Luxilon strings are well known as some of the best, if not the best polyester strings available to tennis players today. Luxilon is the most popular brand of polyester strings on the ATP tour, as 70 percent of the pros on tour use them. Luxilon Big Banger is probably one of the company's most popular
Maximum Tennis: 10 Keys to Unleashing Your On-Court Potential, Nick Saviano (Human Kinetics, 2003) 195 Pages, with 10 Chapters, Index, Bibliography and Black & White Photos Nick Saviano is a former top coach and director with USTA and now head of Saviano High Performance Academy in Sunrise, FL USA. He was a top 50 player
Some would say that Gulbis winning his first ATP title was a tall order. Mostly because his opponent was 6'10", Ivo Karlovic. Hoho! Ernests Gulbis has long been touted as a talented player, someone that might come through like Djokovic or Cilic or Murray. Indeed, Gulbis trained at the same center that Djokovic did. With
Gigi Fernandez and Natasha Zvereva have been elected to the International Tennis Hall of Fame Class of 2010 in recognition of their competitions and contributions, a tribute to the game of doubles. Fernandez and Zvereva won more women’s doubles titles (38) and Grand Slam women’s doubles championships (14) together than any other team since Martina
Today I answer two listener questions. The first has to do with moving out of the way of a shot that’s jamming you up on the court, both returns of serve and volleys up at the net. What stance should you use to do this? Secondly I talk all about playing in windy conditions and
Venus Williams won her second straight title in Acapulco, winning the Abierto Mexicano TELCEL for the second time in a row. But it was not an impressive win. It took Williams three sets to defeat No 60 ranked Polona Hercog of Slovenia. Hercog has never won a WTA singles title, yet took the first set
Juan Carlos Ferrero is a contemporary of Roger Federer. He won his only Slam in 2002 at the French Open, and his best years were from 2000 to 2003, especially at the French where he reached the semis twice, the finals, then won the French. In 2003, Ferrero reached the finals of the US Open
Two months ago, you'd be hard-pressed to say Novak Djokovic was going to defend his title in Dubai. Players like Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Andy Murray, Nikolay Davydenko were expected to play. Indeed, if you were to preview Djokovic's form playing Dubai, you might wonder if he could defend. But luck has a way of
If you're in the United States, you're used to team sports. It's so common in the US so important to Americans, that many in the US view sports with a team sports lens. There are other sports which lack a regular season/postseason structure. For those Americans that don't like sports--and there are plenty, or for
If this were a political thing, perhaps there would be more antagonism between Novak Djokovic, a Serb, and Ivan Ljubicic, a Croatian. But each player has their own drama, independent of which country they play for. In particular, Novak Djokovic, who came from nowhere in 2007 to be a solid number 3, and entered Dubai
