Exhibition
Historic Twitter Moment in Professional Tennis; Courier Sends Tweets While Playing McEnroe
Jim Courier defeated John McEnroe last night 6-3, 4-6, 10-4 which he had done twice before in his career. But this was the first time main stream America was able to visit inside Courier’s head during the match. Jim Courier sent updates to his ~900 Twitter followers at each change over. This was a unique [...]
3May2009 | US Tennis Network | 3 comments | Continued
Pete Sampras Gets W In His Third Attempt vs. Roger Federer
Pete took his first W against The Roger in the third and final exhibition match in Macao, China. Once again, Sampras was facing a set point against him, but this time Sampras was serving and his big gun did not let him down. The change in this match came at 3-3 in the [...]
24Nov2007 | US Tennis Network | Comments Off | Continued
Sampras vs. Federer – Match #2
Pete won the toss and for the first time, Roger will not win the first point of the duel.
Pete did dump a backhand into the net, but pulled out the first game thanks to a chair overrule on a double fault called by the service line judge.
As predicted, there were no smiles in the first [...]
Sampras vs. Federer – Match #1
I had always wanted to see a rematch of the pivotal match Federer and Sampras played in 2001. With great anticipation, I watched the encore presentation of this morning’s Supermatch in Asia.
Roger won the first game at love as he did in 2001. I quickly wondered if this was going to be short, embarassing, disappointing [...]
