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 9, 2010 · 1 Comment
Some of the following words were penned over the past week, part of daily coverage of major international sporting events being held both here stateside and over the Atlantic across the length and breadth of España. Some are thoughts I’ve articulated with other writers, grappled with amongst coworkers at the day job, and discussed amongst friends. Others are fast-paced thoughts happening in real time, regurgitated verbatim as they spew from... Read More
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Posted by Zach Bigalke on September 8, 2010 · 1 Comment
It was back to work for most everyone in the United States, and the stars of tennis were no exception as they graced the grounds of the USTA National Tennis Center. The youngsters took to the outer courts to wind their way down to the weekend finals. The pros took to the show courts, the men completing the fourth round and the women starting to whittle down from eight to four.
Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi, who I talked about yesterday... Read More
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Posted by Zach Bigalke on September 5, 2010 · Leave a Comment
You had to look really hard for an upset today at Flushing Meadows, a large reason why the U.S. Open took a backseat in the American news cycle to the start of the 2010 college football season today. The chalk held all across the board in both men’s and women’s singles, and about the only place a legitimate ouster of a heavy favorite occurred was in doubles. Read More
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Posted by Zach Bigalke on August 30, 2010 · Leave a Comment
So I broke down both sides of the singles draws when the 32 seeds were revealed. There weren’t too many surprises, the U.S. Open a tournament that deigns to seed mostly by the current ATP rankings. But we’ve got a little more insight into how the last Grand Slam of the 2010 tennis season might play out now that the full brackets are revealed. So before play begins tomorrow it is probably a good idea to look one last time at the focal points... Read More
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