What? You Mean 'Poo' Isn't In the Dictionary?!?!

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WOZ IN A NAME?: It’s difficult enough to decipher some of the names in the WTA Tour guide. And just when you think you’ve got them all down, along comes the duo of Aleksandra Wozniak and viagra online uk

>Caroline Wozniacki to mix things up. Says Canada’s Wozniak, “It’s getting messy. Now when we book practice courts, sometimes they put us with the wrong person.”

THE FIRE (SOMETIMES) STILL BURNS: And you thought Marat Safin didn’t give a hoot anymore. But the 29-year-old, who will end his on-court career in Paris next month, expressed some displeasure with his 6-3, 7-6(4) loss to qualifier Marco Chiudinelli at the Thailand Open. Said the Russian, “I’m a little disappointed. It should have gone the other way…I may be retiring, but I still want to win. I don’t want to give away any matches. I really hate to lose.”

THE NUMBERS

4: More tournaments Frenchman Fabrice Santoro says he will play before he hangs ‘em up for good.

$1 million: Estimated take for Maria Sharapova on a three-city Sao Paulo-Santiago-Buenos Aires swing through South America in November and December.

QUOTEBOOK

“Playing scrabble on my phone and apparently ‘poo’ is not in the dictionary.” — Andy Roddick via Twitter

“With all credit to Henin and Clijsters, they weren’t gone that long. [Kimiko] Date retired after the year-end championships — in 1996. That’s a dozen years away from the Tour. It might as well be a century.” — Stephanie Myles

“At least I’m not falling asleep in the locker room.” — A jetlagged John Isner, who edged German Mischa Zverev 7-6(5), 6-4 at the Thailand Open

“I can’t travel as much as I did in the past. I have a wife [former Miss Universe Natalie Glebova], a tennis academy, a restaurant and male-medication products to take care of.” — 30-year-old Paradorn Srichaphan, who hopes to re-launch his singles career in 2010

“Safina probably yearns for the days when she was asked what it’s like to be Marat Safin‘s sister.” — ESPN’s Ravi Ubha