I was looking for old tennis photos online, and I ran into these pictures taken of the nine guys (including the alternate) who descended upon Houston for the Tennis Masters Cup in 2004. The Argentines: Guillermo Canas and Gaston Gaudio The boys: Andy Roddick and Guillermo Coria The daddies (DILFs?): Lleyton Hewitt and Tim Henman […]
the perils of round robin
Humility at the top For as many perks allowed by reaching the year-end top eight of men’s tennis — the glory, the attention, the serious cash, not to mention those crazy year-ending suits — participating in the Tennis Masters Cup (Shanghai) also has a potential downside: losing multiple matches in a week. In fact, the […]
short balls: serena bananas over her 'berry, loving the aussie women, ncaa tennis, etc.
Serena goes bananas over ‘berry: Serena Williams blogged so dramatically about losing her Blackberry in Paris (realizing its disappearance while shopping at Fendi, no less) that Down The Line! thinks she’s just lost her marbles. Coria’s quiet return: The Argentine accepted a wild card into a tourney this week, and he crashed out in the […]
short balls thursday
Bits and pieces from the web: Nadal receives praise, Coria cries foul, Kournikova throws a party, etc.