These may seem like the dark days of tennis to most fans. After all, the moment Fernando Verdasco wrapped up his Davis Cup-clinching win over Jose Acasuso on Sunday afternoon in Mar del Plata, Argentina, the off-season truly began. But, tennis fans, I’ve got good news for you. The conclusion if the 2008 season is [...]

Andy Roddick has announced that fellow American Larry Stefanki will be his full-time coach on the ATP Tour, beginning in 2009. The No. 8 player in the world had been working with Jimmy Connors until March of this season. Roddick fluctuated between No. 3 and No. 12 during his time with Connors, which began just [...]

Roger Federer has 57 career singles titles to his name. He has 13 Grand Slam titles, one shy of the all-time leader Peter Sampras. But Federer is not No. 1 in the world. He held the top spot, incredibly, from the first week of February 2004 until August 2008. Now Rafael Nadal is the top-ranked [...]

In addition to the top four players at the 2009 Kooyong Classic – Roger Federer, James Blake, Stanislas Wawrinka, and Fernando Gonzalez – the bottom four will also provide plenty of excitement for the fans at next season’s first big exhibition event. Two (Marat Safin and Marcos Baghdatis) are well-known veterans who both have a [...]

The Kooyong Classic has been a staple of Australian Open tune-ups in recent history and 2009 will be no different. Eight of the best players of the world will once against descend on Kooyong Stadium in Melbourne in the days before the season’s first Grand Slam to fine-tune their games. Absent, however, is three-time defending [...]