Stanislas Wawrinka has hired coach Peter Lundgren, reports AftonBladet via TENNIS.com Peter Lundgren on the new pairing: “When I asked what he wanted help with, he said he wants to return to the Top 10. It’s what you want to hear as a coach. “I’m going to try to get Stan to become more aggressive.” [...]

The big upset that wasn’t: defending champion Svetlana Kuznetsova lost on Friday to Maria Kirilenko: 3-6, 6-2, 4-6. Sveta sounded about as surprised by the result as the rest of us were: Q. Obviously you must be very disappointed. How does it feel to lose your title here? SVETLANA KUZNETSOVA: I have it from last [...]

Roger Federer beat countryman Stanislas Wawrinka in a relatively easy 6-3, 6-1 match on Thursday night in Madrid. I usually roll my eyes at all the “Roger sends a message to the rest of the field” story lines that sprout up after he wins a match easily – but this video set me straight: It [...]

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 [...]

Sorry, everyone, off-court activities here at GTT this weekend delayed my weekend winners post. But I couldn’t let another day go by without congratulating this motley crew. Sam Querrey won the battle against dope-tainted Wayne Odesnik in the Houston semis, but he lost the war to Juan Ignacio Chela, who beat the American 5-7, 6-4, [...]

The ATP just released a bunch of new videos, so I thought we’d do a little film festival. Hopefully you’re having a slow day at work, anyway. The ATP players had a big photo shoot in Indian Wells. We learn that Evgeny Korolev is the new male model of tennis. I kind of have a [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]