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The Gilbert and Murray Deal

A British friend of mine sent me this story from today’s London Telegraph: The richest coaching contract in the history of British tennis was confirmed yesterday, with Brad Gilbert becoming an employee of the Lawn Tennis Association, and the domestic game’s ruling body then leasing the American out to Andy Murray as the teenager’s new [...]

Connors, Courier. and Roddick

If you watched the RCA Indianapolis final over the weekend, you saw the result of Andy Roddick’s two-week visit with his new advisor: Jimmy Connors! Can he help him?

Play two?

This question came in from a friend: “During the third set of a close semi-final match at a recent USTA Senior Sectional Tournament (not my match), player A was serving & faulted on his first serve. Before he could hit the second serve, a ball rolled on to his court from an adjacent court. [...]

Chargers Doubles Tourney

This weekend, I partnered with B. Manning in a 4.0-5.0 (any age) hard court doubles tournament at Colby Sawyer College in New London, New Hampshire.

The other Andy

According to a British friend of mine, when asked about Brad Gilbert rumored to become Andy Murray’s new coach: “For the moment I believe that it is local TV and press talk who are also saying the LTA is paying part of the fees rumoured to be around £500,000 but nobody seems to be [...]

What’s wrong with Roddick?

What’s wrong with Roddick? Andy Roddick can boom the serve and hit big forehands; but that does not appear to be enough to win any major titles. He just lost to young Andy Murray at Wimbledon in a match, in my opinion, he should have won. So what’s wrong?