Tag Archives: tennis

Light Verse Honoring Wimbledon Finalists

By Robin Bates | Published: July 6, 2013

A new “Sports Poem” blog features lyrics about tennis players Murray, Djokovic, and del Potro.

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Fed’s Little Cat Feet, Rafa’s Bullish Force

By Robin Bates | Published: June 29, 2013

The Federer and Nadal era may be over. Here they are described in Flaubert, James Patterson, and Carl Sandburg terms.

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Poetic Excuses for Losing at Tennis

By Robin Bates | Published: March 16, 2013

Between the motion and the act of my tennis game falls the shadow. Translation: too much thinking.

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Murray and Serena, Unapologetic Power

By Robin Bates | Published: September 10, 2012

Andy Murray and Serena Williams were warriors as they won the U.S. Open, bringing to mind poems by Robert Burns and Tony Hoagland.

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A New York Tennis Poem

By Robin Bates | Published: August 25, 2012

Caleb Gardner’s subtle but poignant tennis poem is about more than tennis.

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Tennis Playing–and Writing–at Its Finest

By Robin Bates | Published: July 21, 2012

David Foster Wallace’s ode to Roger Federer comes the closest to capturing his beautiful game.

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Federer: Floating Butterfly, Stinging Bee

By Robin Bates | Published: July 9, 2012

In the immortal words of Muhammad Ali, Roger Federer floated like a butterfly, stung like a bee as he won his 7th Wimbledon title yesterday.

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Tennis: Understand Your Desire to Win

By Robin Bates | Published: June 9, 2012

Robert Pinsky has written a tennis poem that dispenses useful advice.

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Fed, Rafa, Djoker–A Sibling Drama

By Robin Bates | Published: September 19, 2011

Federer, Nadal, and Djokovic are like the brothers in a Dostoevsky novel or a Grimm Brothers fairy tale: the two older brothers focus on each other and then the unassuming younger brother comes in and takes over.

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