It has been quite a while since I posted here on The Tennis Times. I have wanted to keep this site up to date, but finding the time at the moment is near impossible. Im on the look out for anyone and everyone help me to keep the site up to date. I love tennis and really want to give something back to the sport. If you are interested in writting on The Tennis Times and having your say then please get in touch!
p.s. Good luck to Roger Federer and Andy Murray tomorrow in the Australian Open Mens Singles final for 2010.
Here at The Tennis Times you might have noticed that there hasnt been too much activity this month. Additionally you may have just noticed our new design. We have been trying to upgrade our service while at the same time find more time to provide you with the latest happens from around the world of tennis.
Improvements:
New design interface which we hope will make it easier to find the articles they are looking for and to navigate through the site
Twitter growth. Our twitter account @thetennistimes has been growing rapidly over the last few months, so if your not already following us make sure you are!
Coming Improvements:
More player profiles
Forums
Frequency of posts we are hoping to improve by the end of the year. If you have any tips make sure you send them our way.
If you have any suggestions make sure you get in touch via our Twitter account.
We have just launched a new tennis community over at Reddit. Reddit is a system in which users can signup for Free and then submit and vote up their favourite news stories.
Once there you simply need to register for Free. Then you need to make sure you have joined the TennisNews reddit. Finally, once all that is complete then you are able to submit any tennis link you want to the community.
The aim of this is to keep all the best tennis news sources in one place and let the tennis community vote up the articles that they like in which will bring only the best to the top, but will also allow the users to find interesting new tennis resources.
Please help us build up this community and really try to give a great resource back into the communities hands.
Here at The Tennis Times we have made some very large changes to the site and its design today. The content within the site hasn’t changed but we have updated the feel of the site with the aim of providing a much better experience for our readers.
Colours
The colour change will be the first thing that you notice coming back to the site. We have aimed to have a much lighter site that is easier to read. The fonts are also very simple and aim to help our readers easily run through the articles.
Categories
All major categories can be found at the top of the page which allows readers to quickly jump and find what they are looking for. If you are still unable to find the article you are looking for then simply use the search tool found at the top of every page.
Sidebar
Our new sidebar is great for navigation. We have recent articles, tags, and pages in our sidebar. Additionally we have kept our old attendance section which allows us to see how many people have been visiting compared to the Grand Slams.
Advertising
The new site is a lot better than the old site in terms of advertising. We have eliminated most of the useless sponsors that weren’t helping our readers. Now we have a new sponsorship placement at the top of the page and one in the sidebar. We are hoping in the coming months to open up sponsorship/fixed monthly placements at the top of the sidebar.
Overall
We at The Tennis Times are very happy with the new site and how it is going to help our readers find out whats new in the world of tennis.
If you have any suggestions on what you would like to see added to The Tennis Times then please get in touch.
As most of you have already noticed we have added a new image to our sidebar here at The Tennis Times. The aim of this image is to show our readers how many people have been attending the Grand Slams for 2009, and then just for good measure we have added how many people have visited The Tennis Times for 2009. I thought this would just be an interesting addition and we are aiming to beat all Grand Slams by the end of 2009!
Here at The Tennis Times we have been thinking for a long time about services that we can add which will help players and readers of our site. Im writing this post because we are thinking of adding a Forum to the site. The forum will discuss topics such as tennis news, latest results, looking for sponsorships, tennis jobs and more. I realise there are a few large tennis forums already out there in the market, but do you think it will be benficialy and more the point it will get used on The Tennis Times?
Andre Agassi will be playing two matches for the Philadelphia Freedoms in World Team Tennis this summer.
The league announced Thursday that Agassi will compete on July 10th in Philadelphia and July 17th in Newport Beach.
Agassi, who retired in 2006 with eight career Grand Slam titles, has already played before a couple of times for World Team Tennis. Other stars who will make appearances in the league include Serena and Venus Williams, John McEnroe, Anna Kournikova and Martina Navratilova.
The league, co-founded by Billie Jean King, will play in 10 cities from July 2-26.
Quite a few questions have been raised about Federer’s physical condition. What is going on? Is he injured? Or is it only a preventive break? Federer himself said right before the Australian Open:”I feel the way I wanted to feel before this tournament.” And:”I am fit and am in a better shape than last year.” So how come suddenly this break again? Even his fitness coach said he was fit that it was just am preventive break. So might his physical preparation be insufficient?
We can only guess in what condition Federer’s really in, because no official bulletin was available. Some specialists think his problem is mainly the stability between the shoulder girdle and his waist. Some Swiss physiotherapists reckon he is not fit enough, one of them is Adrik Mantingh, physiotherapist of several professional sportsmen. Mantingh, after analyzing Federer’s physical preparation methods, is not convinced that those are the best methods and thinks only thanks to his technical superiority it is possible to neglect some aspects in the physical preparation. Mantingh goes on:”When you are young this is no problem. But when you get older it starts to become a problem.” Breaks would therefore not solve the problem but only delay it.
Of course the physical burden is enormous. Federer played in his career as a professional already 777 Single and 183 Doubles matches. If you divide this into his ten year career this means about 100 matches a year, adding of course all the travelling, training, media and sponsor events… This means a lot of stress and pressure. “Considering this, tennis is a really intensive sport, because you get only one break at the end of the year,” says Mantingh, “but with judicious training it is manageable.”
Federer plans his comeback to be in Indian Wells this March. Untill then I guess he, together with his team, needs to make the right choices if he wants to become the number one once again…
Here at The Tennis Times we have been a little occupied over the Christmas period be we are gearing up for the Australian Open started very soon.
So what can you expect from The Tennis Times for 2009? We are aiming to have more tennis news from all tours than any other news source. Sick of hearing just about the top players in the world? We will also let you know about the lower level tour players and results. The Tennis Times is also tired of just reading the major results so we will be bringing you overall results from all tours at the end of every week. As well as all that we are hoping to provide more equipment reviews and more player profiles as well.
We would also like to hear your thoughts about what you want to see on the site for 2009, so please let us know via our contact page. Overall stay tuned for a lot of developments in 2009!
Here at The Tennis Times we are trying to find ways everyone can get all the latest tennis news easily and quickly.
We have now added a new widget to Widgetbox in which you can use and place on your website, myspace, blogs, igoogle, netvibes, and other start pages. Head here to grab it!
We have just launched a new tennis community over at Reddit. Reddit is a system in which users can signup for Free and then submit and vote up their favourite news stories.
Here at The Tennis Times we have been a little occupied over the Christmas period be we are gearing up for the Australian Open started very soon.
