Behold, this weekend’s champions. For the first time in the 84-year history of what is now known as the Farmers Classic in Los Angeles, both the singles (Querrey) and doubles (Bryan Bros) champions were successful in defending their titles. Sam Querrey beat Andy Murray 5-7, 7-6, 6-3 in Sunday’s final. He saved a match point [...]

Like that old saw about happy hour – it’s always the clay court season somewhere. The tours rolled on the red stuff this past week, crowning four singles champions. It was a bad luck for the hometown hopes – all three players playing in the final of their home country’s tournaments lost. Hungarian player Agnes [...]

Just a quick wrap today: Justine Henin was defeated on the terre battue of Roland Garros for the first time since 2004 on Monday, falling in three sets to Sam Stosur: 2-6, 6-1, 4-6. “I just wanted so much that the adventure could keep going,” Justine said afterwards, though she insisted that her loss was [...]

Miami’s Sony Ericsson Open Kick-Off Party on Tuesday night featured ATP and WTA stars and the music of Pharrell Williams and N.E.R.D. Let’s take a look. Or maybe not! Ack! Caroline! If Agnieszka is really such a great friend of yours, how could she let you leave the hotel in that dress? Flashback!!!! (Not Caro’s [...]

Indian Wells is getting woozy. Big wins, puzzling losses, falling seeds, big match hangovers. Makes me glad I’m not a betting woman. Here’s a quick report on Wednesday’s action at Indian Wells. Grrr. Marcos Baghdatis failed to follow up his career best win over Roger Federer, losing to Tommy Robredo 5-7, 6-0, 4-6 in his [...]

Let’s start with the obvious: Scary good and Especially Relentless against Stosur Everyone else (including Justine) has No chance to win the Australian Open AND: Free to Experiment with his plan D Even Hewitt Realized that the match was an Entertaining Recreation for Roger Disagree? Consider this an acrostic smack down. Roger Federer probably won’t [...]

Sveta played a late night match on Friday, getting past Angelique Kerber in three close sets. Gotta love that game face. . . Now onto Day Six Down Under, which was notable for retirements, withdrawals and old fashioned beat-downs. The men didn’t get to four-sets until Tsonga and Haas played the last match on Hisense. [...]

REUTERS/Shaun Best (UNITED STATES SPORT TENNIS) via Daylife I missed most of Sunday’s Rafael Nadal vs. Nicolas Almagro match due to air travel, but my mom gave me the update when I landed: Rafael Nadal took his shirt off and the crowd went wild! And he blushed and said he was “shy” when Mary Joe [...]

Spaniards Rafael Nadal, Fernando Verdasco and Tommy Robredo all won their third round match ups Thursday at the Barcelona Open. Take a look at the highlights, above. All four of the top seeds will advance, with Friday’s quarterfinals as follows: Nikolay Davydenko (3) vs. Radek Stepanek (Czech leads head-to-head 4-3), David Ferrer (4) vs. Tommy [...]

Venus Williams, Nicolas Almagro and Mardy Fish joined Dubai champ Novak Djokovic in the winners’ circle this weekend. Mardy Fish won his third career title today in Delray Beach over qualifier Evgeny “Kournikova’s cousin” Korolev, who was in his first ATP final. This was a MUST win title for Mardy, considering the inexperience of his [...]