Thanks to an appreciation inspired by my mother Virginia, who spent her career working in the industry, I have long been interested in fashion.
This year’s Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute Gala in New York on May 4th… continue reading
Simona Halep’s retirement from tennis at the Transylvania Open in Cluj Napoca this month had a certain synchronicity. Cluj (as the locals call it) is a 600 kilometre or so drive from Halep’s seaside hometown of Constanta on the Black … continue reading
Stating the obvious, a tennis event that is 142 years old has a sizeable library indexing its past. Nonetheless, the US Open, held August 29–September 11, at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadow-Corona Park, Queens, New … continue reading
Below is a sampling of the “Bits And Bobs…” that made the 2022 tournament anything but a “Humble Roast Dinner…”
Kramer And Smith Anniversaries
While the Centre Court Centenary dominated the headlines, two other anniversaries should not be overlooked – … continue reading
On November 19th “King Richard”, the biopic movie about the singular approach that Richard Williams used to develop the tennis talents of his daughters, Venus and Serena, was released. Early reviews praised the production along with the cast. That … continue reading
During the pandemic, life has become one big Zoom call. Circumstances have made it the communication “go to…” Virtually everyone has been relying on the app. Tennis journalists have gone even further, taking full advantage of the crisis enhanced “modernizations”. … continue reading
The weather has been in the “mids” (mid-70s to mid-80s degrees) during the first week of Roland Garros, with the threat of rain approaching…after all it is Paris and it is June. The conditions have opened the virus limiting doors … continue reading