One of the biggest tennis media outlets in America appears to have gone belly up.
Tennis.com has no new content on it’s site right now, only professional match scores.
It’s possible that the site is undergoing a redesign however it’s also plausible the big budget operation with a staff of writers and team has become unprofitable.
Not long ago Tennis Magazine and it’s web site was a major league operation with many marquee names involved in it’s content creation. I proudly freelanced many features and interviews to Tennis Mag for about a decade. Right now it’s nothing but a scoreboard. Tennis magazine ceased operations a few years ago and directed all it’s energies and production to the web site.
Today there is an abundance of quality free online information as well as free social media content which may have factored into the demise of a once mighty periodical which entertained and informed millions of readers.
We shall see in the coming days if it’s a temporary glitch before a snazzy re-launch – or the end after about five decades of work, of a tennis media institution.
If it’s the end of Tennis.com, it fulfills soft of, the prophecy a couple of years ago of Reilly Opelka, who famously smashed the tennis media as “awful, the worst” due to lack of quality original creativity, bias and also endless hammering on the same dead topics such as when will American tennis produce the next male Grand Slam champ.
Meanwhile, thanks for supporting www.tennis-prose.com for over a decade and I promise to continue sharing the best content I can produce.
Note: I remember a few years ago a reader commented on an article that he believed this site with just one man at the controls, offered better content than all of Tennis.com. It’s one of the best surprise compliments I ever received in over 30 years in the media. Steve Tignor calling Facing Federer “addictive reading” is up there too )
And I believe Facing Andre Agassi is of equal quality, if I do say so myself )
Thanks again! Mark Scoop Malinowski
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