Rain held back the start of play by over four hours on Thursday at Roland Garros, with two additional interruptions after that. I think all the rain delays and tricky conditions are starting to make the players a little batty (and the city officials more open to a roof over center court.) It’s still the [...]

Roger Federer was happy with his 6-4, 6-1, 6-2 victory over Peter Luczak on Monday: “It was like a perfect match to get off the French Open campaign, really.” he said after the match. Great! Richard Gasquet played a perfect two sets against Andy Murray later in the day, but – with painful predictability – [...]

Roger Federer may be in Paris right now, but his practice session at Roland Garros had a distinctly Balkan influence. Photos posted on the Roland Garros website show Roger chatting with Ana Ivanovic and Novak Djokovic of Serbia and his practice partner on Wednesday was a reportedly healthy Ivan Ljubicic. (In some not so sunny [...]

I thought “good for her” when the 58 ranked Ana Ivanovic – who hasn’t won more than one match at a tennis tournament since making the semis in Brisbane in January – beat world No. 32 Elena Vesnina 6-1, 6-3 in the first round of Rome. I raised an eyebrow when she took out No. [...]

A day after World No. 59 Olivier Rochus took out Novak Djokovic, No. 101 ranked Mardy Fish beat defending champ Andy Murray 6-4, 6-4 on Saturday afternoon in Miami. It wasn’t even a hometown advantage for the American – Scot Andy Murray has an apartment nearby and practices at the Key Biscayne facilities. Murray’s going [...]

Hmm. Not much to say about this except that Ana Ivanovic and Novak Djokovic are two beautiful, smart and well-socialized young people. Here’s the press release: “‘Glam.Set.Match’ was an exclusive mixed doubles ‘exhibition’ match which saw a celebrity showdown featuring Mel B, Jay Sean, Novak Djokovic and Ana Ivanovic! The match was fiercely fought, but [...]

Former lovebirds Ana Ivanovic and Fernando Verdasco have cameos in these new adidas videos. Alas, they do not appear together. You know Nando’s having a great time at this party, though I suspect Ana would rather be at home with a good book and her golfer. Videos via Women’s Tennis Blog

Saturday was a very busy day at Indian Wells – the sold out day session, the overflow parking situation and the epic bathroom lines were just the start of it. It felt like the entire population of Tennis Landia was trying to get inside Stadium 2 to watch Andy Murray/Ross Hutchins vs. James Blake/Andy Roddick [...]

No, these aren’t our photos. We weren’t invited to the Indian Wells Players’ Party, sniff! And good thing we weren’t, because. . .well, we might have said something rude to Ana about her pantyhose. Let’s take a look: So far, so gorgeous, for Ana Ivanovic! And then we get to the nurse pantyhose and 80′s [...]

Ana Ivanovic and Maria Kirilenko attracted quite a crowd during their joint practice session at Indian Wells on Wednesday afternoon. We took a few snaps of this photogenic duo for your viewing enjoyment. Eyewitness report: It was windy enough out there to make the local weather report today, so I’m not going to get on [...]

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 [...]

Venus Williams beat Kim Clijsters in the final of the Billie Jean King Cup exhibition on Monday night: 6-4, 3-6, 7-5. This is Venus’s third title in just over two weeks. Yes, I know it was only a one night exhibition but the draw was tough and the no-ad scoring format required extreme concentration. Oh, [...]