I just can’t get closure on a tournament until I see the player party video, can you? Here’s the party in Doha. I love Wozniacki’s “brainless ball basher” vs. “pusher” analysis of her match vs. Azarenka!

Also, I didn’t realize Jelena Jankovic was a budding fashion designer. I propose that Serena and J.J. design the evening [...]

The ATP’s latest “Uncovered” features Marian Vajda, Novak Djokovic’s coach and “second father.”

Perhaps the deep personal bond between the two explains why Marian is comfortable sharing coaching duties with Todd Martin, who joined Team Djokovic around the time of this year’s US Open.
Novak spoke recently about how the Vajda/Martin tag-team works (Quotes via The Independent):
“He [...]

James Blake Uncovered? In some ways, he really has been covered enough (click here for his hilarious “interview” with Stephen Colbert). But it’s nice to hear him talk about the experiences tennis has given to him – although I can hear the “James Blake is too satisfied with what he’s accomplished and not hungry enough” [...]

Marat Safin and Teimuraz Gabashvili visited an orphanage in St. Petersburg while in town for the St. Petersburg Open. Listen carefully, gals, Marat has a message for you:

Hear that? Marat says retirement will give him plenty of time to find the right woman and make babies. Single ladies, renew those passports!
Oh, and of course it’s [...]

Too cute for words. And you really can try to pick up more tennis balls than Rafa – click here for the details.
I think there should be one of Roger running around for an hour and then showing off his camera ready-hair (yeah, no contest.)

GTT buddy Lorrie sent us these links to Marat Safin’s last press conference at the Kremlin Cup this week (after beating Nikolay Davydenko, Marat went out to Korolev in the second round.) The video is in Russian (non-Russian speakers will enjoy casting Safin into their fantasy James Bond film) but the English transcript shows Marat [...]

I love Ivan LJubicic. I love him for being an old dude in a sport of boys. I love his big bald head. I love his intelligence. I love his one handed backhand. I love that he doesn’t suffer fools. I just love him! Enjoy:

Ivan was ranked as high as #3 in the world back [...]

Tennis chair umpires Gerry Armstrong and Carlos Bernardes share their thoughts on the game and their roles in it:

Nice stuff, but where’s Mohamed Lahyani? Maybe he’s getting his very own ATP feature sometime soon. . .I’m hoping for a weekly series.

Nikolay Davydenko beat Rafael Nadal 7-6 (3), 6-3 on Sunday for the title at the Shanghai Masters. Here are the highlights :

I love listening to the crowd’s reactions to every winner!
And here’s Davydenko’s post-match interview:

“It was no plan, it just was fighting!”
And of course, this was another highlight of the match – his wife’s [...]

We can dream, can’t we? Tennis Night in America!

It’s tennis night every night at my house!
Big thanks to henryortiz85 for the link
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An HILARIOUS video featuring James Blake and everyone’s favorite faux Talking Head, Stephen Colbert. There is just too much funny for me to even describe. So go ahead and watch it (sorry, it has nothing to do with the ATP’s calendar – hope you aren’t too disappointed!)

The Colbert Report
Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c

Fallback Position [...]

The players partied on the helipad of the Shanghai Hilton to celebrate this week’s Masters tournament. They managed not to look too grumpy, and Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal even dressed up a little:

Marat, do you really want to wrap up your final season wearing plaid flannels? Come on now:

That’s more like it!