IS THAT ALL?: According to the Seattle Weekly, the always eccentric ex-player Jeff Borowiak is in the midst of writing an autobiography that will feature stories of “his youth in tennis, of teammates smuggling hash in their racket handles across international borders and showing off photographs of their sexual exploits,” as well as “accounts of worldwide travel and musings on geopolitical conflict, the genius of Charlie Parker, and the insights of Tibetan Buddhism.”
THE SWEATY TRUTH BEHIND A-ROD’S WIMBLEDON LOSS: Andy Roddick shared the following via Twitter: “Okay so the mailman just knocked on my door and informed me that the reason I lost the Wimby final was cause I sweat a lot and don’t change my shirt enough during the course of a match and it weighs me down…If I had only known.”
SISTER SAFINA?: Despite Dinara Safina‘s recent Grand Slam humiliations, Peter Bodo credits the Russian for having “endured those terrible whippings without spiraling off into deep depression or chucking her rackets into the Thames and entering a nunnery.”
LIKE A HAWK: For someone supposedly so anti-Hawk-Eye, Roger Federer sure gets a lot of use out of the line-calling technology. According to ATP records, the Swiss No. 1 has made more than 100 more Hawk-Eye challenges than No. 2 Rafael Nadal.
THE NUMBERS
4,000 (and counting): Congratulatory messages on Roger Federer’s website following the birth of his twin daughters Charlene and Myla
1: Tennis records included in The Observer‘s list of 10 sports records that will never be broken – Margaret Court’s 62 Slam titles (24 singles, 19 doubles and 19 mixed)
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QUOTEBOOK
“Women’s tennis needs Maria Sharapova like a racket needs strings.” — Paul Newman, The Independent
