2006 Backspin Archives

The roll call from a very busy year at Backspin:

>>>DECEMBER 2005<<<
Dec.9-18 - "2006 IQ Links Countdown"
Dec.19 - "2006 Intriguing Question #10" (Hingis)
Dec.20 - "2006 Intriguing Question #9"(Dokic/Capriati/comebacks)
Dec.21 - "2006 Movers & Shakers"
Dec.23 - "2006 Intriguing Question #8" (Mirza)
Dec.24 - "2006 Intriguing Question #7" (Groenefeld)
Dec.25 - "2006 Over/Under"
Dec.25 - "2006 Dumpers & Slumpers"
Dec.27 - "2006 Intriguing Question #6" (Czechs)
Dec.29 - "2006 Intriguing Question #5" (Russians)
Dec.30 - "2006 Intriguing Question #4" (Williams)
Dec.31 - "2006 Intriguing Question #3" (JHH/Clijsters)

>>>JANUARY 2006<<<
Jan.3 - "2006 Intriguing Question #2" (Pierce)
Jan.4 - "2006 Top 10 Predictions"
Jan.7 - "2006 Prediction Avalanche"
Jan. 8 - Week 1 - "Act 1, Scene 1 (2006)" (Safarova)
Jan.9 - "Pierre's Prediction Blowout"
Jan.10 - "2006 Intriguing Question #1" (Vaidisova)
Jan.13 - Week 2 - "Court Royale" (JHH)

January 14-29 - DAILY BACKSPIN - AUSTRALIAN OPEN EDITION
...Preview: "Waltzing Mathilda Oz Preview"
...Day 1: "The House Falls on Venus" (Pironkova/Venus)
...Day 2: "Martina...Grinning Like a Shot Fox" (Hingis)
...Day 3: "Serena & Maria & Laver! Oh My!"
...Day 4: "Mary Melts in Melbourne" (Pierce)
...Day 5: "Toto, I Don't Think Serena's in Oz Anymore"
...Day 6: "Pay No Attention to the Woman in the Tennis Skirt" (Clijsters)
...Day 7: "Amelie or Nicole... for which one will it be apples?"
...Day 8: "The Hydrant Along the Yellow Brick Road" (Vaidisova)
...Day 9: "Petrova... Off to See the Wizard?"
...Day 10: "Surrender Dorothy" (Final 4)
...Day 11: "Over the Rainbow, Under Extreme Conditions" (JHH)
...Day 12: "Sammy Up a Gum Tree" (Stosur)
...Day 13: "Amelie Clicks Her Heels"
...Day 14: "On Ya Mates- Dorothy Tour Awards"

>>>FEBRUARY<<<
Feb.6 - Week 5 - "Punch-Sober Also Rises" (Dementieva)
Feb.13 - Week 6 - "Amelie & the Belgian Offensive" (Mauresmo/JHH)
Feb.20 - Week 7 - "Woman of a Thousand Faces" (Mauresmo)
Feb.27 - Week 8 - "Justine's Port of Call" (JHH)

>>>MARCH<<<
Mar.5 - Week 9 - "Backspin's Girls Make Good" (Petrova/Groenefeld)
Mar.13 - "Non-Sequitur Jubilee"
Mar.20 - Week 10/11 - "A Breeze in the Desert" (Sharapova)
Mar.27 - "The Blessed and the Cursed, 1Q Edition"

>>>APRIL<<<
Apr.3 - Week 12/13 - "Springtime for Sveta" (Kuznetsova)
Apr.4 - "WTA 1Q Awards"
Apr.10 - Week 14 - "Squeaky Scarlett & the Justice League of Mother Russia" (Petrova)
Apr.18 - Week 15 - "Scarlett Fever" (Petrova)
Apr.24 - Week 16 - "Viva Italia!" (Fed Cup 1r)

>>>MAY<<<
May 2 - Week 17 - "$70,067... and the Backspin Awards for April"
May 9 - week 18 - ".now for All - 2nd Annual Backwards Backspin"
May 16 - Week 19 - "And Miles to Go..." (Petrova)
May 22 - Week 20 - "The Martina Code" (Hingis)
May 27 - Week 21 - "She Lives, After All" (Vaidisova)

>>>JUNE<<<
May 27-June 4 - DAILY BACKSPIN - ROLAND GARROS EDITION
...Preview: "History 101, circa 1939"
...Day 1: "Serving Up Empty Calories" (ESPN/Sharapova)
...Day 2: "The Pusillanimous Pigeons of Peril" (Sharapova/Washington)
...Day 3: "If a Russian Loses on the Terre Battue and Nobody is Around to Hear Her Fall, Does She Still Make a Sound?" (Petrova)
...Day 4: "No Pigeons, but a Healthy Helping of French Dressing" (Mauresmo)
...Day 5: "Stump the Softball Lacrosse Bee World Series, and the Plot Against the Navratilovas"
...Day 6: "X-Women: The Next Stand?" (Venus/Sharapova)
...Day 7: "Round of 16 Lists-a-Palooza"
...Day 8: "A Supernovic Stumble & the Birth of a Dynamova" (Sharapova/Vaidisova)
...Day 9: "Eight on the Dirt"
...Day 10: "Vaidisova... ready to boil?"
...Day 11: "Four to Shimmy on Chatrier"
...Day 12: "Down the Line, and Across the Chops" (Vaidisova/JHH)
...Day 13: "The OTHER Final" (JHH/Kuznetsova)
...Day 14: "Restoring Order" (JHH)
...Day 15: "2006 WTA Clay Court Awards"

