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There are billions of moves in chess. However, a couple of strategies tend to dominate high level competition. There is the positional game, playing with whatever pieces exist and trying to find the best move therein, and the tactical game, which is intended to set up attacks to place the opponent in jeopardy.
Kyrgios-Fognini is like 8:45 P.M. on July 4th in America - as darkness descends, the fireworks are inevitable. I caught the second set of this match.
The Phoenix dactylifera, commonly known as the date palm, is a flowering plant species cultivated for its fruit. About the size of a shot glass, (maybe thumb) a the date is a sweet, mushy oval with a slightly harder edible exterior and an inner seed.
It's another beautiful day in Indian Wells. The skies are blue, the mountains are surreal - they look like a HOLLYWOOD backdrop. The air smells of flowers from the Indian Wells Tennis Gardens.
As of this evening, half of the players, who came to play the BNP Paribas in Indian Wells, are finished competing on the court. Some suffered heartbreaking third-setters where a 14-12 tiebreaker decided the win, while others got their tails kicked in.
In the tennis pantheon, we see names like Serena and Federer, Djokovic and Venus, Rafa and Graf. Immortalized by their victories, they’ve become larger-than-life legends who transcend the game and make fans swoon across the globe.
The Indian Wells women’s draw was conducted today and the first week presents several stiff tests for major champions, including a potential third-round clash between Venus Williams and sisters Serena Williams.
Oracle founder, Larry Ellison’s Tennis Garden continues to grow more spectacular every year. Now replete with nine stadiums, accessible practice courts, and near-Michelin level cuisine, this place competes with the world’s major events.
The world has come together in Korea for the OLYMPICS. Olympics are every four years. Tennis is 50 weeks. Our players are always together. Tennis is the best example the world has at all of us getting along.
Althea Gibson, the first African-American ever to win a Grand Slam title, provided a perfect example of America’s schizophrenia over its attitude to people of color in the 1950’s and 1960’s.
When I lived in Richmond, Virginia I found it difficult driving past Arthur Ashe’s statue without getting a lump in my throat. Compared with the huge, preposterously imposing statues of Confederate Generals that adorn long stretches of Monument Avenue, Arthur’s statue is relatively small but no less emotive.
Please enjoy a silly story By Craig Cignarelli who basically wants to make us smile. But I'm pretty certain he thinks he has used every superlative to expound on Roger Federer already.
Earlier this week, three-hundred coaches descended upon Melbourne Park’s Hisense arena for a six-day educational forum entitled: The Grand Slam Coaches Conference.
If you’re looking for Oz, The Tanderrum Bridge is far a better path than the yellow brick road. One of this year’s tournament’s technological innovations is the Umpire chair, which now requires a seatbelt and lifts the umpire ten feet into the air at the push of a button.
Lauren Davis and Simona Halep have the kind of hearts Andrea Bocelli sings about. When the Rod Laver Arena crowd goes off, it sounds like a Bose Speaker.
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