Tennis Week article on Isner and Jaeger using Prince O3

  •  01-11-2008, 3:43 PM

    Tennis Week article on Isner and Jaeger using Prince O3

    I tried directing a letter to Tennis Week about what appears to be a paid marketing piece that Tennis Week claims to have written, but the feedback links and e-mail address to editorial on Contact Us page on this site do not work.

    Here is the letter:  

     Dear Mr. Pagliaro,

    While I have generally had much respect for Tennis Week and it's solid coverage of tennis events and good feature articles, I was disappointed to see what appears to be marketing piece found at your Web site that claims to have been written by Tennis Week. See the link with the article below about Isner and Jankovic both using Prince O3's...

    http://www.tennisweek.com/news/fullstory.sps?inewsid=522183

    If there really is science behind why it's "remarkable" that a tall and short player would use the same racquet (...versus what racquet simply feels best no matter the body type...), why not invest the time of Tennis Week into writing that article instead of what appears to be a PR piece about Prince racquets. Was this article paid for? And regardless of height, both Isner and Jankovic are baseline players with similar ball-striking technique. However, there was no further analysis or unbias discussion to be found in this article.

    Once again, I am very disappointed with Tennis Week for putting your name to what appears is a paid marketing piece. Please stay true to your readers if you want to keep them. Thank you for your time.

    Sincerely,
    Hugh Spain
    (An occasional reader over the past 10 years)
     

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