Welcome to my website! I am a Stanford student who loves writing and tennis, so I decided to combine them by starting this blog in early 2010. (You can find older articles in the monthly archive.) I have published articles in Tennis View Magazine (USA), Australia Tennis Magazine, and the New York Observer magazine so far, as well as on a few tennis websites. Please contact me if you like what you read here and would like me to write something for you.
I write about anything and everything connected to tennis, evenly balanced between the ATP and WTA. Typically, I write pre-tournament previews of each Premier Mandatory, Premier Five, and Masters 1000 tournament as well as several of the lesser events with strong draws; these previews break down the draws quarter by quarter and project the semifinalists. As each tournament progresses, I write match-by-match previews of later rounds. For Slams, I write three-part previews during the previous week, a quarter-by-quarter draw breakdown on the previous weekend, and daily previews of the most intriguing matches (not necessarily those featuring the top players) during the first week. During the second week of the Slam, I preview every match.
After important tournaments and some less important tournaments, I write articles on the key events and performers of the previous week or fortnight. Also, I preview all rounds of Fed Cup and Davis Cup, sometimes including the playoff rounds. Finally, I write player profiles and more thematic articles during slower stretches of the season, often in response to your requests.
You can follow me on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/sharapovanovic if you want bite-sized morsels as well as full servings!
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March 25, 2010 at 2:04 pm
Ian
Website looks great and the content is excellent!
April 16, 2010 at 1:08 am
survivordean
I suggest you put “recent posts” below your Twitter Updates on the sidebar for easy navigation.
April 24, 2010 at 11:19 am
Ed McGrogan
Hey, I just caught your piece that also touches on the doubles rubber being problematic at fifth — didn’t see this beforehand, but I’ll be sure to give it a meniton in my Monday column (First Serve). Thanks for link/mention on Twitter —
Ed
May 11, 2010 at 8:57 pm
art
whose photos are you using on your interesting web site? why no photo credits?
May 11, 2010 at 10:03 pm
sharapovanovic
Thank you for asking! I use http://www.picapp.com, which is an excellent site with numerous photos that one can copy legally. If you go there, you will see that each of those images is listed with an “image embed code”; by copying and pasting the code into your blog post, the photo credit is accomplished. (There are a few slight variations according to whether you use WordPress, Blogspot, etc.) A reader can click on the “gallery” icon that appears on the lower left corner of each image to find it in its original context. The site is very well-organized for various types of searches, and the selection is marvelous, so I definitely would recommend that you go there if you are looking for photos yourself.
June 21, 2010 at 6:33 am
Awalbon
Whre are you located?…not that it matters much – but wondering if you will be covering the Cincy Tournament in August?
June 21, 2010 at 3:58 pm
sharapovanovic
I’m located in California, but of course I’ll be covering both Cincinnati events. I’m attending the Stanford and San Diego tournaments during the two preceding weeks.
October 13, 2010 at 11:30 pm
Peter
Hey there, I follow and consistently read 40Deuce and just saw that you have a blog! It looks great and I’m now going to be update with your blog via twitter! Keep on rocking and if you would like to cover Justine Henin more that would be awesome for the coming year! But of course seeing Ana’s improvements and getting that inundated from you and C Note would be awesome for 2011!
October 20, 2010 at 6:57 am
Jay Oca
Dear Sharapovanovic,
I “follow” you on Twitter. I’m interested in exchanging tennis site links with you and can add a direct link on my tennis website in return.
Thus far my site has been visited by 170 different countries. I am truly passionate about tennis and hope to share my enthusiasm with everyone.
To see the aims of OnCourt Advantage please click here -> http://www.oncourtadvantage.com/about-2/
Please send me your link details so that I can post your link on my website as soon as possible. I am also interested in writing a guest story/blog/article for your site, if you are interested.
My link details:
Title: TENNIS: OnCourt Advantage
URL: http://www.oncourtadvantage.com
Thank you very much for your time and I look forward to your reply.
