Tennis Talk, Anyone?

I can't believe the news:Andre Agassi wore a hairpiece in the early 1990s! What a bombshell he dropped in his new book! (I promise I'm not being sarcastic; I really was shocked to hear that.)And speaking ...

The semifinals are now set at the WTA Year-End Championships in Doha with Serena Williams set to play Caroline Wozniacki and Venus Williams slated to go against Jelena Jankovic.But honestly, aside from Serena going undefeated, the way everyone else advanced has my head spinning! ...

The winners' lists at last week's tournaments brought a show of pearly whites to this old blogger's face. Maybe not as much as Marcos Baghdatis', but a pretty decent-sized one! A lot of players showed signs of rounding into form after dropping from their earlier highs. ...

Maybe you expected it, but if you didn't, no worries: I'll bet you're like about 95 percent of the tennis fans out there!I'm referring to Nikolay Davydenko winning one of the ATP Tour's biggest stops, the Shanghai Masters. ...

The quarters are set in Shanghai, but it seems like all the talk this week has been about injuries leading to match retirements and the big issue on players' minds: a longer offseason.Scratch that: I meant on "some" players' minds. ...

You know what? Maybe there does need to be a longer offseason for the pros (and as Freakyfrites of GoToTennis once said) for the bloggers, too!Last night, I was trying to remember when Novak Djokovic and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga played in the finals of the Australian Open. ...

Throughout the history of the WTA tour, there have always been one or two players that have separated themselves from the pack. To me, it just seems out of the place that that's not the case any more. ...

Meanwhile, over on the ATP tour …There are two tournaments going on, one in Thailand and the other in Kuala Lumpur (which HCFoo has been covering religiously!) Both events feature pretty strong fields, ...

"I don't know about the other players, but I feel like I didn't have enough time to recover after the U.S. Open. It's hard to get ready for such a big event like this and I just wish we had more time." ...

Funny thing about the week that just passed:When I was scouring the ATP and WTA sites at the beginning of it, two tournaments really intrigued me: the ATP stop in France and the WTA event in Korea. Despite ...

I FINALLY got to use that!!!I'm a little confused on my New York to Europe time differential, but we're supposed to be mere hours away from Justine Henin announcing her comeback to the WTA tour.I got the scoop from reading the Twitter updates of GoToTennis, HCFoo's Tennis Blog and On the Baseline. ....

First, I'd like to apologize for not posting something about the whole Serena Williams foot-fault debacle, which only happened eons ago, any sooner.Truth be told, my mind was quite blown by the whole situation, and it's taken me a while to get it back. ...

The comebacks!The calls!The controversies!The clothes!The champions!In all my years of Slam watching, I don't think I've seen as much drama and surprises and what-have-you packed into a two-week span as what we saw at this year's U.S. ...