Note: Posting will be spotty this week as I finish up a big non-tennis related project (What the heck am I doing wasting my time on non-tennis related projects, you ask? Good question.) But I wanted to play a little catch-up since there are so many interesting things going on during this supposedly sleepy part [...]

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The WTA craze for early round upsets continues in Tokyo, where Dinara Safina, Venus Williams and Svetlana Kuznetsova were all kicked out by qualifiers in the second round of the Toray Pan Pacific Open.
Dinara Safina (#1)  lost to Chang Kai-Chen (#132): 6-7(5), 6-4, 5-7  despite being up 5-3 in the final [...]

The Day 2 story of the US Open: Dinara Safina’s fugly win against the #167 ranked Olivia Rogowska of Australia. The No. 1 Russian was a point away from going down 0-4 in the third set before finally finding a way to win. Dinara won despite 11 double faults and 48 unforced errors. The [...]

Ana Ivanovic and Caroline Wozniacki went retro in Toronto, staging a game of street tennis to promote this weeks Rogers Cup:

Love Ana’s: “Let’s do this!”
The original bad boys:

Were the mid 90s really that long ago?

Sam Stosur took out Ana Ivanovic, 6-3, 6-2, in the third round of the LA Women’s Tennis Championships today. Stosur was the more confident player on court and used her serve as a weapon. With this victory, the Australian scored her 6th win of the season over a Top 15 ranked opponent.
“This year I’ve had [...]

Ana Ivanovic lost to Sam Stosur, 6-3, 6-2, on Thursday at the LA Women’s Tennis Championships. After the match, the always-thoughtful Ivanovic was disappointed, but still feeling positive about her first tournament back since Wimbledon:
“I really went through a lot in the last couple of months,” said Ivanovic, who could be referring to a number [...]

The LA Women’s Tennis Championships kicks off today in Carson, California, a WTA Tour Premier Level event with a solid draw that includes Dinara Safina, Ana Ivanovic, Caroline Wozniacki, Vera Zvonareva and Maria Sharapova.
The top seeds attended today’s all-access media hour, here’s some of what they had to say:
Ana Ivanovic on moving up and down [...]

Goodbye, dinky post-Wimbledon clay court tournaments! It’s time for concrete, sweltering heat and questionable hot dogs! Yes, the US Open Series is here and what better way to celebrate than with our own US Open Series promo film fest? Here’s a round up of the videos, past and present.
Andy Roddick is no one trick pony, [...]

It’s like Tennis’ Summer Break right now. Sure there’s Davis Cup, but even stalwarts like Andy Roddick and Rafael Nadal have (understandably) withdrawn. The WTA has two clay court tournaments – in Bastad and Budapest (yes, the tennis calendar is crazy) and Santoro and friends are playing on waterlogged grass in Newport, Rhode Island. But [...]

I’m not going to dwell on how frustrating it was to watch tennis today in Los Angeles. I basically had a 6 hour period where, thanks to time zones and match “embargoes,” there was no live tennis on t.v. – on the biggest tennis day of the year. Makes sense, right? Moving on: [...]

Sorry this is a little late – the traditional Wimbledon day of rest has made me lazy! Here’s my wrap for Wimbledon’s first Saturday.
On the men’s side, we had a slug fest between Andy Roddick and Jurgen “Tuna” Melzer (annoyingly showed on tape delay here on the West Coast) and a love fest between Andy [...]

Andy Murray vs. Robert Kendrick was my match of the tournament so far. Robbie is so awesome. He looks like a tennis club pro in some resort town backwater, the guy drinking Coronas at the bar by 3:30 p.m. and hitting on the waitresses. He’s the former high school stud who was destined for [...]