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What is tennis' place in America today?

By Greg Garber
ESPN.com

Friday, August 14, 2009

The epitaph was written 15 years ago, on the May 9, 1994, cover of Sports Illustrated. Against a backdrop of red clay, the bold headline asked: "Is Tennis Dying?" A yellow tennis ball punctuated the damning rhetorical question. "Tennis is spoiled rotten," Sally Jenkins' piece began. "If you are wondering exactly when a wonderful game became such a lousy sport, the answer is, the first time a corporate executive gave a 14-year-old a stretch limo to play with." In retrospect, the ...

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