Bookmarks for March 30th through April 10th

These are my links for March 30th through April 10th:

• The Fairmont Orchid, Hawaii Swings into Tennis with the Vic Braden Tennis College – The Fairmont Orchid, Hawaii-a luxury AAA Four Diamond resort located on the Big Island of Hawaii is delighted to announce a newly formed partnership with The Vic Braden Tennis College.
• EA Sports unveils cover athletes for Grand Slam Tennis – Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) announced today that tennis stars John McEnroe, Roger Federer and Serena Williams will be the North American* cover athletes for its new tennis franchise, EA SPORTSTM Grand Slam® Tennis.
• A Classic Beauty: Elena Dementieva – And this week it's time for another babe to grace the frontpage of TennisGrandstand. She won the Olympic Gold medal last year in Beijing and is one of those, in my opinion at least anyway, classic beauties. The kind of beauty that lasts a lifetime. Well a lot of women have it but this one is a classic, trust me.
• Sampras, Washington Fall in Davis Cup Play – Today, April 7, is an anniversary to forget for Pete Sampras and Mal Washington, who lost memorable Davis Cup matches ON THIS DAY IN TENNIS HISTORY. The excerpts from the April 7 chapter of my book ON THIS DAY IN TENNIS HISTORY ($19.95, New Chapter Press, www.tennishistorybook.com) is excerpted below.
• Mondays With Bob Greene: Thank God the hard court season is over – Bob Greene, the esteemed former Associated Press tennis writer, wraps up the week that was in international tennis with his “Monday’s With Bob Greene” column – a revival of his popular weekly feature at the AP. This week Bob summarizes the Sony Ericsson Open.
• Raquet-Smashing Federer – Roger Federer has a temper? The tennis world was shocked to see the Swiss maestro smash his Wilson racquet during his semifinal loss to Novak Djokovic at the Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne Friday.
• Anna Kournikova is Babetastic – And we are back with another edition of Tennistastic – The Sexy Side of Tennis. Tennis has had many divas but this diva was truely the biggest one of them all. Her name is Anna Kournikova and at the end of the 90s she was the postergirl who graced many boys and girls bedrooms.
• Another Megaphotopost of the Sony Ericsson Open – And we keep posting photos of the Sony Ericsson Open. Why? Because we gotta! We just do. I was sent this link which led to another and yet another. No wait, that's another too much. But it did send me to a site with a bunch of photos for us to use for this photopost.
• The Coast-to-Coast Double – The tennis world is in the latter stages of what tennis historian and journalist Bud Collins calls "The Coast-to-Coast Double" – the stretch that encompasses back-to-back co-ed events in Indian Wells, Calif., (the BNP Paribas Open) in California and in Key Biscayne, Fla., (the Sony Ericsson Open).
• The Sony Ericsson Open 2009 provides us with some big shocks! – The tournament of big shocks is what I would like to call the 2009 edition of the Sony Ericsson Open. Dinara Safina was ousted by none other than Samantha Stosur in straight sets 6-1, 6-4 . Ana Ivanovic is out as well, she was beaten by Hungarian Agnes Szavay in a three set match 6-4, 4-6, 6-1.