More bumps on Blake’s road: Prince and James Blake have parted sponsorship ways. The culprit? Blake couldn’t get used to the company’s racquet technology. The interesting twist: instead of keeping this mum and having Blake fulfill his contract (easily remedied by stenciling Prince’s logo on the strings of Blake’s Dunlop racquets), they decided to scrap […]
rome’s fashion highlights: davydenko and serena
Although many players were rockin’ the pink and purple this week (including Patty Schnyder and Svetlana Kuznetsova), it was Serena Williams who ran away with it, combining both colors in her Nike outfit. She even mixed it up with different accessories: a cap one day, and different colored headbands for the other two matches: (What […]
djokovic does roddick
Have you seen Andy Roddick do impersonations of McEnroe, Agassi, and even Sharapova? They’re pretty good. The Tennis Channel’s No Strings Attached did a segment on it a while back (see it on YouTube). Nole Djokovic, a showman himself, gives Roddick a taste of his own medicine at Players’ Revue in Monte Carlo last month. […]
davydenko visits lisbon aquarium
Along with being the highest ranked ATP player without a Grand Slam title, our favorite under-the-radar Russian, Nikolay Davydenko, can add another distinction to his name: the man’s a ham. I’ll forgive the cheesy poses because he went out of his way to visit the Oceanario de Lisboa while in town for the Estoril Open. […]
applause for airness
Sports clothier Airness continues with the pink theme for Nadia Petrova (this time playing on the Russian Fed Cup team vs. Spain): and they chose to mix up Nikolay Davydenko‘s on-court outfit by moving away from white (see his Indian Wells garb here and here) — and to orange — as the dominant color. “A” […]