No, these aren’t our photos. We weren’t invited to the Indian Wells Players’ Party, sniff! And good thing we weren’t, because. . .well, we might have said something rude to Ana about her pantyhose. Let’s take a look:
So far, so gorgeous, for Ana Ivanovic!

And then we get to the nurse pantyhose and 80’s secretary pumps. [...]

We can’t get enough of the practice courts (and practice field) at Indian Wells. Gael Monfils, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Robin Soderling, Gilles Simon, the Spanish Armada, Justine Henin and Caroline Wozniacki worked on their strokes and their foot work on Thursday. Anna Chakvetadze looked on while Marcos Baghdatis, Juan Monaco, Gaston Gaudio et. al played a [...]

I guess someone at DavisCup.com understands my love for Jo-Wilfried Tsonga!
The photo:

By Paul Zimmer at DavisCup.com
The caption: “Desire adds to France’s status as favourite”
And Tsonga understands my love for Davis Cup, though he doesn’t understand Davis Cup Dodgers:
“For me it’s difficult to understand all the people who don’t play this competition,” he said. “It’s maybe [...]

Let me assure you that my headline doesn’t refer to the dashing Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, even though Roger did toss the Frenchman out of the Australian Open semifinals like a bag of lawn clippings. The trash I’m referring to is of the verbal variety. It doesn’t stink, but it sure can fester.
Take this snippet from Jo-Wilfried’s [...]

There are two major highlights on Day 12 at the Australian Open: the Williams sisters taking on No. 1 seeded team Cara Black and Liezel Huber in the women’s doubles final and Roger Federer vs. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga at night in the men’s second semifinal.
Question of the Day: Will it be Murray vs. Federer or Murray [...]

Pass the Dramamine! Day 10 at the Australian Open was one wicked ride – the kind you enjoy in hindsight, once your feet are back on terra firma and you’ve emptied your guts into a trash can. (Sorry, Nole fans, I wrote that before he started dry heaving.)
Each of the day session winners lost their [...]

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 have as much fun against Nikolay Davydenko in the quarterfinals. Kolya’s beaten Roger the past two [...]

Kooyong Chaos – doesn’t that sound like the latest trendy cocktail? (Make it a double, barkeep!) But alas, it’s the best way to describe the final days of this week’s AAMI Kooyong Classic exhibition tournament in Melbourne.
In what Australia’s The Age newspaper calls a “cotton wool approach” to Australian Open preparation, both Juan Martin [...]

Sweaty, shirtless tennis players in January? The Australian Open must be a week away! Here are some choice shots of players getting ready for the first Major of the year.
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga will be making his 2010 debut at the this week’s Kooyong Classic exhibition, after struggling with a wrist injury over the break. Let’s hope [...]

Disappointing news: Jo-Wilfried Tsonga has pulled out of this week’s Capitala World Tennis Championships exhibition in Abu Dhabi, which also headlines Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. The No. 1 Frenchman is also nixing the ATP 250 tournament in Doha. This leaves the Kooyong exo (January 13- 16) as his only scheduled warm up prior to [...]

Whenever I get excited for quarterfinals day, the matches never live up to my expectations. Friday at the Paris Masters was no exception. I was pulling for either a Nadal vs. Soderling grudge match in the semis or a chance for Tsonga to defend his title. Instead we get Novak Djokovic out-scrapping the Sod and [...]

Nikolay Davydenko beat Rafael Nadal 7-6 (3), 6-3 in the final of the Shanghai Masters on Sunday.  This is Davydenko’s fourth title of the season and his third career Masters title. Watching him hit those crisp ground strokes and perform his soft-shoe scamper around the court, I remembered: I like watching Kolya play. [...]