Something’s really shitty is happening when one player from Israel gets bumped at a tennis tournament and another is allowed to play. Such is the case at the annual Dubai Tennis Championships when Israeli female tennis star Shahar Peer was denied a visa to play there, while her male colleague,...

We are deeply disappointed by the decision of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) denying Shahar Peer a Visa that would permit her to enter the country to play in the Dubai Tennis Championships. Ms. Peer has earned the right to play in the tournament and it is regrettable that the UAE is denying her this...

Well this is a whole lot of bullshit. All the hoopla surrounding Shahar Peer possibly playing Dubai is all for......

Justin Gimelstob, Andrea Jaeger, and John Carlos all shot their mouths off when they should have known better. One way to explain it is to say that Justin Gimelstob had a meltdown. During an appearance on a Washington based radio show a few weeks ago, he called Anna Kournikova a “bitchâ€� and a â€...

Lately, there's been much clamoring around the internet about tennis steamstress Ashley Harkleroad's upcoming Playboy spread this month. With good reason, of course. Based on her recent ESPN the Mag interview about the shoot, she seems affable, confident, and very into herself: "I'm not a very modes...

Ana Ivanovic is deservedly known for her powerful service game, but her fist pump repertoire could use a little help So there I was on a recent evening, trolling around on the tennis boards looking for mischief, as I am want to do at times when I have little or next to nothing to do. There I find pe...

Are we all still standing? Living and breathing? As Wimbledon closes in stupendous fashion with the men’s final, some final thoughts on what Venus and Serena Williams achieved here too Such was the greatness of the Rafa-Roger final yesterday that it nearly obliterated from memory what was a great ...

Venus beat her sister Serena and Rafa beat Roger at Wimbledon in a totally glorious weekend of tennis at Wimbledon Roger Federer had come back from two sets down to even the match at 2-2 in the fifth set of his Wimbledon final against Rafael Nadal when the rains came a second time. This was five hou...

Serena and Venus Williams are on their way to a sister to sister final at Wimbledon but I’m not paying much attention. What’s my problem? Two sportscasters were talking about the current state of U.S. sports on the radio this afternoon. The U.S. is currently ranked 30th in the world in soccer, f...

This is my first article at Tennis Diary, although I’m no stranger to the MVN network (you can find my other work over at Chop ‘n Change).  I’m also no stranger to the WTA Tour.  A couple of summers ago, I was lucky enough to land a legal internship with the WTA Tour.  My time t...