The CA desert or Tennis in South Beach? How about both?

Say you live in North America.  More specifically, say you live in Canada or on the American East coast; not in abstract terms, but say that you’re living there right now, currently, when it’s -18ºC or 0ºF outside and cold as all hell. Say you live there. That would mean...
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Posted on February 17, 2016

A rich tennis tradition in Australia

Is Australian tennis back?  Really, it’s not just us asking the question. Christopher Clarey, from the venerable New York Times, explained at the start of the 2015 season that the ascension of a few Aussie youngsters hints at “signs of Austalian tennis revival.” The current crop of Aussie men has...
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Posted on November 23, 2015

Full days at the Aussie Open

Alright, so where were we? You think you know who will win the Australian Open, but you still want to see it with your own two eyes, so you have bought a plane ticket to Melbourne and sat through that long, long journey. ’Twas long, but not that bad because...
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Posted on November 2, 2015

A pleasurable plane ride to Oz

If you had 24+ hours to spend on a flight, what would you do? According to the Google search I completed just now, the quickest flight from where I live, in Montreal, Canada, to the site of the Australian Open, in Melbourne, Australia, lasts 24:43. So let’s run with that...
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Posted on October 19, 2015

Welcome to the Big Apple

It’s the city so nice that the Gods named it twice. Or better yet, they say that a (Big) apple a day keeps the doctor away. Forget the lame puns, sure, but the point is that right now all eyes of the tennis world are on New York and will...
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Posted on September 15, 2015