A FREE MAN: Jelena Dokic‘s troubled father, Damir, was paroled by a Serbian court one year after his conviction for threatening the Australian ambassador. He was initially sentenced to 15 months, but the sentence was later reduced.
DIZZY SPELL: Marion Bartoli retired from her match against Peng Shuai in Charleston, saying she “was feeling really dizzy.”
ANDY’S GOLD STANDARD: Upon arriving at his hotel in Atlantic City for the Caesars Tennis Classic exo, Andy Roddick sent the following note via Twitter: “Not sure if there is a piece of furniture in my room that’s not spray painted gold…still looking.”
THE NUMBERS
8 months: Duration of ill-fated player-coach relationships between Novak Djokovic and Todd Martin, who have parted ways. Said Djokovic, “It just did not work out in the end.”
QUOTEBOOK
“For a few years now, [Rafael] Nadal‘s team has talked about ‘evolving the brand’ and presenting their man as a modest adult. (To me, that’s like presenting Lady GaGa as the embodiment of class.) In Nadal’s case, this means sleeves and more subdued colors and the like…[But] he comes off looking like a teenager whose parents have forced him to go back to his room change into something more appropriate. And practice his piano and put away his skateboard while he’s at it.” —Jon Wertheim, Sports Illustrated
“For whatever reason, some degree of energy appears to have gone from Nadal’s game over the last year. While his pounding groundstrokes remain a potent weapon, the competition at the top of men’s tennis is so ferocious that his failure to intimidate opponents with the sheer physical force of his game has given encouragement to others.” — Paul Newman, The Independent
“I want to save lives.” — Martina Navratilova on why she went public with news that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer
“It could wreck his summer, this wretched run that stretches back to the third set that January night in Melbourne when Roger Federer brought tears to his eyes in the Australian Open final.” — The Guardian’s Kevin Mitchell on the slumping Andy Murray
“There’s no room for him. There’s no gray area. He pleaded guilty. Any points and money he wins are going to be gone anyway.” — Mardy Fish on Wayne Odesnik, who was nabbed for bringing HGH into Australia
