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Tuesday, Jan 26

short balls: a uso trip for you? (or bode.)

William (not Williams) does the AO: Prince William made quite the visit to the Australian Open last week, taking in a Roger Federer match and chatting with the likes of Oracene and Serena; Serena spilled all the beans on SerenaTV. Meanwhile, Mirka might have to worry about Rog and Willy m...

Wednesday, Jan 20

short balls: the diva collection

The first three days of action are complete at the Australian Open and the tournament has provided some interesting talking points thus far. There was the Maria Sharapova upset to start. And then the Roger Federer hiccup. Serena made sure she ignited some week-one controversy because the t...

Friday, Nov 27

short balls friday

Name Game: Didn’t know that Whitney Houston and Brittany Spears play college basketball? Well, they do, at University of Colorado. And no, that isn’t the correct spelling of thee Britney Spears, but hey, pretty funny, right? Speaking of famous names, the headline Federer to Return to Br...

Tuesday, Sep 9

federer vs. murray: sightings in the stands

Plenty more: See who was at Arthur Ashe Stadium to watch Roger Federer beat Andy Murray at the 2008 US Open finals, all after the cut… Charlize Theron with Stuart Townsend (not pictured). Anne Hathaway chatting with Star Jones; ...

Thursday, Sep 4

practice makes perfect: roger federer at the 2008 us open

A quick look at the practice shirts Roger Federer’s sporting for these two weeks at the Open. Gone are the Beijing 2008 tees (his campaign sorta fell flat, after all), replaced with a mix of old, new (from Nike’s NSW line), ...

Wednesday, Jun 18

wimbledon preview: roger federer’s racquet bag

Roger Federer may never show off a six-pack on the court — leave that to the likes of Juan Monaco, please — so he might as well settle for the next best thing: Wilson has produced a limited-edition Super Six racquet bag in his name. ...

Friday, May 9

Oh, Mirka!

Harajuku Lover: Mirka Vavrinec watches boyfriend Roger Federer beat Ivo Karlovic 7-6 (7-4), 6-3 in the third round of the Masters Series Rome. Federer next faces Radek Stepanek in the Foro Italico.

Saturday, Feb 23

short balls thursday:

2008 matches in place: Nadal and Djokovic might join the elite field at the AAMI Classic aka the Kooyong exhibition. Who the last spot'll go to is still up in the air. Confirmed are Federer, Fernando Gonzalez, Andy Roddick, Tommy Haas, Ivan Ljubicic, Andy Murray, and Marat Safin. (The Age)

short balls: serena cartoon, federer's fall, janko in the hot seat, and off-topic galore!

Federer's fall: Tennis planet does a quick write-up on David Nalbandian's amazing performance against Roger Federer, plus the Argentine's defeat of Nadal in their first match against each other. We always talk about Federer being tested as the No. 1 player. Perhaps now Nole and Nalbandia...

Friday, Feb 1

$hort ball$: roger federer edition

In the U.S., probably less than 2 percent of athletic footwear sales are tennis... K-Swiss is a bigger tennis brand in America than Nike. [Tennis] does get a lot of publicity, a lot of mention in news articles, and a lot more people watch the sport than participate in it. Branding is probably a prett...

Sunday, Jan 20

roger’s aussie open day wear

More fashion: Top seed Roger Federer and Nike don’t deviate too much from the black and blue they used during the 2007 US Open. (Why fix what ain’t broke, right?) For Roger’s 2008 Aussie Open day wear, the colorway is New Blue, ...

Wednesday, Jan 16

serena in a bikini, sharapova's fashion school plans, all the ATPers love Roger, etc.

Grand Slam (surface) showdown: Take a look at these New Balance CT470 Grand Slams. The two colorways, blue and green, are might as well have been named Plexicushion and Rebound Ace! Available at Hanon Shop for around $90 a pop. (via Hypebeast)

Friday, Jan 11

short balls: darren rovell's clothing sponsor rankings, finding the right shoe, magazine coverage, and a new (off-topic)

Cinderella still without shoe: Lady Hooligan Kat continues her quest for the perfect tennis shoe. Now off her list is Venus‘ EleVen line. Anna and Roger… again: And the latest issue New York Look revisits Anna Wintour’s obsession with Roger Federer. NYL is a hardcore fashion bible publishe...

Friday, Dec 14

short balls: your top five, serena's toilet paper, 2008 'players to watch', etc.

Crazy year for sports: I don’t know about you, but I feel a little better about tennis’ name being tarnished by cocaine and match-fixing this year, if only because it’s not anomalous: with Michael Vick’s dog fighting, Tim Donaghy’s scheming, and George J. Mitchell’s steroid report, tenn...

Wednesday, Dec 5

short balls wednesday

Clay: We always gripe about how rain wreaks havoc on tennis play, but no one ever talks about what drought can do to clay courts. Global warming: you win again! (The Age) Tennis as an individual sport: Reason #25 that I’m okay not being on a team: If I really need to go, I can always retire from a m...

Tuesday, Nov 27

short balls: mcenroe and bryan brothers get davis cup spotlight, etc.

Exhibition ecstasy: The folks at Tennis Channel will air a bunch of exhibitions in their entirety (and for free) through the end of 2007. The schedule is as follows: Monday, Dec. 3, Rafael Nadal vs. Richard Gasquet (first U.S. showing); Tue., Dec. 4, Sampras vs. Federer No. 1; Wed., Dec. 5, Sampras vs. F...

Thursday, Nov 8

fashion: more on santoro's striped shirt, adidas dragon shoes, felt watches, etc.

Dragon design: Shoemaker adidas plans to cash in on the Tennis Masters Cup (TMC) Shanghai buzz by releasing a limited edition Barricade IV Men’s shoe. A gold dragon runs from the heel across the lateral side of the shoes (which come in both red/gold and black/gold colorways); the eyelets,...

Thursday, Oct 25

short balls: masha the editor and producer, what's in venus' fridge?, etc.

A piece of the publicity pie?: Former pro David Wheaton (now a Godcaster) thinks that our Federer-filled tennis days are boring compared to the late 80s/early 90s — when Lendl, McEnroe, Connors, Becker, Edberg came up against the American upstarts (Agassi, Sampras, Courier, Chang, an...