If you love tennis and live in Southern California, then you have a wonderful opportunity to see some of the worlds greatest tennis players for a one night only event, the LA Tennis Challenge held at Pauley Pavilion on the UCLA campus. Who's going to be at the LA Tennis Challenge The LA Tennis Challenge will be featuring current world #1 Novak Djokovic, former world #1 … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2013
How Has Sponsorship Impacted The Game?
Tennis is considered one of the most civilized sports in the world, but it’s also a very lucrative one. For example, the prize money for winning the singles at: - US Open is £1.2 million ($1,813,320) - Australian Open - £1.7 million ($2,568,870) - Wimbledon - £1.2 million ($1,813,320) - French Open - £1 million ($1,511,100) Big money … [Read more...]
L-Tec – A tale of the strings that made a champion
In October I had the pleasure of having my new Pro Staff Six One 100 fitted fully with L-Tec threads by the one and only TennisThis.com guru, Javier. After only a few rounds with the new strings I could feel what an amazing difference these strings provided to my game. Accuracy and increased spin were something I desired in my heavy spin lefty game and these new strings gave me … [Read more...]
Rafael Nadal – The King of clay is back
Rafael Nadal returned from injury at the Chile Open in a doubles victory alongside Argentinian Juan Monaco, but will the Spaniard ever be able to return to his former glory after a year ravaged by injury? Nadal spent lengthy spells out of action in 2012 following his second round defeat at Wimbledon, and since then he has missed the London Olympics, the US Open and the … [Read more...]