Doha: Fortune favours the glamour girls.

If you had asked me to pick the semifinalists at the beginning of the week, I would not have picked Venus, Serena, Wozniacki and JJ.
You see – the Tennis Gods aren’t usually this kind to me, but somehow, they’ve given me my dream match-ups. I officially fear for karma next week in Basel. 
 

 
With Caroline Wozniacki [...]

Doha: Not with a bang but a whimper.

 
So it ends like this. There will be no final shootout for the top spot between Serena and Safina. Dina made life easier for all of us by quitting her opening match against JJ after 13 minutes, citing a a lower back injury.
“My body just gave up, and I couldn’t handle the pain anymore.”
Back pains are a [...]

Doha: The Bland and the Beautiful.

Weary players, half empty stadiums – must be the WTA year-end championships. 
I’m starting to worry about Venus Williams. How many times this year have we seen her win the first set, braincramp in the second, and completely lose control over her game in the third?
And the annoying part is, she could – and should – [...]

Picspam: Catwoman and the Reject Bridesmaids of the WTA

Is it time for Doha already? The WTA year-end championships gets underway this week over in Woop Woop, as the players glammed for the draw ceremony. 
By “glammed up”, I mean they all went through their gloryboxes and practiced the aisle walk.
 

 

 
In times like these, I miss having Maria Sharapova in the top 8. She can [...]

The Week In-Between: Seeing Doubles.

Marat lost to Baby-Marat. I’m sorry, it was my fault. I shouldn’t have paid any attention to him. I’ll look away now. 
By the way, please tell me we still have Paris? 
Okay, looking away now. No peeking.
 
In better news, up your glitter supplies for Doha as JJ secures the final spot to make up the top [...]

The Week In-Between: Yeah Right.

Caroline Wozniacki retired against Kremer 75 50. The wondrous thing about it all is that she was covering the court like water but limping in between points.
 

 
Either 25 tournaments a year really is too much for the 19-year-old to handle, or someone decided that instead of pulling out of Luxembourg altogether, she’ll turn up, [...]

Picket Fence Vid: Is her last name Win?

Sometimes I think it would do wonders for her popularity if Maria was harmless, dumb and sweet.
But as it turns out, Sharpie’s sharp, cynical and made of bucketloads of win. FLOVE.
 

 
Marry me.

Picspam: Desperate times…

You know times are dark if I’m picspamming about Nole playing golf in Beijing…
 

 
Or perving Rafa’s presscon facial massages …
 

 
Temptations. They are everywhere. 
For the first time in my life, I can safely say that Andy Roddick looked adorkable at the Beijing Airport. 
That freaks me out.
 

 

Tokyo: Anti-Climax.

There was a sense of symmetry in Tokyo today, as Maria Sharapova won her first title since coming back from shoulder surgery at the same place where she won her first tour title as a teenager.
Anti-climatically, the win came by way of JJ’s retirement, down 2-5 in the first set, citing a wrist injury. But [...]

Tokyo: It’s ON.

Despite witnessing the WTA shithouse earlier in the tournament, I got the final I wanted.
Glitter Queen v Masha Fierce. It is ON.
 

Photo by Koji Watanabe/Getty Images
 
Although, given their respective semifinals, the match is actually a lot less exciting than it looks on paper.
After licking my lips at the juicy semifinal match-ups, they both turned out [...]