A great tennis match & Aussie fielding
I witnessed one of the finest tennis matches in a long time. Most would say it was Federer Vs Nadal Final at 2007 French open. Well in that case, they didn’t see the semi-final between Nadal and...
View ArticleState of WI Cricket and innovation at Wimbledon
First read this good story on Wimbledon….The Centre Court is being revamped, it would be without its roof this year. They would also be using hawk-eye technology at Wimbledon this year. Now for some...
View ArticleGreat expectations and greater determination
In the last 4 days, I saw some super sporting stuff. It was a mix of both great expectations and greater determination. Let me begin with tennis first. Y’day in Wimbledon, Serena Williams played a...
View ArticleInnovations in Tennis
It is common to find research on various industrial and service sectors. However, it is rare to find reports on how sports industry has evolved and fared overtime. I came across this note from Wharton...
View ArticleThinking about Ministry of Finance/Treasury
We have plenty of literature on central banks, their set-up, their institutional structure etc etc ( see this, this , this, this, this etc for some literature). However, I was earlier thinking – what...
View ArticleLa Decimas: Vamos Rafa..
What a comeback from Rafa and gives me goose pimples as I blog about this. What a player. No words are enough. How he has survived all odds to emerge as a top player is just one story. Here is a...
View ArticleIs Nadal just a clay court specialist?
Interesting analysis in Economist: According to Elo ratings—an algorithm that evaluates players based on their performances and the quality of their opponents, and can be limited to matches played on...
View ArticleHistory of Tennis: Why Is scoring in the game so weirdly?
Interesting piece by Merrill Fabry: All sports have their own vocabularies, the shorthand lingo to communicate intricacies of rules and how play proceeds. But usually the scoring can at least be...
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