http://evansreport.tennisweek.com The Evans Report Sat, 12 Sep 2009 20:16:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As rain falls, ruining the end of what, right up until Thursday, had been a fabulous US Open, allow me to take issue with a couple of comments on this site’s message boards. Generally, I love the passion and expertise shown by most of the people who post almost daily ... http://evansreport.tennisweek.com/?p=41 Amidst the fun and games of this sun-splashed US Open we should spare a moment to remember two young men who might have been playing here had they not died far too young. Federico Luzzi of Italy died suddenly from a virulent form of leukemia in 2008 while Frenchman Mathieu Montcourt ... http://evansreport.tennisweek.com/?p=39 After reading some of the comments on the TennisWeek.com message boards concerning television commentary from the ATP Masters 1000 Series tournament in Montreal, I would like to offer a few observations about the current team and the commentary business in general from the perspective of someone lucky enough to have ... http://evansreport.tennisweek.com/?p=37 Wimbledon’s over; those thousands of television viewers inspired by the sight of Roger Federer or Serena Williams sweeping majestically around the Centre Court have made their annual pilgrimage to whatever tennis court they can find and after discovering the game is not as easy as it looks have  gone back ... http://evansreport.tennisweek.com/?p=35 It was Jack Kramer Day in Los Angeles on July 21st and, being on another continent at the time, I nearly missed it! But I can’t let such an occasion pass without comment. Jack Kramer, apart from being the 1947 Wimbledon champion, is a giant of the game; a legend; a grandfather ... http://evansreport.tennisweek.com/?p=33 For the tennis person, Spain’s Costa del Sol — the strip of coastline that runs from Gibraltar in the west and past Malaga to the east — offers a playground of possibilities. There are all manner of places to play, some of which will cost you a couple of bucks and others ... http://evansreport.tennisweek.com/?p=31 It will be the coached against the coachless in the men’s singles final at Wimbledon. Roger Federer will have his team around him, of course, but they do not include an official coach while the man of the moment — other than Andy Roddick himself — will be sitting in the ... http://evansreport.tennisweek.com/?p=29  Last Saturday morning, BBC Radio were asked to broadcast a message from their Wimbledon headquarters: "Please Stay Away — you won’t get in!" Even people joining the queue at 8 a.m. would have had no chance of gaining admittance to the grounds until 5 p.m. — and even that would have depended on ... http://evansreport.tennisweek.com/?p=27 The Players Lounge at the Aegon Championships is the most spacious part of the over-crowded nineteenth century clubhouse at the Queen’s Club. Spread over a couple of indoor courts, it enables one to move freely; eat sumptuously; read the papers and go on line. So I took the opportunity to sit ... http://evansreport.tennisweek.com/?p=22 Three days into Queen’s — now officially the Aegon Championships — and the talk is still of Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. Neither is playing here — they are not playing anywhere this week, in fact — but they dominate the tennis landscape to such an extent that no one can stop talking or ... http://evansreport.tennisweek.com/?p=19