Looking at an exciting Friday in Cincy with Fish vs. Murray, Roddick vs. Djokovic, Federer vs. Davydenko and Nadal vs. Baghdatis in the quarterfinals. Murray, Nadal, Davydenko and Roddick all survived tough three set matches on Thursday while Fed has played a grand total of 37 minutes this week, with a retirement vs. Istomin in [...]

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 [...]

What do you do when you go out early at Wimbledon? Ibiza… on a boat… with bikini clad babes, of course. I”M ON A BOAT! Enjoy. Source: X17online.com via GreatTennisPhotos

Photo by Marianne Bevis London based writer and tennis fan, Marianne Bevis, generously offered to share her impressions of this week’s Queens Club tournament with GTT readers. She braved rainy weather on Tuesday, catching Novak Djokovic, Andy Roddick, and hall of fame tennis hunk, Feliciano Lopez, on the practice courts. Thanks to Marianne for her [...]

Feliciano Lopez is playing doubles this week in Madrid with fellow Spanish heart throb Fernando Verdasco. He also partnered up with supermodel Bar Refaeli (a.k.a. Leonardo DeCaprio’s sometime squeeze) on the red carpet on Tuesday. It suddenly dawns on him: “Am I out of my league?” “Maybe if I look like I’m too cool to [...]

I hear Gulbis is entertaining a la Safin in his press conferences this week. Take this snippet after beating Volandri on Thursday (via tournament website): Gulbis cannot win a match at the moment without being asked about his misspent youth – that lost 2009 season when he spent more time off court than on. This [...]

Thank you Doubles Superstar Mahesh Bhupathi for giving us all a sneak peek (via Twitter) of this year’s annual ATP players’ revue in Monte Carlo – where the ATP gets seriously silly. It’s like a high school talent show meets frat boy kegger meets Shakespeare theater before actresses were allowed on stage. Good thing the [...]

Not a title you see everyday at ATP.com: “Kim Kardashian Feature”! Even if you think this is completely dumb, you can still enjoy the ATP narrator’s ironic tone as he runs through Kardashian’s resume. Also, I enjoy thinking about the PR people’s decision to plant her at F-Lo and Nando’s match. “She won’t even have [...]

The buddy system was in play on Sunday at Indian Wells, when Rafael Nadal and his good pal/sometime doubles partner Marc Lopez beat the third seeded doubles team of Lukas Dlouhy and Leander Paes in the first round. Once again, the visiting martians hovering over the Indian Wells Tennis Garden would be forgiven for thinking [...]

Besides the Fed Cup diaspora, last week’s tennis action included three ATP 250 tournaments on three different continents. (And Major League Baseball’s “World Series” includes just Canada and the U.S.A? Pffft!) Marin Cilic won his fifth career title at the PBZ Zagreb Indoors in Croatia on Sunday, beating Michael Berrer 6-4, 6-7(5), 6-3. He’s now [...]

Feliciano Lopez cuddling a lion cub? If he still had the long locks, it would be a Harlequin Romance cover come to life! He visited The Lion Park in Gauteng Province, South Africa, on Sunday, home to “over 80 lions, including the rare white lion and many other wildlife, including cheetah, wild dog, hyena, jackal, [...]

Photo by Miquel Benitez/Getty Images via Daylife Two things we know without a doubt about the Spanish Davis Cup Team: They’re unbeatable at home (final score after Sunday’s dead rubber play: 5-0, Spain.) The U.N. is holding the team in a bomb shelter, in the event a nuclear apocalypse necessitates that a few choice human [...]