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From the monthly archives: October 2010
Roger Federer, defending champ Novak Djokovic and Andy Roddick contribute to a deep field in Basel (is their a chocolate ball bonus pool?). Andy Murray, Robin Soderling and Fernando Verdasco headline the Valencia Open, as well as second Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka. Rafa’s sitting it out this week. Tennis Channel will begin broadcasting both tournaments on [...]
Continue Reading →Again, those who have written off the WTA this season haven’t been paying attention. Sunday saw the triumphal end (almost*) to this year’s women’s tour, with Kim Clijsters battling past World No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki in the finals of the WTA Championships in Doha: 6-3, 5-7, 6-3. This was Kim’s third year-end triumph, having won [...]
Continue Reading →Photo via SF/Glanz und Gloria YAY! Thanks to my wonderful readers, I get to check out some great new Roger Federer photos even though I’m still locked out of the forums on Roger’s new website. (I will be contacting the webmaster, as you all have suggested.) But enough about us – Roger Federer now has [...]
Continue Reading →Happy Friday folks. Here’s a silly video of Patrick Rafter pulling his version of Federer’s “William Tell” trick, in his underwear?!? WTH. Enjoy! via TennisX
Continue Reading →Elena Dementieva announced that she is retiring from tennis today from the WTA Championships in Doha. The 29-year-old is a two-time Major finalist, Olympic singles gold medalist and favorite candidate in the “best player to never win a Major” category. She broke the news on-court, after losing her final round robin match in straight sets [...]
Continue Reading →Billie Jean King, founder of the women’s professional tennis tour, was quoted in the Washington Post on Tuesday, saying that women’s tennis “is not in a great place right now.” Well, it’s in Doha. And going into Wednesday’s line up of Zvonareva vs. Azarenka, Clijsters vs. Jankovic, and Stosur vs. World No. 1 Wozniacki, I [...]
Continue Reading →ACK! Change! I’ve made fun of Roger Federer’s sorta outdated website before, but now that he’s redesigned it, I don’t know what to think. Roger’s excited about it (via a post on the new RogerFederer.com): Dear Fans I am excited to present my revamped website! I am lucky to have such a great fan following [...]
Continue Reading →Super catchy song, nice production values and awesome cameos by Novak Djokovic and Gael Monfils – this music video featuring the talents of French DJ Martin Solveig and Canadian electro pop group, Dragonette, is pretty rad. I guess the story could be a little more creative but the surprise (sorry I ruined it) appearance of [...]
Continue Reading →*UPDATE – Jewelry expert Michael O’Connor tells UsMagazine the center stone appears to be a cushion-cut diamond of approximately 7 to 8 carats on a thick, split-shank platinum band. Estimated cost, according to O’Connor: $250,000. Thank you GTT reader, Grace for the heads up. BLINGAPOVA! (Everything sounds better with -apova attached to it.) TMZ said [...]
Continue Reading →It’s the end of an interesting, bordering on bizarre year, for the WTA tour, marked by the WTA Championships year ending event in Doha. Bloggers like me are happy to note that the end of the 2010 season brings us a simpler official name for the tour – Sony Ericsson no longer the prefix. (And [...]
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