The tennis world has suffered an enormous loss. Fifteen-year pro and former #1 Lindsay Davenport—proud owner of three major titles, 51 WTA singles titles, 36 WTA doubles titles, and an Olympic Gold Medal—called it quits today. Not because of an injur...

• Shanghai Surprise?

  Created: Saturday, 11 November 2006 17:35 Author: Craig Packer

  Let’s face it. The 2006 Tennis Masters Cup is all but a foregone conclusion. Federer is riding a 24-match winning streak and has won four titles in a row. But it doesn’t hurt to embark upon the desperate search for someone—anyone—who can mount a ...

• Madrid Forecast - Mostly Cloudy

  Created: Thursday, 09 November 2006 17:32 Author: Craig Packer

  There’s a lot to discuss where the Sony Ericson Championships are concerned, so let’s get right to it. The bad news is that Justine Henin-Hardenne comes in with no matches, no preparation, and an abundance of questions surrounding her health. The go...

• Because She's Worth It

  Created: Friday, 03 November 2006 17:31 Author: Craig Packer

  Maria Sharapova. Those two words alone seem to inspire feelings of either anger or awe in the minds of diehard tennis fans. Everyone seems to fall into one of two very narrowly defined categories where she is concerned. You love her, or you hate her. Tho...

• Nowhereinparticular: ...

  Created: Tuesday, 19 September 2006 11:32 Author: Craig Packer

  ... Bananagate, the Value of Good PR, and Why No One’s Crying for Argentina Okay, folks. We’re going to cover a lot of ground this week. Let’s start with Maria Sharapova. Fresh off winning her first U.S. Open and her second Grand Slam title, Shar...

• Williams/Williams vs. Giscafre/Promotion Sports, Inc.

  Created: Sunday, 30 July 2006 11:26 Author: Craig Packer

  Raquel Giscafre, a former professional tennis player and co-owner of Promotion Sports, Inc., says that, if the Williams sisters enter next year’s Acura Classic in San Diego, their names will not be added to the entry list. Why? Because, according to G...

• The 2006 U.S. Open Field...

  Created: Thursday, 27 July 2006 11:31 Author: Craig Packer

  ... It’s as Wide Open as a Stripper’s Blouse With the absence of defending champion Kim Clijsters and a field of talent that collectively boasts double-digit Grand Slam titles, to say that the women’s crown in Flushing Meadows is up for grabs is as...

• Separating the Wheat from the Chaff

  Created: Thursday, 20 July 2006 11:28 Author: Craig Packer

  A Look at the U.S. Open Men's Field The 2006 U.S. Open is anything but a done deal. Each day of this year’s U.S. Open Series has been full of surprises that conspire to complicate what only a few weeks ago seemed like an inevitable result—another G...

• Getting to Know You: Severine Bremond

  Created: Tuesday, 04 July 2006 11:23 Author: Craig Packer

  I was sitting in my office, minding my own business and watching the Federer/Berdych match, when I got an e-mail from a TAT moderator asking me if I’d consider writing a column about Severine Bremond. I tried to muster a polite reply, but the best I co...

• Henin-Hardenne: A Case Study in Hope, Hatred and History

  Created: Sunday, 25 June 2006 11:20 Author: Craig Packer

  When Justine Henin-Hardenne takes to the Wimbledon lawns for the next two weeks, she’ll be bearing the burden of impending history—the opportunity to be the first woman since Steffi Graf to hold a career singles Golden Slam. The owner of five Grand S...

• Guillermo, Give the Guy His Due

  Created: Thursday, 01 June 2006 11:18 Author: Craig Packer

  According to Reuters News Service, Guillermo Vilas doesn’t think Rafael Nadal’s first round victory over Robin Soderling—which broke Vilas’ 29-year-old, 53-match, clay court winning record—is anything to get excited about. How does he justify t...

• The Chinese Aren't Coming At All

  Created: Saturday, 20 May 2006 18:15 Author: Craig Packer

  When the Chinese duo of Tian Tian Sun and Ting Li won the 2004 Olympic Women’s Doubles Gold Medal in Athens, tennisheads across the globe quickly proclaimed that the Chinese Federation was masterminding the next invasion in women’s tennis. And when an...

• Shaking the "Milkshake For Brains" Label

  Created: Friday, 05 May 2006 18:11 Author: Craig Packer

  In Melbourne Park, we saw Amelie Mauresmo win her first Grand Slam. And since then, we’ve seen Nadia Petrova rack up her fourth WTA tour title in the past six months. Which makes me wonder—what will it take for players like Mauresmo and Petrova to fi...

• Instant Replay: Bag the Braindead Policy

  Created: Wednesday, 22 March 2006 17:04 Author: Craig Packer

  During Monday's match between Andy Roddick and Fernando Verdasco, Mary Carillo unleashed the latest in her long line of on-air rants. The object of her venom-the new challenge system being used for the first time at the NASDAQ-100 in Miami. The new syst...