Posted by Zach Bigalke on September 6, 2011 · Leave a Comment
We’ve arrived midway through the U.S. Open, and the draws are slowly being whittled away in Flushing Meadows. I’ve been sitting on the opposite side of the country, catching snippets of coverage in between the day job and covering college football over the weekend. Labor Day presented a day away from work, with nothing else dominating the sports calendar, and CBS and ESPN combined for a full day of coverage from all the courts of the Billie... Read More
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Posted by Zach Bigalke on January 27, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Australian tennis fans would have loved nothing more than to see one of their own win their Grand Slam. It has been thirty-three years since the host nation saw a compatriot hoist the trophy in triumph, since Chris O’Neil concluded that last great era that introduced other greats such as Evonne Goolagong Cawley and Margaret Court and Kerry Melville Reid on the tennis world. It has been even longer for the gentlemen, Mark Edmondson concluding the... Read More
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Posted by Zach Bigalke on January 16, 2011 · Leave a Comment
We’re mere hours from the start of the 2011 Australian Open. The preview is coming late, and this is the first time in four years that I’m not linked into cable television for the tournament. (For all my gripes about television, the main one is the cost — yet somehow it ended up that my wife and I were plugged at that moment in three different domiciles in three consecutive years.) I’m also without internet at the house still, over a month... Read More
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Posted by Zach Bigalke on September 3, 2010 · Leave a Comment
In the wake of that blundering performance by Andy Roddick on Wednesday night, the U.S. Open reawakened on Thursday with renewed purpose as those players still alive in the touranment got back to the business of playing tennis. I spoke my nickel’s worth earlier today in my weekly column about the aftermath of Roddick’s behavior and even offered a few links to other people’s writing on the subject there. So for those who didn’t... Read More
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Posted by Zach Bigalke on August 31, 2010 · 2 Comments
Men’s and women’s singles play got underway on Monday at Flushing Meadows, the last Grand Slam tournament of the season finally arriving on the calendar. The courts of the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center were full throughout the day as the first-round matches played out amidst the heat of the New York summer. And to kick things off, Arthur Ashe Stadium hosted last year’s All-American darling Melanie Oudin as she tried... Read More
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