Learning our lesson from Saturday’s standing room only Roddick/Blake vs. Murray/Hutchins doubles match, we camped out early on Stadium 2 on Sunday to catch wild card entrants Rafael Nadal/Marc Lopez vs. the third-seeded doubles team of Lukas Dlouhy/Leander Paes.  The wild cards won: 6-4, 3-6, 10-6. The result made me pity the doubles specialists of [...]

It’s our last installment of Tennis Babes of Indian Wells (at least with our own photos). Here are some shots of Maria Sharapova, Gisela Dulko, Victoria Azarenka and a U.T.B. Please help us identify this Unidentified Tennis Babe!

I thought I was witnessing the most awkward part of Day Three at Indian Wells when Maria Sharapova went down 1-5 in the first set to Vera Dushevina on Stadium 2. The crowd was groaning and wincing as she hit serve after serve into the bottom of the net. But then I heard a collective [...]

Did they mean “Tennis Babes or Tennis Babies ?” you may ask, after seeing Victoria Azarenka in a diaper. We’ll leave it to you to decide. Check out our shots of Zheng Jie, Alize Cornet, Gisela Dulko, Jelena Jankovic, Victoria Azarenka and Nadia Petrova. (Tennis Babe perverts should right click on the images for supa-dupa [...]

Photo by REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado (CHILE SPORT TENNIS) via Daylife Gisela Dulko and Maria Sharapova caused quite a frenzy (and some controversey) when they took to Centre Court this year in what the London Times called a “Battle of the Babes” and others called good looks-ism.  The two WTA beauties are cashing in on the attention [...]

Oh, dang! Maria Sharapova was kicked out of SW19 today- going out in the second round to feisty Gisela Dulko: 6-2, 3-6, 6-4. I was rooting for her when she was saving match points in that final game, but she just couldn’t pull it off. Too bad. Afterwards, Maria was asked a Dumb Press Conference [...]

ROME MASTERS: I have to say, I’m thrilled we have some qualifiers in the last eight this weekend in Rome. I’m getting a little tired of the same old top guys making it. That said, five of the six top seeds are playing the quarters on Friday. Here’s the quarterfinal run down (stats from the [...]

Jelena Jankovic is putting out an APB for her tennis game after being kicked out of the second round for the second tournament in a row. Her latest loss came in Miami against Gisela Dulko after midnight on Sunday morning. The 6-4, 7-6 (5) scoreline is especially disappointing, considering Jelena was up 5-2 in the [...]

In case you didn’t catch this at Down the Line a couple days ago, I’m re-posting my Indian Wells practice court report here. (Can you tell I’m missing hanging out in the desert – boo hoo!) The highlight of my visit to Indian Wells (a.k.a. the BNP Paribas Open) this weekend was hanging out at [...]

Even with the no-shows (Williams sisters) and early upsets (Jankovic, Dementieva), GTT still managed to catch plenty of tennis babes on the grounds of this year’s BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells. Enjoy! Hantuchova is FreakyFritter’s favorite. . . . . .as is Maria Kirilenko . . .and he likes Dulko, too! [flv:http://www.gototennisblog.com/wp-content/uploads/videos/kirilenko_tsonga_warmup.flv http://www.gototennisblog.com/wp-content/uploads/kirilenko_tsonga_warmup.jpg 525 [...]

TEAM USA WINS IN FIVE! The rookies hold their own in a nail-biter Fed Cup tie.