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Mondays With Bob Greene: For me Roger is the greatest player ever who played the tennis game

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 Aegon International and the Ordina Open.

Mondays with Bob Greene: Five Straight for Rafa

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 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters and the Family Circle Cup.

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.

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.

Mondays With Bob Greene: I still have that craving

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.

Meet The Parents

Roger Federer and girlfriend Mirka Vavrinec announced this month that they will become parents for the first time later this year. Swiss tennis journalist Rene Stauffer details in his book THE ROGER FEDERER STORY, QUEST FOR PERFECTION ($24.95, New Chapter Press, www.rogerfedererbook.com) how the relationship between the two came into being at the 2000 Olympic Games.

Maria Sharapova and Eliza Dushku attending the Miami Sony Ericsson Party

Even though Maria Sharapova is not competing in the Sony Ericsson Open she still shows up at the Kick Off Party in Miami.  Her shoulder is still bothering her too much to play. She did try to compete at the BNP Paribas Open in doubles alongside fellow countrywoman Elena Dementieva.  It wasn’t much of a [...]

Maria Kirilenko is pretty in purple part II

I have been talking things over with the Chief Editor of TennisGrandstand Manfred Wenas. He told me that a lot of you people loved the “Maria Kirilenko is pretty in purple” post he posted many many moons ago. He also informed me of the fact that the photos of his post don’t work properly anymore and that he couldn’t find the hi res images anymore on the net. So I went out and searched on every corner of the internet and found them again.

Mondays With Bob Greene: The whole week Amelie was playing very solid

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 ABN Amro World Tennis tournament and the Open Gaz de France.

Mondays With Bob Greene: Roger, sorry for today

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 second week of the Australian Open.