A busy, surprising and hot, hot, hot day (and night) in NYC on Wednesday. Take this, for example: Pre-tournament favorite and No. 10 seed Victoria Azarenka suffered the second Major retirement of her career on Wednesday at the US Open (she retired against Serena Williams at the 2009 Australian Open), literally falling to Gisela Dulko [...]

France took out defending champ Spain in Davis Cup action on Saturday. The team of Llodra/Benneteau beat Lopez/Verdasco 6-1, 6-2, 6-7(6), 7-6(5), posting an insurmountable 3-0 lead for Team France. “Even if I am 30 years, I like this kind of match,” said Llodra, who also upset Verdasco in Monday’s singles rubber. “Amazing. We play [...]

Friday was an exciting and surprising first day of Davis Cup quarterfinal action. Let’s take a look. France leads Spain: 2-0 in France Wha? Michael Llodra, bluntly described as France’s “oldest and lowest ranked player” on the Davis Cup website, took out World No. 10 Fernando Verdasco on Friday in four sets. It was the [...]

The 2010 Davis Cup quarterfinals are here, less than a week after the Wimbledon finals. Who is ready to fight on? SPAIN VS. FRANCE: Wimby champ Rafael Nadal has pulled from the anticipated Spain vs. France quarterfinal in Clermont-Ferrand, France, to rest his knees. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga is also out with a knee injury. As the [...]

Things are getting stormy for the top players at Queen’s Club. Rafael Nadal needed three sets, almost four hours on court and a three minute injury time out to get past world No. 76 Uzbek Dennis Istomin on Thursday: 7-6 (7-4), 4-6, 6-4. Things looked particularly bad for Rafa after the second set, as he [...]

REUTERS/Marcos Brindicci via Daylife If the tennis season revolved around February’s South American clay court circuit, 30-year-old Juan Carlos Ferrero would be its Roger Federer. He beat Davis Cup teammate David Ferrer in three sets in Sunday’s Copa Telmex final in Buenos Aires, making it his ninth straight match victory and second title in as [...]

Michael Llodra’s scary collision into the chair umpire’s stand today at Wimbledon was freakishly unfortunate. Michael had to retire from his 2nd round match against Tommy Haas, but at least the ball girl seemed okay. Was anyone else thinking, “Wait, isn’t that the kind of thing that usually happens to Tommy Haas?” Maybe the Tennis [...]

Hi all! We’ve arrived in the land of golf visors and prime rib specials and are looking forward to a spectacular day of tennis at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden. Which means that we won’t be watching Federer vs. Giquel in the vertigo-inducing main stadium, but hanging out at the side courts watching the supporting [...]

Tennis dreams do come true! I was starting to despair, given Roger Federer’s loss in Australia, but sometimes it’s the small things – like a Tsonga vs. Llodra final – that make me believe again. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga beat Novak Djokovic in the Marseille semis today: 6-4, 7-6 (1). Yes, Tsonga won that final tie break [...]