It was an exciting first round weekend for the Davis Cup World Group, with eight teams advancing to the quarterfinals (setting up yet more intriguing match ups come July’s quarterfinals.)
Here’s how everything turned out:
SERBIA def. U.S.A. 3-2

The Serbs started strong, gaining the 2-0 lead on Friday in Belgrade. But Saturday served up a couple surprises [...]

I admit I had a hard time following all of the tennis action from the past week. We had the men and women in Brisbane, Roger and Rafa (and the mighty Kolya!) in Doha, Peer protests in New Zealand, an ATP tourny in India, Laura Robson making Andy Murray look good at the Hopman Cup [...]

It was love-all for tennis in 2009, with nuptials, hookups, and enough juicy rumors to keep us bloggers chattering like overworked yentas. Here’s a review of some of the year’s juiciest love matches.
TENNIS HOOKUPS:
Ana Ivanovic and her Australian golfing beau, Adam Scott, inspired this post. She’s been in Australia for over a month now to [...]

Go Stan! Everyone’s favorite “second Swiss,” Stanislas Wawrinka was married last week to his longtime girlfriend, the 34-year-old television presenter Ilham Vuilloud. The ceremony was held at the Lausanne Palace Hotel in Switzerland. If you can’t tell from the photos, Vuilloud is about seven months pregnant.

Does anyone else think that she looks a little like [...]

Czech it out! Photographer: Paul Zimmer
Tomas Berdych and Radek Stepanek took care of business on Saturday, pairing up after their epic five setters the day before to beat  Marin Cilic/Lovro Zovko in the doubles: 6-1 6-3 6-4. The Czech team is now 3-0 over the Croatians, and is guaranteed a spot in the Davis Cup [...]

Roger Federer has joined his Swiss teammates in Genova, Italy to prepare for their Davis Cup World Group playoff. The Swiss team had reportedly given him a “get out of jail free card”, given Federer played the US Open final on Monday, but Roger said in today’s presser that he is willing and able to [...]

I’m not going to dwell on how frustrating it was to watch tennis today in Los Angeles. I basically had a 6 hour period where, thanks to time zones and match “embargoes,” there was no live tennis on t.v. – on the biggest tennis day of the year. Makes sense, right? Moving on: [...]

There was loads of action at Roland Garros on Monday, with the likes of Federer, Nadal, Roddick, Venus Williams, and Sharapova all hitting the red dirt in Paris. We now have loads to talk about – fashion, new drinking games, and a contender for Dumbest Press Conference Question of the tournament. Oh, and tennis, of [...]

There’s been lots of fun and bizarre news items lately that haven’t quite warranted a full post. So I thought I’d put them all together into my second tennis goodie bag. Enjoy! (And don’t worry, it won’t rot your teeth.)
First Serena Williams is trash talking Safina as second best (click here), now she’s haranguing the [...]

We had two good match-ups in Saturday’s semifinals at the Monte Carlo Masters: Novak Djokovic vs. Stan Wawrinka and Rafael Nadal vs. Andy Murray. I was glad that Stan took a set off of Novak, but was hoping the “second Swiss” could ride his victory over Roger all the way to the finals. Nadal beat [...]

Thursday’s rainy weather made for a busy Friday at the Monte Carlo Masters, with Nadal, Murray and Ljubicic forced to double up on matches to keep things on schedule. I was lucky to catch the Davydenko vs. Murray quarterfinal (Andy beat Fabio Fognini earlier in the day) and thought it was an exciting match: two [...]

Roger Federer lost in straight sets to Stan Wawrinka (4-6, 5-7) today in heavy, wet conditions. Roger’s forehand was crap: 22 of his 31 unforced errors came off that side. And he only got 51% of his first serves in.
As Swiss daily, Blick, said in its headline: “Stan schickt Roger in die Flitterwochen!”
Don’t worry, it’s [...]