The first thing that needs to be said about Marat Safin is that 99.5 percent of human beings would love to have this enigmatic Russian’s problems. This magnetic Muscovite with movie-star looks, a body tailor-made for tennis success, and a full assortment of formidable skills won over $14 million, traveled the world, won two Major […]

Newly ordained world number 2, Novak Djokovic will hope that form holds as he battles a field of 31 including the tour’s hottest player Nikolay Davydenko in Rotterdam this week. The $1.5 million ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament kicks off its 36th championship today. Last year’s finalists, Andy Murray and Rafa Nadal, are still licking […]

Throughout his storied career, and especially over the past three years, Roger Federer possessed feet of clay in the men’s singles final of the French Open. The second-best claycourt performer in the latter half of this decade showed a manifest ability to play for championships on the terre battue of Paris, but the Swiss legend […]

An inspiring tennis player took the court on Sunday in the third round of the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami. Before lacing up his shoes and toting his equipment bag, Taylor Dent had already triumphed in a much larger sense. Yes, Dent advanced to the round of 16 and set up a meeting with the […]

The 2008 finals of the World Team Tennis championships were held in Georgia this past weekend, with Sir Elton’s team evening the series at 8-8 with a win over Billy Jean King’s team. The real winner was Elton’s AID Foundation and the Atlanta AID’s Partnership which received over $400,000 in donations. For more than 28 […]