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Posted on June 30, 2008 - by The Insider

Not Even Basic Images of Players on the Wimbledon Website

Today I was looking at the Wimbledon website and noticed that some of the players in the main draw still dont have a picture of themselves on the site. Wimbledon is the worlds most well known tennis tournament and to think that they cant even get a picture of all 400+ athletes on their website for the tournament is a bit of a disgrace. These pictures are obviously passed down from the ATP or WTA and they dont seem to be updated very often (every decade or so), so how is this a big deal to get done!

Tennis organisations currently seems to lack a lot of effort. Officials are always talking about trying to make tennis more appealing to the broader public, however how can I even support a player if I dont even know what he looks like. From a players point of view it just seem like the fact that you work your ass of to get to Wimbledon main draw and the lazy people cant even get a picture of me on their website. Poor!


Posted on June 30, 2008 - by The Insider

The Virtual Tennis Coach Design Concept

Here is an interesting concept. This design is a tennis training tool that is supposed to teach you by acting as a virtual coach.

For one, you’d need some type of 3D accelerometer and lots of fun math calculations for the computer to figure out exactly how the tennis player is swinging then the virtual coach would tell the player to correct him/herself.

Well it does seem like an interesting concept but come on is it seriously going to help someone play tennis, probably not!


Posted on June 28, 2008 - by The Insider

Novak Djokovic With a Classic Moment

I know that millions of people have already seen this clip, but in the first week of this blog I really wanted to share it again with everyone. Every time I see it I have to laugh, its so funny.


Posted on June 27, 2008 - by The Insider

Tennis Blogs Actually Worth Reading

Currently there really arent too many good tennis blogs worth reading. Tennis has been slowly decreasing in popularity mainly because tennis is portrayed to be quite boring and not much is known about the actual players. However, these blogs are definitely worth reading so go and check them out!


Posted on June 27, 2008 - by The Insider

Wimbledon Raining. Is That A Surprise

As we all know it is only a matter of time before it starts raining at Wimbledon. This year it has done quite well, day 5 is the first time this year the covers had to come out. I was aiming to start The Tennis Times on the first day of the Championships, but we got a little delayed.

wimbledon from above

That all being said there has been some great action already with Djokovic and Roddick going out of the draw in the early rounds.

I watched the Roddick match the other day and he seemed very lackluster. However the condition were quite poor and very windy, but thats taking nothing away from the consistency shown by Janko Tipsarevic. Djokovic on the other hand played quite well in his second round match again Marat Safin, but the sleeping giant that is Safin pulled a classic performance out of the bag. Safin has always had the talent, but with injuries and lack of focus, he has been the under achiever for a while now. That is taking nothing away from his level of partying, which ive heard he does throw the best parties!


Posted on June 27, 2008 - by The Insider

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