Passing shots

Lang Whitaker, writing for The New York Times, takes a look at tennis video games.

As of today, Maria Sharapova is ranked number 2 in the world. Victoria Azarenka has moved to the number 3 spot, and U.S. Open champion Sam Stosur is now number 7 in the world.

In doubles, Liezel Huber has moved back to the number 1 ranking.

2nd seed Bojana Jovanovski was upset today in the first round of play in Tashkent. Jovanovski lost in straight sets to Sorana Cirstea.

Steve Flink writes about the rise of Samantha Stosur.

Stosur, by the way, had to use three alarm clocks to wake up this morning so she could get to all of her news media appearances.

Want a tennis lesson with Kim Clijsters? You have until September 30 to participate in the contest.