Oh my God, Venus got beat by a skinny Bulgarian girl with a forehand slice. What an upset! And what a shot. We tennis nerds knew Pironkova was pretty good, but beating Venus Williams 6-2, 6-3 in the quarterfinals of Wimbledon good? Well that’s one hell of a slice forehand. Wimbledon is heaven to the [...]

Photo by ZVG via Blick Martina Hinigs is engaged (again!). This time to 38-year-old lawyer Andreas Bieri (you can click here to see his resume.) The 29-year-old former No. 1 confirmed to paper Neue Luzemer Zeitung: “It’s true: Andreas has made me a marriage proposal. I was totally surprised. Of course I accepted.” Photo by [...]

Step by step the Swiss Miss trots closer to a comeback. (Click here for a piece from January, when Martina started the rumors swirling.) The AP reports that once retired in 2002/then returned in 2006/then banned from 2007 – 2009/now horse jumping and ball room dancing former tennis Champion Martina Hingis will be playing a [...]

Another season, another WTA comeback rumor! This one’s recycled: Martina Hingis is hinting she wants to return to tour. . .or is she? “I cannot imagine a life without tennis,” Martina Hingis told the Berlin Kurier newspaper on Sunday before beating Lindsay Davenport, 6-4, 6-4, in an exhibition match outside Berlin. “It’s still so much [...]

Today is Martina Hingis’s 29th birthday and the last day of her two-year drug suspension. Jon Wertheim has an interesting interview with her posted on the Sports Illustrated website. Click here to read it if you haven’t already (yes, she answers the comeback question.) Here’s what really got to me: The amount (of cocaine metabolite [...]

Roger & Mirka and Steffi & Andre may have formed the ultimate tennis love-matches, but there are many more tumultuous examples: Kim Clijsters & Lleyton Hewitt, Jimmy Connors & Chris Evert and Radek Stepanek & Martina Hingis broke off their engagements, for example, while Verdasco & Ivanovic, Pennetta & Moya and Stepanek & Vaidisova experienced [...]

“They say it themselves and it’s true, the Parisian crowd is pretty stupid. I think the French don’t like it when a Spaniard wins. Wanting someone to lose is a slightly conceited way of amusing yourself. They show the stupidity of people who think themselves superior.” That’s Uncle Toni Nadal talking to Spanish radio after [...]

Matt Cronin of tennisreporters.net found the on-court angle to the ever-complicating story of Fernando Verdasco’s love life: TUESDAY, MARCH 31 – Is Fernando Verdasco entering a black widower phase? In Miami, the Spaniard crushed Czech Radek “Black Widower I” Stepanek 6-2, 6-2 to reach the quarters, while at the same time on another court, his [...]