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Thomas R. Perrotta (born August 13, 1961) is an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his novels Election (1998) and Little Children (2004), both of which were made into critically acclaimed, Golden Globe-nominated films. Perrotta co-wrote the screenplay for the 2006 film version of Little Children with Todd Field, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Will the first quarter of the tennis season in the books, it's time to look ahead to the rest of the year. Let us know what you think by answering these questions (my answers are below).
1. Rafael Nadal won the first major of the year and strengthened ...
From TOM PERROTTA, TENNIS.COM,
ESPN,
8 Apr 2009
It's been a rough couple of weeks for the WTA Tour. Maria Sharapova is recovering slowly from shoulder surgery and remains on the sideline. The Indian Wells tournament lacked buzz on the women's side, largely because the Williams sisters do not play ...
From TOM PERROTTA, TENNIS.COM,
ESPN,
26 Mar 2009
It's been a political, and difficult, week in the world of tennis. First, the United Arab Emirates denied a visa to Shahar Peer, an Israeli who had hoped to play in Dubai this week. Then the UAE, which has no diplomatic relations with Israel, seemed on ...
From TOM PERROTTA, TENNIS.COM,
ESPN,
20 Feb 2009
Perhaps you're not the biggest fan of Maria Sharapova. Her game lacks variety, you say, and she isn't exactly graceful. You think she plays too slowly, that she has no touch, no subtlety and, worst of all, no regard for your eardrums. These are all ...
From TOM PERROTTA, TENNIS.COM,
ESPN,
11 Feb 2009
According to my own highly unscientific survey, just about everybody loves Kate Winslet. Actually, it wasn’t a survey at all, just me going about my business around the time that Winslet starred in “Little Children,” Todd Field’s film adaptation of my ...
Before I board the plane for the long, long trip to Melbourne, here are five things I'll be looking for Down Under.
1. A first-time winner. A woman who has never won the Australian Open will win it for the first time this year. That woman? Venus ...
From TOM PERROTTA, TENNIS.COM,
ESPN,
14 Jan 2009
Economists can't say for sure whether there are values to be found in the beaten-down U.S. stock market now that we are officially one year into a recession. Thankfully, the performance of tennis players doesn't depend on credit-default swaps or ...
From TOM PERROTTA, TENNIS.COM,
ESPN,
10 Dec 2008
For years, many of us who write about tennis have asked officials at the WTA Tour, "Why don't you have any stats about your players?" Tennis is not baseball; data doesn't reveal as many of the game's secrets, or the habits of its players, largely ...
From TOM PERROTTA, TENNIS.COM,
ESPN,
12 Nov 2008
The day before Ana Ivanovic lost her second-round match at the U.S. Open, her part-time coach, Sven Groeneveld, wasn't particularly hopeful about his pupil's chances in Flushing. Ivanovic had missed most of the summer, including the Olympic Games in ...
From TOM PERROTTA, TENNIS.COM,
ESPN,
29 Oct 2008
In the weeks since Sarah Palin made her entertaining and highly polarizing entrance onto the national stage, journalists have been scrambling to get a fix on her, attaching label after label onto the Alaska governor in the hope that one of them might ...
From TOM PERROTTA,
Slate,
26 Sep 2008
