Hola, compadres.
Are y'all ready to take another version of Tennis's Nantucket Sleighride (scroll down past the Mountain song to see the definition) with Marat Safin and Ernests Gulbis? The match-of-the-day for me will be Fabrice Santoro vs. John Isner, although the Vodaphone Arena pairing of James Blake and Nicolas Massu, and Nicolas Kiefer vs. Juan Carlos Ferrero are pretty intriguing as well.
On the women's side, I'm interested in Vania King vs. Daniela Hantuchova and Nathalie Dechy vs. Svetlana Kuznetsova. Dechy has made a living out of being sneaky good, and I'd like to see if Kuznetsova can build on her momentum from last week.
I just posted a Robert Lansdrop tribute over at ESPN, which should be live soon. If you want the real lowdown on Lansdrop, here's a link to a piece I wrote on him a while back, which is pretty comprehensive.
Enjoy the tennis, everyone!