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, [...]

Picspam: Homecoming and the “Clay Court Specialist”.

The US Open champs return home heros. Yay for Belgium and Argentina.
I feel unjustifiably denied. 
 

 

 
Image via Eduardo Puppo
 
Meanwhile, instead of curling up on his couch and sobbing through a marathon of Patrick Swayze exploits on Dirty Dancing, “clay court specialist” Roger Federer is practicing in Italy just two days after losing at the US Open.
What [...]

USO FRAZZLE: Dear Tennis Gods, please let this be the winning pair. kthxbye.

Not that Federer and Kim chatting in a corridor isn’t full of total win in itself. 
 

 
 
Will Roger and Clijsters be the first mother and father pair to win the US Open? 
Or will del Potro be the “Chosen Juan”?
[Yup, you bet it took me my entire life to come up with that line.]
 

USO Day 14: the Wildest Card Ever.

 
Kimmaculate, Kimpressive, Kimpossible.
Kim Clijsters beat Caroline Wozniacki 75 63 to take her second slam title – something that I didn’t think would ever happen. I expected Kim to do well, to get into the top 10 on her comeback, but to win a slam in her third tournament back? 
 

 
Despite my praises of Clijsters’s newfound [...]

USO Day 13: Back to Bedlam.

It rained cats and dogs over Flushing Meadows today as the tennis world waited around for some actual tennis action and complained about the lack of a roof. And when we finally got to see some tennis, it was blissful bedlam. 
 
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Conscious of the fact that the way the match ended overshadowed the [...]

Picket Fence Vid: You can’t spell ‘dynasty’ without ‘nasty’.

More on this later, right now, suffice to let you review the drama:

USO Day 9: Time to “bring it”.

Time flies when you’re having fun. We’re past the two thirds mark of a slam, well and truly into the make-or-break end of things. The round of 16 is always a round of carnage where the dark horses of the tournament rear their shiny heads to make a statement.
This means only one thing: it’s time [...]

USO Day 7: Tears and Fears.

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As bummed as I am about Venus getting booted out so early in the tournament, I must admit Kim got to me with her sincere reactions to the 6-0 0-6 6-4 victory. 
How can you not want to reserve your seat on the Comeback Train after this? 
 
Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images
 
Tennis-wise, it wasn’t fantastic until [...]

USO Day 5: Stirred by not shaken.

Who woulda thought that Andy Murray would be the first top 10 seed to lose a set this tournament en route to his 6-2, 3-6, 6-0, 6-2 win over Capdeville? 
Rafael Nadal also had a minor hiccup against Kiefer, dropping the second set to win 6-0 3-6 6-3 6-4. Apart from a slight concentration lapse in [...]