As many people may know, I'm something of a tennis fan, and follow professional tennis fairly closely. Since I've been following pro tennis for the past decade or so, I've developed a decent repertoire of tennis trivia, which has been useful only for impressing my friend while we were watching the U.S. Open, and talking…
While my mind is on the subject of sports being unfair, I thought I'd dive into perhaps my favorite professional sport: tennis. Tennis is, for the most part, a pretty fair game. There is, of course, some variability related to an individual player's performance on a given day, meaning that the winner of a single…
The date was July 6, 2008. I sleepily crawled out of bed at 9 a.m. to watch the men's final of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships. If you are a tennis fan, then you probably remember this match. It is widely considered the greatest tennis match of all time. What made it great? Well, it pitted…
I started playing tennis at the ripe age of 16, which was actually too old if I wanted any hope of being good at the sport (most of the people I played against had been playing since they could pick up a racket). In hopes of doing well on my high school team, I practiced…