Feb 12THE KAZAKH PHENOMENONTHE AUSTRALIAN OPEN FINAL PIT A BELARUSIAN AGAINST A KAZAKH IN NAME ONLY,EITHER WAY, RUSSIA CAME OUT ON TOP By Adrian Margaret BruneTennis8 min readTennis8 min read
Feb 12The shock and awe-inspiring art of IraqAfter decades of disorder, the country has a budding art scene January 25, 2023 | 1:50 pm FROM THE MAGAZINEIraq11 min readIraq11 min read
Feb 5NICK BOLLETTIERI: A HUCKSTER WHO KNEW NOTHING ABOUT TENNIS REINVENTED TENNIS TRAININGA Courts Magazine Obituary Adrian Brune 17 December, 2022Tennis8 min readTennis8 min read
Feb 5THE MYSTERIOUS CASE OF JOHN ARBANAS, THE 1991 AUSTRALIAN OPEN AND TENNIS JOURNEYMENHOW DID A NO-NAME, NO-RANKED CLUB PLAYER SWEEP AO QUALIFYING INTO THE MAIN DRAW ?AND COULD IT EVER HAPPEN AGAIN? Adrian Brune 27 January, 2003 The Baseline Report has been officially folded into Courts Club a newsletter about the clash of tennis and culture around the world. Topics will vary, from The Ultimate Demise of the East River Courts, about which I wrote in November to the new Stan Smith…Tennis8 min readTennis8 min read
Feb 4THE ULTIMATE DEMISE OF NEW YORK’S EAST RIVER COURTS?BUILT ON A NEW YORK ‘FLOOD PLAIN’ THE COURTS WILL LEAVE TENNIS LOVING NEW YORKERS DRY FOR AT LEAST FOUR YEARS By Adrian Margaret Brune Adrian Brune 20 September, 2022East River6 min readEast River6 min read
Feb 4Officials are People, Too…They shared the same hopes, dreams and even training of pro tennis players. If only the players realised that. Adrian Brune Aug 28, 2022 ITF umpire Carlos Ramos during the infamous 2018 U.S. Open final debating Serena Williams about being coached from the sidelines. With the fortnight at the U.S. Open upon us, the world is reminiscing about and paying tribute to Serena Williams. Rightly so, as the girl…Tennis10 min readTennis10 min read
Jun 29, 2022Tennis Fashion Firsts for Summer 2022Venus may seem to have started the trend with Eleven, but from Ultimate Penguin to Hugo Boss and even Ostapenko’s Latvian brand DK One, fashion is embracing tennis In 1923, French David Cup player Rene Lacoste just so happened to be admiring a crocodile leather suitcase when his coach, Allan Muhr, told him that if he won his next match, the case would belong to Lacoste. Lacoste lost, but the nickname“crocodile” stuck. Lacoste even promoted it, asking his…Fashion6 min readFashion6 min read
Jun 29, 2022Introducing Letter from London…Americans think we speak the same language as the English. We don’t. Dear friends and fellow countrymen, We had toyed with the notion, my English girlfriend and I, every now and again, of pulling stakes and moving to her native country. Some day. One of these years. But while I had been living in New York for 20 years and had grown…England5 min readEngland5 min read
Jun 29, 2022Football Season?I used to think American football fans were crazy; then I met the real football fans. Dear friends and fellow countrymen, It’s now late-September and I imagine that walking up Third Avenue from Midtown to the Upper East Side, I would see all manner of inflatable men in blue or green helmets (Jets or Giants) carrying oval-shaped brown balls. Many of these Sunday afternoons, I would…Soccer6 min readSoccer6 min read
Jun 29, 2022The Famous Cock… and Other Pub NamesBoston’s Bell in Hand made zero sense. London tops it. Dear friends and fellow countrymen, By now you and all of England have finished your New Year’s Eve binges, suffered through the hangover and are well into “dry January”, which could possibly last through the NFL playoffs, but doubtfully endure the SuperBowl on 15 February. If you’ve made it to…Pubs And Bars7 min readPubs And Bars7 min read