Kind regards,
Jay Oca
October 20, 2010 at 9:23 pm
sharapovanovic
Dear Jay,
Thank you for your note and your interest! I responded by email to the address that you provided.
Cheers,
Sharapovanovic
December 21, 2010 at 2:52 am
Sexylicioustina
Great job on your blog. Cant thank u enuf 4 this site. Im a big Ana fan and ive been a big fan of ur site! I like Masha t0o. Ü hope Ana and Masha get to read ur blog 0ne day 🙂
December 26, 2010 at 6:51 am
Yolita
I LOVED your predictions for 2011! Most of them, anyway. 🙂 I so hope you’re right!
Very nice blog. 😀
January 15, 2011 at 3:34 am
malia
ur website..is truly amazing ! a complete tennis package ! 🙂
August 2, 2011 at 3:16 am
bero
hi, ur website is great!!!!! i found it before 6 months, and i read all ur posts. maybe u could do more betting anyalises because i bet on tenis every 2-3 days and u are tennis master 😀 and i think u will have more visitors if u have more anyalises 🙂
August 18, 2011 at 10:53 pm
Top10TennisNetwork (@Top10TennisNetw)
Hey this website is awesome! I just had a question directly to you. Is this your actual job, or just a sort of part-time hobby? I’ll await your answer before I ask anything further, but I’m just very curious because you do such a good job and I’ll be impressed if just do this in your spare time.
August 18, 2011 at 11:58 pm
sharapovanovic
Hi! Glad that you liked the website. I actually run the website and the Twitter account during my free time from my work as a law student. (My second year of law school starts next month.) It’s a challenge to coordinate the time-sensitive articles with my other activities sometimes, but I almost always manage to find an opening. In the future, I would like to work both in law and in tennis journalism. Thus far, I have written articles for the Australian Open website, Australia Tennis Magazine (an Henin retrospective), Tennis View Magazine (cover feature on this year’s US Open), and the New York Observer magazine (spotlight on eight rising stars to watch at the US Open). I hope to write more articles for these publications in the future!
August 19, 2011 at 2:05 pm
Top10TennisNetwork (@Top10TennisNetw)
I’m impressed! I was just curious because I love making tennis videos/highlights, and I was going to ask how you got into the business of tennis, but I guess you just do it as a hobby like me so that question isn’t exaclty relevant.. Keep up the great work though!
January 14, 2012 at 6:49 pm
OnCourt Advantage
Congratulations on your selection by the Australian Open official website as a FAN-bassador for the 2012 Australian Open! The Australian Open chose this site among the first in a select group of FAN-bassadors because of your outstanding Australian Open coverage and social media commenting, tweeting and online conversation.
I am very proud that my site was selected too especially since even more Australian Open fans can now find my daily Australian Open coverage via the AO fan centre section of the AO website-> http://www.australianopen.com/en_AU/fancentre/blogs/outer/index.html
I have always loved the Australian Open and have been going there for years being originally from Melbourne, especially because the Australian Open keep striving to be the best by looking for ways to do more things and do things even better.
This a real core belief I regard as a key to life as I write on my “ABOUT ME” page, “I am motivated to be the best I can be on a daily basis. My passion and career is tennis. In order to be the best I can be I continually hunt for better ways of doing everything, I realise that nobody knows it all and instead of protecting my current level, I invest my energy into investigating, researching, testing and re-evaluating so that I evolve and improve every day.”
The Australian Open demonstrates this by adding new features like FAN-bassador pages, doing a live stream of the men and women’s qualifying singles events (free of charge) for the first time this year and sharing the ability to live stream around the internet with others. I love having the Australian Open TV on my site to watch these matches on.
Australian Open 2012…BRING IT ON!!!
January 18, 2012 at 4:06 pm
Sangmin
Simply amazing! I got to know your blog thanks to your message at law talk, and it’s great to see that SLS has people like you. Considering you know so much about tennis, I guess you also play great tennis. Hope to hit together some time or at least sit and chat over coffee about tennis!