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 [...]

The ATP’s calendar was the hot topic in the Shanghai Masters press room last week, but there were plenty of other interesting exchanges, covering everything from sex, sports cars and when the heck a Frenchman will ever win a major. Before it’s old news, I thought I’d post some of my favorites:
Novak Djokovic on sex [...]

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!

Novak Djokovic and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga were the ATP’s champs this weekend, with wins at the China and Japan Opens, respectively. Here are some video highlights and post match interviews from the finals.
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga beat Mikhail Youzhny in just over an hour in Tokyo:

An interview with a happy Jo-Dubs:

Novak Djokovic beat Marin Cilic 6-2. 7-6 (4) [...]

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga won the Japan Open title on Sunday, beating Mikhail Youzhny 6-3, 6-3 in just over an hour. It wasn’t the most dramatic match, but it’s always nice to see the top seed make good, especially when that top seed is the gallant Jo-Wilfried. And we were treated to a snazzy trophy, too – [...]

World No. 15, Marin Cilic, steamrolled Rafael Nadal in Beijing, winning 6-1, 6-3. Here’s an interesting post-match comment from Rafa:
“I can accept to win and I can accept to lose but mentally probably I wasn’t there. If you’re losing 6-1, 6-3 then there’s something wrong.”
It is very rare for Rafa not to be “there” in [...]

Steve Tignor wrote an interesting viewpoint piece at tennis.com with the title “Excessive civility muting the men’s game?”
Have you read it already? If not, click here. If you have, can you please explain it to me? Here’s what I’ve figured so far. . .
Tignor begins by comparing two US Open semifinal handshakes – this year’s [...]

Roger Federer beat Novak Djokovic in Sunday’s US Open semifinals: 7-6, 7-5, 7-5. It was a fairly straightforward match, but Federer pulled out some magic in the last game, breaking Nole’s serve with the help of this fantastic trick shot:

Roger Federer plays Juan Martin Del Potro on Monday afternoon for the US Open title. He’s [...]

Whoa, Roger Federer almost needed 5 sets to get past Robin Soderling on Wednesday night!  Fed already had the first two in the bag, 6-0, 6-3, when, suddenly, Soderling went bombs away. The next two sets  went to tiebreaks, with Soderling up 6 points to 5 in the final breaker before Fed squeaked by. A [...]

So Roger Federer played second fiddle today, taking the court against Tommy Robredo after Melanie Oudin’s big win over Nadia Petrova. He did his best to wow the crowd in his own way, coming back from a tight first set to dominate the Spaniard in vintage Fed style: 7-5, 6-2, 6-2.
I loved what Roger had [...]

Novak Djokovic was in the mood for more tennis after dominating Radek Stepanek 6-1, 6-3, 6-3, in the Round of 16 at the US Open on Monday night.  After his new coach, Todd Martin, turned him down, he went for the sure thing and asked John McEnroe to come down from the ESPN broadcast booth [...]

I blame the waffle fries. Or maybe it’s the chicken fingers. Something made the top contenders queasy this Saturday at the US Open.
Maria Sharapova lost to Melanie Oudin. Oudin was supposed to have used up her underdog mojo when she beat 4th seeded Elena Dementieva in the second round. The 17 year old from Georgia [...]