Looking Forward

After this weekend's ATP Championships, all regular season tennis has come to an end. The year-end victors have been crowned and it's time for the tennis world's stars to hang up their rackets for some much deserved rest.

But as the athletes settle down, Tennis.com must rev up. For the next two months news will be minimal and the website's writers must find a way to keep readers interested until the start of next year's season. What's a better way to do that than to look to the future?

Is it already time for French Open tickets?

Tennis.com has begun what will become a steady flow of  predictions and player analyses for 2012. Will Djokovic rekindle the fire that earned him a record breaking 2011? Will Wozniacki finally win her maiden slam? (lol). And what will come of the Williams sisters?

While I enjoy speculation, I'm hoping the seasoned editors of Tennis.com have something new up their sleeves. It's fun to read what Bodo and Tignor think will happen to the tennis world giants, but all the writing really becomes is hearsay and editorial banter.

Instead of looking forward, I'd like some more looking back. Not necessarily on 2011, because we've been hammered with highlights for 11 months now, but what about comparisons of this season to the past? What about some classic highlights from the days of Sampras or Graf? Mix it up, keep me on my toes, and make me want to check the website more than once a week.

If not, I'll get my tennis fix from twitter. The players have proven to be pretty funny lately.