I’m delighted to be working this week with Andrea Nay, a fabulous photographer and writer. She’s sweating it out in Cincy right now with the WTA and will continue next week with the ATP, taking fabulous photos and gathering first hand reports from the press room and practice courts. I love her description of current [...]

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 [...]

Tuesday was Australia Day and the first day of quarterfinal action at the Australian Open. There were fireworks. Andy Murray was awesome against Rafael Nadal on Tuesday night. He out-served him, out-hit him, out-ran him and out-muscled him. He brought Rafa low: Ryan Pierse/Getty Images via Daylife Nadal was moving well at the beginning of [...]

By now, all of our favorite players have taken a turn or two on the Australian Open catwalk. And a few have already been “Auf’ed”  – though not for their tennis fashion sense. We’ll take care of the rest. . . THE WOMEN Maria Sharapova wasn’t around for very long, but her dress certainly made [...]

Fabrice Santoro came out of his month-long retirement to play the 2010 Australian Open and nab the record for playing majors over four different decades. He didn’t embarrass himself against the 14th seed and dark horse favorite, Marin Cilic, losing 5-7, 5-7, 3-6, and can return to retirement with a feather in his chapeau and [...]

A strange start to the Australian Open: rain, cold and an upset. As in really upset. Maria Sharapova went out in three sets and over three hours to Maria Kirilenko: 6-7, 6-3, 4-6. She smacked a total of 76 unforced errors on her way out of the tournament. Sharapova hasn’t lost in the first round [...]

Our last day in NYC was fairly productive – with the highlight being a three set match between Azarenka and Schiavone. Victoria joins the crew of top 20 seeds who have been booted out of the singles draw on the women’s side. Enjoy these photos of Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Juan Martin Del Potro (who advanced), [...]

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! [flv:http://www.gototennisblog.com/wp-content/uploads/videos/kirilenko_tsonga_warmup.flv http://www.gototennisblog.com/wp-content/uploads/kirilenko_tsonga_warmup.jpg 525 [...]

Venus Williams beat Frenchwoman Virginie Razzano 6-4, 6-2 today in the final of the Dubai Tennis Championships. Hurray for Venus! This win gives her her 40th title (the most of the active players) and puts her in the top five for the first time since August, 2003, which is pretty crazy considering she’s won Wimbledon [...]

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

I’d never have guessed that Maria Kirilenko v. Stephanie Dubois would have me leaping off the couch and clapping, but it did. And it was only partially because of my undocumented Canadian citizenship. If you have this 3 hour long match on your Tivo, try to catch the final set.