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...]
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...]
2013 Australian Open round 1 complete
It's back! Finally the 2013 tennis season has started with the "Happy Slam," the 2013 Australian Open. I generally write my prediction of the tournament a week ahead of the start but this year there have been some personal things going on in my life that have prevented me from writing my predictions. In any event, I did watch the first two days of the tournament (at least … [Read more...]
Time violators will be held accountable in 2013
Tennis time violators beware of your 2013 tennis season. That's right, the players on the ATP will be held accountable to the 20 between points. There is no actual change to the current rule; (Rule 29, section a) CONTINUOUS PLAY - Between points, a maximum of twenty (20) seconds is allowed. When the players change ends at the end of a game, a maximum of ninety (90) seconds are … [Read more...]
Rafa Nadal pulls out of another tournament
When will the tennis world be fortunate enough to see Rafa Nadal play a competitive match again? He is becoming somewhat of an elusive creature who is beginning to sound like the Yetti of tennis...you know of them and hear of them, but they remain to be seen. As of today, it has been exactly six months since Rafa Nadal played a real tennis match, it just so happens that it was … [Read more...]
2013 Australian Open racquet giveaway!
My my my, I can't believe that it's that time already! The Tennisthis.com 2013 Australian Open racquet giveaway is here! Starting 12/4/12, you can enter to win some pretty sweet tennis gear! 2013 Australian Open racquet giveaway! For the 2012 Australian Open, one lucky winner received a brand new Wilson BLX ProStaff Six.One 90 (Roger Federer's choice of racquets), 2013 is … [Read more...]
Laura Robson rounds off season in style
British youngster Laura Robson has rounded off a sensational season by winning the WTA’s newcomer of the year award. The 18-year old follows in the footsteps of the likes of Kim Clijsters, Venus and Serena Williams, Martina Hingis and Maria Sharapova in picking up the newcomer of the year award, in a year that has seen Laura Robson climb up the rankings from 131st to … [Read more...]
Players to watch out for in 2013
Well 2012 has been another fantastic year for tennis. Novak Djokovic cemented his place as world no1 with victory at the ATP Tour Finals, Roger Federer showed he truly is one of the all-time greats by claiming his record equalling 7th Wimbledon title, Rafael Nadal maintained his ‘king of the clay’ moniker by winning yet another Roland Garros and Andy Murray won gold at the … [Read more...]