Tag Archives: Wimbledon

Strong in Will vs. Time & Fate

By Robin Bates | Published: July 19, 2014

Roger Feder, like Tennyson’s “Ulysses,” braved time and fate and came up just short.

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Victorie, No Gory Bed, for Andy

By Robin Bates | Published: July 13, 2013

A Burns poems will serve to honor Andy Murray’s Wimbledon victory while a Susan Bright description of Martina Navratilova applies to woman winner Marion Bartoli.

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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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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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Spain’s Tiger Burning Less Bright

By Robin Bates | Published: July 9, 2011

Did the god that made the elegant strokes of Roger Federer also make the bruising style of Nadal? Like William Blake gazing at the lamb and the tiger in “Tyger, Tyger,” we can only shake our heads bemused.

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Poetry at Wimbledon

By Robin Bates | Published: July 3, 2010

Sports Saturday I’m still trying to process the Ghana and Brazil defeats and will write about the World Cup in the next two Friday posts.  For the moment, I’ll take a breather and turn to tennis. Trust Wimbledon, the classiest of the tennis tournaments, to work poetry into the occasion.  I wrote last year about […]

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Soccer Highs and Lows and a Tennis Epic

By Robin Bates | Published: June 26, 2010

John Isner         Sports Saturday – “It’s incredible!  You could not write a script like this!” So proclaimed the announcer in the U. S. – Algeria World Cup match when Landon Donovan netted a stoppage time goal to avoid elimination and send the Americans forward to the next round. In other words, a sports announcer’s ultimate […]

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