Sergio Tacchini confirms what many of us already suspected: Novak Djokovic is H-O-T.

Why yes, Robin Soderling qualifies as a Tennis Hunk, in that pasty-faced Northern European kind of way.
Speaking of. . .here’s Andy Murray!

And bona fide Hunk Feliciano Lopez, looking more funky than hunky. (He was practicing with Murray today.)

Yes, you are too sexy for that shirt. . .photo by REUTERS/Mick Tsikas via Daylife
Well, we have the latest crop of weekend winners, (almost) the last before the Australian Open starts on Monday. Winning a warm up the weekend before a major is tricky – it gives a player loads of confidence but can be [...]

Yay! My first player party video post of 2010! I won’t say much about the Sydney soiree for the Medibank International, except that there are a few too many pervy camera pans and Tomas Berdych has good hair.

Oh, and Sabine Lisicki radiates loveliness! And where’s Dinara? The song’s lyrics are weird in the context of [...]

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. . .if you’re a tennis player fighting a doping charge. Richard Gasquet was vindicated today by the Court of Arbitration of Sport, the tribunal throwing out a joint ITF/WADA appeal of the original tribunal’s decision to accept Gasquet’s “I kissed a girl” excuse.
Some excerpts from the CAS [...]

Richard Gasquet appeared before the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Switzerland on Tuesday to defend his contaminated-by-a-cocaine-kiss excuse before a panel of lawyers. The World Anti Doping Agency and the International Tennis Federation are appealing an independent tribunal’s decision that allowed Gasquet to return to tennis after being side-lined for just 2 1/2 months [...]

What’s coming out of the taps in Basel? Whether it’s Lindt chocolate or clean, crisp natural spring water, we have three Swiss players into the Basel quarterfinals on Friday. The last and only other time Basel saw three Swiss in the quarterfinals was eight years ago, when Federer, George Bastl and Michel Kratochvil made it [...]

Today is Martina Hingis’s 29th birthday and the last day of her two-year drug suspension. Jon Wertheim has an interesting interview with her posted on the Sports Illustrated website. Click here to read it if you haven’t already (yes, she answers the comeback question.)
Here’s what really got to me:
The amount (of cocaine metabolite found in [...]

Rafael Nadal plays Richard Gasquet in a tough first round match at the US Open. If you’re nervous about Rafa’s chances, his comments from today’s press conference should make you feel better:
Q. How are your knees feeling? How are you more generally physically? Are there any other problems you’re dealing with?
RAFAEL NADAL: Hopefully not, no. [...]

Sunday was Practice Day at the US Open, which gave fans the opportunity to watch the pros prep for the big tournament. Some of the top stars practiced out-of-view on Arthur Ashe, but there was still plenty to gawk at on the side courts.
It was especially nice to see Richard Gasquet back on the court [...]

First it was Mariano Puerta’s wife, now it’s “Pamela,” Gasquet’s one-night-fling. Why are we ladies always blamed for besmirching the honor of the ATP?
Tennis.com’s Peter Bodo shared the full ITF report from Richard Gasquet’s anti-doping tribunal. Long story short, the tribunal said Gasquet’s cocaine use “occurred in circumstances in which the degree of his [...]

Richard Gasquet has been given “time served” for testing positive for cocaine in March, and is free to return to tour immediately.
From the AFP this morning:
PARIS (AFP) — France’s Richard Gasquet, who tested positive for cocaine during the Miami Masters in March, was handed a two-and-a-half month suspension on Wednesday, the International Tennis Federation (ITF) [...]

Tennis player Mathieu Montcourt, ranked # 119, was found dead outside his Paris apartment at about 1:00 a.m. Tuesday morning. Preliminary autopsy reports show that the 24-year-old player suffered a cardiac arrest. Further tests for any drugs or medicines in Montcourt’s body have been carried out, with results expected this weekend. (via Reuters.)
His colleague Rafael [...]