Here are the latest global headlines both tennis-centric and -inflected:
MITT QUIPS! Mitt Romney told a joke, and about Barack Obama, and it actually wasn't terrible. What's more, it drummed up Andre Agassi, as well as the PGA Tour's Phil Mickelson. Whodathunkit?
ROBBED Tennis fans can't be happy to hear that Robin Soderling, out of the game since 2011, has had recent health troubles when trying to train regularly, per a *New York Times* profile. Side note: that hair.
INSTAGLAM Eugenie Bouchard will soon contest the WTA Finals in Singapore to send her memorable 2014 season out with a bang, but first, she gets a bit revealing in a high-rise pool. Instagram's new slogan might as well be "Unlike Facebook, we'll never be for your grandmother."
LUCKY Wouldn't you just love to be a fly on the wall when Serena Williams and Victoria Azarenka attend a Pharrell concert together in Paris?
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