Worthwhile developments and especially newsworthy scores after a packed day of action at Melbourne Park:
FIVE-SET THRILLERS ABOUND
The losses of Robin Soderling and Juan Carlos Ferrero (mentioned elsewhere on this blog) weren’t the only five-setters witnessed on a rather contentious Tuesday in Australia. Other extended wars dotted the landscape on the blue plexicushion courts of tennis’s [...]

American female tennis players have a way of winning on native soil. Australian and British girls don’t get many chances to wow the home crowd in Melbourne or suburban London. As for the females of France, the comforts of home just aren’t comfortable enough, and never seem to be sufficient on any day, in any time or [...]

Serena Williams has an air of joie de vie about her. Some fans interpret that as brash cockiness, but those fans do not understand Serena Williams. In the finals of the Australian Open, Serena laid claim to the world’s number one ranking and displayed her superlative tennis skills to the packed house as [...]

Czech tennis star and model-waiting-to happen, Lucie Safarova looks fit and ready to challenge in Australian Open 2009. The 5’11”, 137 pound left-hander had her A game working as she powered past veteran and 24th seeded Austrian, Sybille Bammer, in straight sets 6-0, 7-6. The 21 year old Safarova, who seemed ready to burst onto the scene [...]