Passing shots

Take a break and put together a jigsaw puzzle.

Or, if music is more to your liking, take a look (and listen) to the tennis-and-music videos compiled by Courtney Nguyen, inspired by all of Redfoo's recent Vika-love. Bear in mind that--once you've re-visited the insane combination of Lil Wayne and Elena Dementieva--it's all really bad. You may ask yourself, "Why aren't the Bryan Brothers Real Housewives instead of tennis players?" (You may ask yourself, "My god, what have I done?!") And to go even farther back, I remind you, readers, that Elton John's song, "Philadelphia Freedom," was written by John and Bernie Taupin as a favor for Billie Jean King.




Julia Goerges is the latest Rado brand ambassador.

Tennis X puts the WTA Doubles Championships in the trunk this week, and the good news is--starting in 2013, there will be eight teams playing and not four. Sounds better to me.

Daniela Hantuchova is blogging this week from Sofia.

Tournament of Champions play begins tomorrow in Sofia. Here are the round-robin groups:

GROUP SERKIKA
Caroline Wozniacki
Roberta Vinci
Hsieh Su-Wei
Daniela Hantuchova

GROUP SREDETS
Nadia Petrova
Maria Kirilenko
Zheng Jie
Tsvetana Pironkova