You may be wondering...

There may be a series of thoughts running through your mind as you contemplate reading my tennis musings.

1. Who are you?
2. Why should I listen to you?
3. Why do you care?
4. Why the 2000's?

And the following would be your answers.

1. My name is Kenan Wallace. I'm a 21 year old Sport and Exercise Science student. Of course, this doesn't define who I am, but we don't have all day, do we?
2. You may be tempted to listen and even better still, believe what I tell you after learning some of the following very questionable credentials: I've been involved in tennis in one way or another since the beginning of last decade. Growing up, I found myself involved in multiple different sports with varying degrees of passion, dedication and enthusiasm. Football was the first to seriously catch my attention. For many years I partook in a sport which I believed would stay with me for the rest of my life, that I could enjoy in my free time and possibly win a background career out of. Without going into too much depth, it didn't happen. One day years of indulging in football had come to a halt and surprisingly without much easing off required. The reason was my discovery of tennis. My passion for tennis doesn't stem from my fondness of a particular player, in which my judgement of the sport is clouded with bias but for the love of the sport itself, or the way it once was and still should be. Tennis used to be a sport with many variables, intrinsic and extrinsic. I take the sport for what it once was and my best interests are only held within furthering the sport itself. 
3. I don't have an answer to this. When one has a passion, I believe that in most instances, it cannot be forced upon but only discovered and then developed.  
4. I believe the early 2000's, along with the majority of the 1990's, is the finest era in men's tennis history. Varying court surfaces which only encouraged a variety of different styles, unpredictability within tournaments, Masters Series tournaments holding a high degree of prestige and a regular tussle at the top for the coveted World Number 1 spot as well as great depth, with excellent players sitting outside the world's top 50.