(Well, they certainly look trust-worthy.)
Depending on which one you talk to, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal are either embroiled in a battle for the year ending No. 1 (Federer) or just in London to have some fun (Nadal). Fibs or frankness? You decide.
Here’s Federer talking to reporters during the World Tour Finals Media Day [...]

This is all kinds of awesome! Roger Federer submits to a fit of giggles while being interviewed by CNN in Switzerland last week:

If Roger wasn’t so adamantly pro-WADA, I’d swear. . .

Yes! The ATP World Tour Finals can’t start before the requisite Men in Suits photo session. Along with the British press, another overlooked benefit of hosting the ATP World Tour Finals in London is seeing Federer, Nadal and the rest of the top guys in bespoke tailoring (at least I’ll pretend it is.) Here are [...]

Here is a sampling of sites offering live online streaming of the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals in London.
The tournament runs from Sunday, November 22 – Sunday November 29. Generally, the day matches start at 12:30pm GMT/7:30am EST and evening matches begin at 7:00pm GMT/2:00pm EST.
Click here to visit the World Tour Finals website. Click [...]

Roger Federer was interviewed by CNN in anticipation of next week’s ATP World Tour Finals. He chats about the twins, his rivalry with Rafael Nadal and Andre Agassi’s recent drug-related confessions. I love Roger’s Scooby Doo imitation at the start: “Whuhhhhh?”

Thanks, Rog, for giving us the image of Mirka dashing around in the middle of [...]

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The AP reports that Sam “Samurai” Querrey returned to the practice courts last week after a freak accident at September’s Thailand Open came close to ending his tennis career. The 6′6″ American fell through a glass table in the tournament’s locker room while sitting on it to tie his shoes. A shard of [...]

As the first round of news stories rolls in in anticipation of next week’s ATP World Tour Finals, I’m realizing that there’s a hidden bonus to staging the event in London: the British press! And as with any tournament that pits Great British Hope Andy Murray vs. the Great-White-Chocolate-Loving Roger Federer, the U.K. papers have [...]

The United States Tennis Association (USTA) and Tennis Industry Association (TIA) announced today that U.S. tennis participation is the highest it’s been in 25 years, with over thirty-million Americans hitting the courts in 2009. This is a whopping 12% increase vs. 2008 and a 25% improvement since 2003 (the year Roger Federer won his first [...]

Photo via www.tennis-russia.ru
There are so many talented tennis players in Russia, that the country has its own awards ceremony to honor them. Last night’s Russian Cup awards, hosted by Anastasia Myskina at Moscow’s Radisson Slavyanskaya hotel, honored Nikolay Davydenko as Tennis Player of the Year (for being the top male Russian player for the 5th [...]

In disappointing news for tennis fans everywhere, the London Times is reporting that Andy Roddick has withdrawn from the ATP’s year-ending championships in London next week:
The American world No.6 has withdrawn from the eight-man extravaganza – which starts on Sunday at the 02 Arena in south-east London – having been unable to overcome [...]

I love this video interview of Marat Safin, speaking in Paris after losing the last match of his career to Juan Martin del Potro. He says he realized during that match that he has a terrible forehand and maybe should have worked on it at some point during his career. I’m assuming he’s joking, but [...]

Rafael Nadal is still within striking distance of the year end No. 1 ranking (an honor that’s confusingly named the “2009 ATP World Tour Champion”), depending on how both he and Roger Federer perform at the World Tour Finals next week in London. The ATP provides Rafa’s plan of attack for the potential Battle for [...]