Justine Henin reports from her website that she will not play for the rest of the 2010 tennis season! This is a complete and total bummer for the WTA Tour. Looks like no possible “Battle of the Belgiums” at the US Open this year. Justine’s message to the world via her site: Here’s a photo [...]

Kim Clijsters beat Serena Williams 6-3, 6-2 at the Best of Belgium tennis exhibition in Brussels on Thursday. According to the exhibition website, a record tennis crowd of exactly 35,681 people showed up to watch the match – topping the previous record set in 1973 in Houston, when 30,472 spectators watched Billie Jean King defeat [...]

Justine Henin will be a no show at this year’s US Open. Via her website (I suspect someone used Google translate): Following my fall at Wimbledon tournament in 8th final, I took several medical examinations that have revealed a ligament partial fracture at the right elbow. Therefore, I regret to announce you that I can’t [...]

Upsets, routs and heroics, what a way to start the second week at Wimbledon. All singles players played their Round of 16s today, and the frantic schedule and rising heat seemed to effect everyone a little differently. Post-match, the players were asked about everything from their tennis, World Cup referees and Jennifer Capriati’s drug overdose. [...]

Just a quick wrap today: Justine Henin was defeated on the terre battue of Roland Garros for the first time since 2004 on Monday, falling in three sets to Sam Stosur: 2-6, 6-1, 4-6. “I just wanted so much that the adventure could keep going,” Justine said afterwards, though she insisted that her loss was [...]

NBC viewers – what did you think of today’s coverage? You know, squishing Sharapova vs. Henin, Petrova vs. Venus, Federer vs. Wawrinka and the Williams sisters’ doubles match into one three-hour thick, tape-delayed tennis club sandwich? (Even when there was actual live tennis going on?) It left a bad taste in my mouth, but I [...]

Andy Roddick was dismantled by Russian qualifier Teimuraz Ga”bash”vili 6-4, 6-4, 6-2 on Saturday at Roland Garros – any match where Roddick doesn’t play at least one tiebreak is a wash out. In case you don’t know too much about Teimuraz Gabashvili, here’s all you need to know about him: He’s crazy. And he doesn’t [...]

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 [...]

The truth gas they’re pumping into the Roland Garros press room seems to be working. The players were in a sharing mood on Tuesday – for the most part. Rafael Nadal made a winning debut on Court Suzanne Lenglen on Tuesday, taking out French teenager and World No. 655, Gianni Mina 6-2, 6-2, 6-2. But [...]

2010 FRENCH OPEN WOMEN’S DRAW AND PREDICTIONS The women’s draw in Paris is denser than Dementieva’s quadriceps. The fact that No. 22 seed and four-time Roland Garros champ, Justine Henin, doesn’t make the list, below, just shows how jammed the women’s tournament is (and moment of silence for two-time finalist, Kim Clijsters, who is out [...]

A quick look at what turned out to be a surprising weekend on the tennis tour: The repeat victor in Portugal this weekend wasn’t 2008 Estoril Open titlist Roger Federer. It was defending champ Albert Montanes of Spain, who took out hometown hopeful Frederico Gil, 6-2, 6-7, 7-5, just a day after beating Roger in [...]

“Beating two Williams sisters in two days is amazing. I’m very proud of myself.” So said Jelena Jankovic on Friday, after beating Serena Williams 4-6, 6-3, 7-6(5) in the Rome semifinals. She destroyed Venus Williams, 6-0, 6-1 on Thursday. Things heated up on the Roman clay, despite chilly weather conditions. Serena – the Big Kahuna, [...]