A sampling of the latest social-media foibles and feats from pro tennis players and observers.

Just in time for Mother's Day, Maria Sharapova recorded a touching video tribute to her mother, Yelena, in tandem with promoting her Avon cosmetics brand. Classic Maria.

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Meanwhile, after friend Andy Murray's takedown of Rafael Nadal in the Mutua Madrid Open final, Andrea Petkovic decided she'd like to have what he's having—namely marriage.

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Indeed, this may go down as the best post-match TV-camera signing of all time:

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And the news got even better for Murray. It's never bad to be lumped into a sentence with Roger Federer:

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It came to pass:

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Wooden Spoon, anyone?

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Serena Williams pulled an outright Houdini trick against Victoria Azarenka in Madrid:

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It was a 27-match winning streak, among other fantastic Serena stats, that ended at the clenched hands of one Petra Kvitova.

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But before all that, we got a real treat, "laser beams" emanating from Sharapova's visage in the direction of Caroline Garcia, her former French Open nemesis who she took out 7-5 in the third stanza in Madrid:

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Someone's got to find a way to frame things positively for American men's tennis these days, and it might as well be perennial stats ace Greg Sharko:

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Last but not least, the people's eyebrow, from Rafa:

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