serena: queen of the garden?
Winter gardening: Believe it or not, Serena Williams has never played at Madison Square Garden. In fact, of the four players competing in this Monday’s Billie Jean King Cup in New York, only Venus has...
View Articlelegends go ballin’
(Legends Dick Savitt, Stan Smith, Monica Seles, Martina Navratilova, Buch Buchholz, Pam Shriver and Tony Trabert) Last Friday night, while rain was wreaking havoc on the U.S. Open‘s schedule and a...
View Articleshort balls: the in-between edition
Ed note: We were planning on getting a podcast up for djy’all’s enjoyment this week, but real life got in the way. Check out TSF early next week for a Roland Garros wrap-up and a look-ahead to The...
View Articleao flashback: monica, 1992
Monica Seles clad in a tangerine Fila top (complete with shoulder art – and we don’t mean tats!) during the 1992 final of the Australian Open, which she won against BFF Mary Joe Fernandez 6-2, 6-3. |...
View Articlestrokin': when tennis met music
By Jonathan Scott It may not be tabloid fodder like every Taylor Swift dalliance, and it’s not nearly as insufferable as Brangelina, but the marriage between music and tennis is itself a storied love...
View Articlesummer monday? spend it with monica and jimbo
Courier serving things up at the Rock in 2009. (Getty photo) NYC greenery: Plenty of New Yorkers (and Americans, we presume) have “summer Fridays.” You know the idea: it’s freakin’ nice outside so...
View Articletsf interview: monica seles talks twitter, figure skating and her love of...
I cannot tell you how many thousands of hours I have spent hitting a tennis ball against a wall. Recently, I moved to Harlem in Manhattan and have discovered that there are hand ball walls just two...
View Articletsf interview: jim courier on davis cup, escaping nyc and his first year of...
That’s no sound stage. Behind that HSBC classic? A grass tennis court — in Manhattan. (TSF photos) HSBC‘s “Wimbledon 2011 at Rockefeller Plaza” bestowed Manhattan with its only grass tennis court —...
View Articlespotted in the city: monica's bag and djoko on the wall
Summer in the city: Walking down 9th Avenue one day in Hell’s Kitchen, I noticed this construction site plastered in newspaper articles. Two of them caught my eye: pieces on Novak Djokovic. A hearty...
View Articlefila’s 100 years on display at the hall of fame museum
Fine time for Fila: Monica, Boris, Kim and others are all hanging out at the International Tennis Hall of Fame and Museum — well, at least their clothes are. As part of the celebration of Fila turning...
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