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Just five months into his job as president of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), Etienne de Villiers faced a hostile crowd of doubles pros at the Masters Cup in Shanghai to explain to them why he would have to curtail their sport to save it. The players had already filed suit against the ATP, and there was De Villiers last November, back swinging just four months after cancer surgery, telling them he was going to go ahead with a shortened, no-ad scoring system; a super tie-break instead of a third set; and a rule that doubles players...
Resolving the troubles in doubles is the most visible example of how the straight-shooting South African is reinventing this most conservative sport. Bob Bryan, one of the pros who initiated the lawsuit along with his twin brother Mike--they're the top doubles team in the world--now lobs compliments via e-mail: "He's a cool guy who doesn't need this gig. He just wants to help tennis and the tour...
...like, while each tournament director scrambles to woo top names. De Villiers is the referee, trying to strengthen tennis while balancing the needs of tournament directors and players. To complicate matters, national or local tennis federations govern the Grand Slams--the Australian, French and U.S. Opens and Wimbledon, the sport's biggest events--and the International Tennis Federation oversees Davis Cup matches between countries. The result is a scheduling nightmare in which even the smallest changes become political...
...wearing ankle boots tucked into pants. I have always admitted she is a very talented woman. Unfortunately, however, this is another trend where a raging vitamin deficiency or having the thighs of a four-year-old are necessary for showing off your style. If one is desperate to sport this footwear and is of vitamin-filled size, the best way to pull off (or pull on, as it were) ankle boots is to wear them with opaque tights. This keeps the line of the leg uninterrupted and makes it less weird that you are wearing what is basically a black...
...World Series on Sunday night when Rogers allegedly made use of pine tar, a sticky substance expressly prohibited of pitchers by Major League Baseball. Almost as soon as the Fox cameras zoomed in on the now-infamous yellowish-brown smudge on Roger’s left hand, all the sports columnists and baseball experts began preparing their own take on one of baseball’s most common and poorly kept secrets.Yet somehow, the only thing that shocked me about the whole incident was how indiscreet Rogers was about his use of pine tar. I would have expected a little...