Posted by Zach Bigalke on June 24, 2011 · Leave a Comment
With the second round closing up today at Wimbledon and the start of third-round matches, we’re nearing the first weekend with the brackets and the shape of this year’s slice of history beginning to crystallize out of the raw materials of pre-match expectation. The first two rounds are the place where we discover the very best that tennis has to offer… and bring out the very worst for those who fail to deliver on expectation. With... Read More
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Posted by Zach Bigalke on May 21, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Is it time for a changing of the guard? That’s the big story currently dominating the men’s side of the draw. Unlike the women’s draw, all the big names will put their names on the line at Roland Garros, so there will be no asterisk for the man who emerges from the draw to take the championship.
We’ve watched the top dog become the third wheel, and a guy who was formerly the odd man out blaze a path through the winter and spring... Read More
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Posted by Zach Bigalke on January 16, 2011 · 1 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 9, 2010 · 3 Comments
The final Wednesday at Flushing Meadows saw the men’s and women’s singles and doubles draws pared back enough to play out the day at just Arthur Ashe Stadium and Louis Armstrong Stadium, closing down the Grandstand for another season. Before we get to that action, though, the junior courts offered up some interesting outcomes amongst those players who could very well be destined to become the future stars we’re following on the WTA... Read More
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