Olympic Tennis Review 2008: The Best to This Point

In my review of Olympic tennis events, one trend emerged from 1988-2004: The Women’s Event Was Better than the Men’s.  In 2000, a streaking Venus Williams went 3 tight sets in a semifinal tilt with the veteran Monica Seles.  In 1988, Steffi Graf beat Gabriela Sabatini .  The 1992, 1996 and 2004 games all delivered…

Olympic Tennis Review: 2004 Chile Came to Play

2004 saw the the Olympic games once again fall between Wimbledon and the US Open.  Much like the Atlanta games these games were held on a similar hard court surface to that of the US Open.  This was more desirable than the red clay of the 1992 games, but the games being in Athens meant…