When I was first following tennis the season ended with a great event in Madison Square Garden called “The Masters.” In 1990, players took over the tour and a new year-end event called “The ATP World Championships” was born. However, the ITF was not happy about this and it launched a lucrative season ending event…
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A Modest Proposal: Masters 1000 Events and Solar Panels
NetJets is making strides to go carbon neutral – perhaps they could sponsor this effort The professional tennis tours are fairly carbon intensive. The miles of airline flights and driving (in the case of Murray’s 2009 road trip from Montreal to Cincinnati) add up to a lot of internal combustion engines being used by players and fans…
PEDs: Lance Armstrong & MLB’s Lessons for Tennis
Performance Enhancing Drugs have made minimal news in the world of tennis. Major League Baseball begins considering MLB Hall of Fame credentials from players from the gaudy steroid era (juiced ball explanations ran afoul). Cycling has Lance Armstrong possibly coming clean due to any number of first person accounts rendering plausible deniability moot. Cycling and…
Tennis Abides: Dan Martin on Tennis and Life 