June 19 - Week 24 - "Vera Z & the Georgia Peach" (Zvonareva/Jackson)
June 24 - Week 25 - "Welcome Back, Petit Taureau" (JHH)

>>>JULY<<<
June 25-July 9 - DAILY BACKSPIN - SW19 EDITION
...Preview: "The Deep End of the Court" (Venus/JHH)
...Day 1: "Rainy Days & Monday"
...Day 2: "A Tale of Two Andres"
...Day 3: "Move Over, Anne White (& Billie Jean, too)?" (Mattek)
...Day 4: "Venus Being Venus, Rafa Being Rafa"
...Day 5: "Sweet 16 Stories, Part I"
...Day 6: "Sweet 16 Stories, Part II"
...Day 7: "Eight Down, Four to Go" (Federer/Nadal)
...Day 8: "A Fittingly Formful & Uneventful Day... almost"
...Day 9: "No Holds Barred"
...Day 10: "Lady Legacy" (JHH/Mauresmo)
...Day 11: "The Best of Both Worlds"
...Day 12: "She is Risen" (Mauresmo)
...Day 13: "Don't Tug on Roger's Cape" (Federer)
...Review: "2006 WTA Grass Court Awards"

July 17 - "The Blessed and the Cursed, 2Q Edition"
July 17 - Week 28 - "Noodle-rific!" (Fed Cup SF)
July 24 - Week 29 - "Le Tour de Zvonareva"
July 31 - Week 30 - "The Return of Killer Kim and Unassailable Anna"

>>>AUGUST<<<
Aug.7 - Week 31 - "The Scenarios Abound" (Sharapova)
Aug.14 - Week 32 - "Soberly Punching Away" (Dementieva)
Aug.21 - Week 33 - "The Shell Game" (US Open contenders)
Aug.26 - Week 34 - "There is an "i" in Justine... thankfully" (JHH)

>>>SEPTEMBER<<<
Aug.26-Sept.10 - DAILY BACKSPIN - U.S. OPEN EDITION
...Preview: "She is History" (Navratilova>
...Day 1: "Kings for a Night" (BJK/Agassi)
...Day 2: "The Rains of August"
...Day 3: "The Little Black Dress" (Sharapova)
...Day 4: La Belle Dame Sans Merci & the Grand Deception" (Sharapova/Hantuchova)
...Day 4.5: "Late Night with Andre" (Agassi)
...Day 5: "Jana Would Be Proud" (Peer/Schiavone)
...Day 6: "Rain Check"
...Day 7: "The Shadowboxer" (S.Williams)
...Day 8: "The Silent Majority" (JHH/Mauresmo)
...Day 9: "The One and Only" (Jankovic)
...Day 10: "You Do the Voodoo That You Do So Well" (Sharapova/Golovin)
...Day 11: "Pick Your Poison"
...Day 12: "Shock & Awesome" (JHH/Sharapova)
...Day 13: "Exquisite in the City" (Sharapova)

Sept.15 - "WTA 3Q Awards"
Sept.18 - Week 37 - "Down Goes Justine... again" (Fed Cup F)
Sept.25 - Week 38 - "That Time of Year" (Paszek)

>>>OCTOBER<<<
Oct.2 - Week 39 - "Anna-way She Goes" (Chakvetadze)
Oct.9 - Week 40 - "Revolving Doors" (Petrova/2007 WTA Guide)
Oct.16 - Week 41 - "The Unbreakable Porcelain Doll" (Chakvetadze)
Oct.20 - "Intriguing Answers: A Swiss Miss, a Near-Miss & a Big Hit" (Hingis/USA/technology)
Oct.23 - Week 42 - "The Supplemental Scenario" (Sharapova)
Oct.28 - "How Smart we Were/How Dumb We Were"
Oct.30 - Week 43 - "It" (Sharapova)

>>>NOVEMBER<<<
Nov.4 - "Intriguing Answers: Maria the Bear"
Nov.6 - Week 44 - "The Curious Case of Kim Clijsters"
Nov.7 - "Intriguing Answers: A Tale of Two Champions" (JHH/Mauresmo)
Nov.11 - "2006 Backspin Awards"
Nov.13 - Week 45 - "A Final Poke in the Eye of Convention" (JHH)
Nov.18 - "Miss Backspin '06" (POY/lists)
Nov.25 - "2006 WTA Yearbook"


All for now.