Tag: TENNIS

Few sporting events are more deeply rooted in tradition than Wimbledon, where applause is always kept to a polite murmur and staid dress codes are strictly enforced. This year, though, the world's most celebrated tennis tournament will be filmed in 3-D for the first time, with the semi-final and championship matches being broadcast in movie theaters around the world. Sony will produce the ...

Whether you're rooting for Rafa, Federer or Roddick, broadcasters are pretty much guaranteeing you won't have an excuse to miss this year's 2010 U.S. Open tennis tournament, which begins today and ends September 12th. According to Paid Content, fans can view about 200 matches of this year's tournament, totaling about 600 hours, for free on the Web. The best place to start is the official U.S. ...

As is the case with many other sports, tennis is struggling to get hold of Twitter, the microblogging phenom, and understand just how to regulate it. At this year's U.S. Open, it appears the tweets have hit the fan. Andy Roddick, for one, isn't too happy about it, either. According to the Associated Press, Roddick has been using Twitter to publicly voice his displeasure over a number of signs ...

Tennis star Andy Roddick, known for having the fastest serve in the world, has been showing his game off the court, too, via Twitter. Since tennis stars are unhindered by team owners, head coaches and the like, Twitter is running rampant on and off the court, according to The New York Times. Roddick might not be the sport's darling he once was, but he's certainly tennis' tweeting phenom -- ...

Just yesterday, Maria Sharapova, a tennis star known for her beauty as well as her overhand, donned a dress that really lit up the room -- whenever her cell phone rang, that is. Posed in the display window of London's upscale department store Liberty, the former Wimbledon champion and current ambassador to Sony Ericsson modeled the high-tech prototype, which connects to the wearer's cell phone ...

German tennis player Boris Becker, who has won Wimbledon three times, was broken up with via text message last month, says Textually.org. Becker's 25-year-old ex-fiancee, Sandy Meyer-Woelden, apparently broke off her wedding with the 40-year-old tennis champ via a string of five text messages. Becker explained: I suddenly got an SMS from Sandy... saying that this was it, that this was over. ...

We braved packed subways and hordes of polo shirts, ankle-length white tube socks and visors to check out the US Open in New York last week (thanks to Olympus, which invited us to test out a couple of its new digital cameras at the event. Between the matches, we were able to sit down for an interview with Jay Kinghorn, an experienced sports shooter, photography lecturer, and author of 'Perfect ...

How would we describe Lacoste's vision of the future of tennis? Hmmm. Here goes... Imagine your favorite tennis player. Now toss in a pinch of 'Robocop,' a dash of P Diddy's white party, and a whole bunch of 'Tron.' Mix this all together and you will start to have an idea of what Lacoste has cooked up. Lacoste's vision, set 75 years in the future (in honor of Lacoste's 75th-anniversary) is a ...