The big news out of the US Open this Friday? Andy Murray and Rafael Nadal both needed four sets to get through to the third round. They both lost their second sets – Murray beating Paul Capdeville: 6-2, 3-6, 6-0, 6-2 and Nadal beating Nicolas Keifer: 6-0, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4.
Capdeville is currently ranked 82 in [...]

We enjoyed a very busy (and photogenic) Day 4 at the US Open on Thursday, catching the Venus and Serena playing doubles, Shahar Peer beating down Carla Suarez Navarro, Sabine Lisicki rolling an ankle after losing her match, and Dinara Safina battling though as always. Here are some of the photos we took along the [...]

Photos from Wednesday’s Day Session at the LA Women’s Tennis Championships.
Interesting results so far:
Safina def. Hantuchova: 6-2, 6-4
Zheng def. Vesnina: 6-4, 4-6, 6-0
Stosur def. Kirilenko: 6-2, 6-4
Chakvetadze def. Kleybanova: 6-3, 3-6, 6-1
A. Radwanska def. Sugiyama: 6-2, 6-1
U. Radwanska def. Cibulkova: 6-4, 6-7(6), 6-4
Li def Wozniak: 4-6. 2-6, 6-3
Petrova def. Peer: 6-4, 2-6, 6-3
Pennetta def Vandewegh [...]

The WTA side of the Madrid Open won’t be televised in the States until the weekend, so I thought I’d post some highlights here. Tuesday’s biggest upset was the newly minted World No. 3, Venus Williams, going down to Alisa “jerky head” Kleybanova in three sets. Here are the highlights:

In the day session, Wozniacki [...]

This one is for the guys. Hello magazine did a photoshoot with Daniela Hantuchova, while she was in Miami for the Sony Ericsson Open, at the Four Seasons Hotel.
Daniela Hantuchova was also featured in this years Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit Issue along side Maria Kirilenko + Tatiana Golovin.
Photographer: Chris Bott

Besides the golfing, dance-offs and awards ceremonies, there is some tennis being played at the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami! The top seeds join in second round action today, with Federer, Djokovic, Dementieva, Ivanovic, Roddick and Tsonga headlining (and Nadal playing doubles with Marc Lopez) but we’ve already had some first rounders worth mentioning.

Eight American [...]

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 the [...]

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!
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Here’s Maria doing her [...]

Check out the photo galleries and pick your fave. (Where’s Marat???)

Features Ana Ivanovic and Daneila Hantuchova