THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES – By American Guardian Of The Game

Patrick McEnroe, you are responsible for directing the quite extensive resources of the USTA into junior player development.   In the absence of producing successful players, rather than taking responsibility, you have chosen to throw the junior tennis players and their coaches under the bus.  It is time to call you to task.

“For the first time since 1912, when no American men entered the tournament, not one advanced past the second round.” [READ MORE].

Day3 of the US Open

This is Day 3 for me but Day 1 for the US Open qualifying event. On my arrival this morning it was a different energy already. Many players and their teams were going through their last min preparations in getting ready for the big day of qualifying for the Last Slam of the year.

Also the NYPD (New York Police Department was making its mark on the event with road blocks and security measures being taken. [READ MORE].

Gladys Heldman by Richard Evans

King Arthur had his round table. Gladys Heldman had her round bed. A lot happened on that bed but not much of it had to do with the ever-supportive Julius who was banished to a cot in his dressing room while his dynamic wife was busy publishing and editing World Tennis magazine and creating the WTA tour.

It was the early 1970’s and the Heldmans had just left their penthouse apartment in New York overlooking Gracie Mansion and moved to Timberwilde, a leafy lane in a residential district of Houston, Texas. The one story property was spread over more than an acre and, of course, had a tennis court and swimming pool. But the bed was the hub.

It was there that Gladys spent hours with the make-ups of the next edition of the magazine spread  before her. She had a perfectly good office downtown with a small, dedicated staff but a telephone, held in the crook of her shoulder, was all she did needed to make her decisions known. [READ MORE].

TENNIS CHANNEL TO OFFER 75 HOURS OF LIVE OR FIRST-RUN US OPEN MATCHES, CLOSE TO 240 HOURS OF COVERAGE OVERALL

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 20, 2013 -Beginning Monday, Aug. 26, Tennis Channel will televise 75 live or first-run match hours of the 2013 US Open, in addition to 90 original hours of nightly show US Open Tonight and morning program Breakfast at the Open. In its fifth year of covering the world’s largest annually attended paid sporting event, the network’s round-the-clock schedule will dedicate close to 240 hours to the two-week tournament. This includes live coverage from first ball through Thursday of the second week, eight-hour match windows the first week, prime-time windows the first weekend, and encore coverage of the men’s and women’s singles and doubles semifinals and finals.

While the US Open is in session from August 26 through September 9, Tennis Channel will bring the tournament to viewers all but a few hours per 24-hour day. The network’s typical day of coverage starts with half-hour introductory show Live at the US Open each morning at 10:30 a.m. ET. [READ MORE].