Sweeping the court

Women Who Serve offers condolences to Billie Jean King, whose mother, Betty, died on Friday. BJK was appointed to represent the USA at the winter Olympic Games, but was unable to do so because of her mother's death.

Mary Carillo did a great feature on Siberia during tonight's NBC Olympic coverage, and--aside from being just really interesting--it gave me more of a feel for Maria Sharapova's heritage.

Here's a great photo of Elena Vesnina with the Olympic torch.

Serena Williams, suffering from a back injury, has withdrawn from Doha, and has also taken her name off of the Indian Wells entry list. Victoria Azarenka has also withdrawn from Doha.

Presenting: the Domi line.

Oh, here she is again!