You gotta love the chatter that follows a Roger Federer loss. Tennis.com has a couple interesting articles analyzing the Federer vs. Baghdatis match at Indian Wells on Tuesday night. Click here for Steve Tignor’s “Federer’s anger proves he still cares.” I like Bodo’s, too, “Hold the Violins!” (click here) a good companion to my “It’s [...]

Pete Sampras has finally reacted to Andre Agassi’s apologetic overtures. Via the LA Times:
Agassi has taken swings at apologizing in several TV interviews since Friday night. Sampras has appreciated that, but dislikes how it feeds the beast and keeps the story alive. Agassi is outgoing, articulate, likely to go for the one-liner. [...]

Nicole Vaidisova, former French Open and Australian Open semifinalist, two-time Wimbledon quarterfinalist and one-time Sharapova-in-waiting, is retiring at the ripe old age of 20. We can only assume she’d rather play house with Radek Stepanek than play tennis. Via tennisreporters.net:
Former world No. 7 and two-time Grand Slam semifinalist Nicole Vaidisova has retired at the [...]

ORDER OF PLAY – WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 2010

ORDER OF PLAY – WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 2010
*All times in PST
STADIUM 1 start 12:00 noon
[5] A Radwanska (POL) vs [4] E Dementieva (RUS) – WTA
[15] J Isner (USA) vs [3] R Nadal (ESP) – ATP
[9] J Tsonga (FRA) vs [6] R Soderling (SWE) – ATP
Not [...]

ORDER OF PLAY – TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 2010
ORDER OF PLAY – TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 2010
*All times PT

STADIUM 1 start 12:00 noon
[4] A Murray (GBR) vs M Russell (USA) – ATP
Not Before 2:00 PM
[16] N Petrova (RUS) vs [2] C Wozniacki (DEN) – WTA
T de Bakker (NED) vs [7] A Roddick (USA) – ATP
Not Before 5:00 [...]

The buddy system was in play on Sunday at Indian Wells, when Rafael Nadal and his good pal/sometime doubles partner Marc Lopez beat the third seeded doubles team of Lukas Dlouhy and Leander Paes in the first round. Once again, the visiting martians hovering over the Indian Wells Tennis Garden would be forgiven for thinking [...]

We caught Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Juan Monaco and Andy Murray going shirtless during practice on Sunday – perfect fodder for our final Tennis Hunks of Indian Wells post of the tournament.
If you missed some of our previous posts, click here for Nadal practice photos, here and here for Roger Federer, here for Djokovic practicing with Verdasco [...]

It’s our last installment of Tennis Babes of Indian Wells (at least with our own photos). Here are some shots of Maria Sharapova, Gisela Dulko, Victoria Azarenka and a U.T.B. Please help us identify this Unidentified Tennis Babe!

ORDER OF PLAY – MONDAY, MARCH 15, 2010

ORDER OF PLAY – MONDAY, MARCH 15, 2010
STADIUM 1 start 12:00 noon
[25] P Kohlschreiber (GER) vs [2] N Djokovic (SRB) – ATP
Not Before 1:00 PM
M Ancic (CRO) vs [3] R Nadal (ESP) – ATP
Not Before 4:00 PM
S Errani (ITA) vs [6] J Jankovic (SRB) – [...]

Saturday was a very busy day at Indian Wells – the sold out day session, the overflow parking situation and the epic bathroom lines were just the start of it. It felt like the entire population of Tennis Landia was trying to get inside Stadium 2 to watch Andy Murray/Ross Hutchins vs. James Blake/Andy Roddick [...]

Roger Federer talks to the ATP about Indian Wells. Interesting stuff from him on being “back on top” of the game and on Rafael Nadal’s recent struggles.

This puts me in the mood for a Nadal vs. Federer final next weekend! Am I going to get my wish?

ORDER OF PLAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 14, 2010

Some really juicy matchups tomorrow and Roger’s first match of the tournament! Stadium 1 seems to have all the huge matchups tomorrow. Really interesting battle of the Stella McCartney Adidas girls! (Kirilenko vs Wozniacki). The Spanish Armada are out enforce in doubles on Sunday. Marc Lopez and Rafa [...]