The Tennis Server and Receiver, Ready… Play!
Rule 8 of the ITF Rules of Tennis, as printed in the USTA Friend at Court, is titled “Server & Receiver.” This section essentially does nothing other than to define those two terms.
Rule Changes in the News, 1994 Edition
When I was looking for a media source of the events described in the “An Inconvenient Truth” post, I mentioned that a random twitter userRead More
We Shall Discuss the Match Tie-Break Today
While the rules of tennis are fairly straight forward and compact in the main body, the appendices are extensive, convoluted, and the place where all hell breaks loose such as shortened scoring and other alternative formats. This brings us to the topic of the match tie-break.
Equal Promotion Takes Center Stage
The US Soccer Federation shocks me. Not because blatant misogyny is a a clear problem for that organization, but rather because it is so deeply rooted that it is regarded as a valid legal claim. So what does this have to do with tennis?
Best-of-five: Number Crunching the 2020 Australian Open
When I started in on the best-of-three and best-of-five set rules for matches, I mentioned that the format is inextricably linked to gender politics. InRead More
WTA Player Age Eligibility Rules Genesis: Summer of 1994
I think that I would have skipped on past the nuance that the WTA Age eligibility rules emerged from the insane summer of 1994, butRead More
The Crazy Summer of 1994 Part 2: The WTA
Yesterday in Part 1 of the Crazy Summer of 1994, I wrote about how turmoil in many of the WTA star player’s lives were dominatingRead More
The Crazy Summer of 1994 Part 1: The Players
Context is important to fully understand any historical event. Today I want to take us back in time to the summer of 1994 as bracketedRead More
An Inconvenient Truth
Every once in a while there is a modern perspective about past events that doesn’t exactly align with all the facts. Current conventional wisdom isRead More
Best-of-five, a Major, and the WTA (Oh my!)
On March 29 1994, Tennis Australia announced that the finals of the women’s singles the following year would be played best-of-five sets. If history wasRead More