Finally, Nikolay Davydenko is free! (Maybe the investigators heard my plea?) Having exhausted their leads, the ATP gives up on trying to pin the Russian for match-fixing. I hope Kolya, whose momentum got effed up by all the bad press brought on by this scandal, recovers his spot as a legitimate top-fiver on the tour. […]
men dress down for the atp calendar
TSF was lucky enough to drop by the launch party for the ATP World Tour 2009 Calendar at the W Times Square. The tour enlisted the help of a few good men — Dmitry Tursunov, Juan Monaco, Ivan Ljubicic, Paradorn Srichaphan, Paul-Henri Mathieu, Mikhail Youzhny, Tommy Haas, Marcos Bagdhatis, Tomas Berdych, Mike and Bob Bryan, […]
ATP lawsuit could remake non-team sports
Daniel Kaplan at SportsBusiness Journal is all over the lawsuit filed the organizers of the Hamburg tournament against the ATP. At the core of this debate is whether the ATP is seen as a professional league (which, under U.S. law, is allowed to collude and pool television rights, set schedules, and set terms for athlete […]
short balls: santoro wants to shine, the fall of cruella de villiers, and centre court’s ready to go!
Ask and hope you receive? Since the clock’s a-tickin’ for Fabrice Santoro, he has asked Wimbledon organizers to schedule him a match on Centre Court — an honor that’s never been bestowed on this veteran in the 13 times he’s played this grass Grand Slam (espn.com) Cruella de Villiers: It’s awesome to see the ATP’s […]
davydenko keeps his pants on
The ATP tapped our favorite albino Nikolay Davydenko to blog from this week’s tour stop in Portschach. Things we learned: his mom is an Energizer bunny, his dad is more chill, and he doesn’t like getting naked in the crazy, coed, clothing-eschewing spas of Austria. (The Russian baths, apparently, welcome the demure.) The snapshot above […]