Marat Safin's last tournament

Safin won in Paris but nearly anyone decent had the day off with a bye. Ljubicic beat Grosjean as the French began falling. Mathieu, Llodra, Santoro, Benneteau, Clement etc. At least Simon will last till the second round as he has a bye in the first.

Elena Vesnina modelling in Dubai.

A short history of drugs in tennis. Worth reading.

Moody Maria Sharapova holding hands with a boy.

Melanie Oudin slaps Serena
"I wanted to play for my country. Other people choose different things. Some people I guess didn't want to play as badly as I did."
Remember no one likes a sore loser - next time hit 'em when you win. That hurts a lot more.

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Djokovic beat Federer in Basel

Djokovic beat Federer in Basel. That’s got to hurt being beat by some upstart Serb in your hometown. Wonderful place Basel – still remember when I was there a few years ago at the time of anthrax scares and they had to stop the whole tournament because someone found a bag of white powder. Just turned out to be some spectator’s missing cocaine. Whew.

Verdasco and Davydenko still going to London it seems. One to make up the numbers and one to bet on.

Murray beat Youzhny to win Valencia and looks ready to do some damage again at the Masters Cup. Seriously where has Murray been all year?

Grats to Italy who steamrolled Team USA and a gallant Oudin. Flavia Pennetta is now officially awesome (if she wasn’t already). Let’s all blame Serena for the loss.

Rezai won Bali but I’m sure no one cares by now. She’ll make the top 30 which is an outstanding achievement for a player no one has heard of who was officially at war with her tennis federation not long ago. What’s Cornet’s ranking again?

It’s hard not to remain convinced that Wickmayer would have won Bali if she was allowed to play.

So the women are done for the year apart from those who refuse to rest and will play Challengers and those who like the moolah and will play exhibitions. Venus and Wozniacki are suiting up in Barbados on the 28th - for the fans of course.

Arantxa Rus won the 50K in Nantes, Sacha Jones who the 25K in Rock Hill, Latisha Chan won the 100K in Taipei and Brie Whitehead lost in the first round of qualifying in Phoenix 50K. Welcome back Brie.

Caroline Wozniacki in a bikini

Verdasco and Davydenko are out of Valencia together so we still don't know who is going to London. So Murray vs Youzhny for the final.

Federer chewed Chiudinelli and the Djoker got the Worm in Basel.

France take Bali as Bartoli destroys Date-Krumm and Rezai beats Martinez.

The Serena-less US Fed Cup team does as well as expected. The tough Italian Fed Cup team does as well as expected on clay.

Pete Bodo slams Wickmayer.

But none of this matters cause Woznacki has finally overcome her bikini aversion.

Yanina Wickmayer banned

Rezai is through in Bali and Rybarikova is out. Still no live coverage anywhere, but apparently it is an important tournament.

Wawrinka beat Nieminen in Basel, Djokovic beat Hernych, Korolev beat Chardy, Cilic beat Troicki and Gasquet beat Isner. Verdasco beat Tipsarevic in Valencia, Davydenko beat Monaco, Robredo beat Lopez, Murray beat Mayer and Ferrer retired.

The delightful Yanina Wickmayer may or may not be a dope cheat and forced to pull out of Bali as she has been banned by the Belgian Federation for one year. (But seems to have passed WTA and ITF drug tests.) Dushevina will replace her in Bali. Xavier Malisse has also been banned but few care about him since he has done nothing since dating Capriati and smashing the odd racquet.

The WTA asks those stupid questions we all want answered.

Yanina Wickmayer in Bali

Nieminen beat Benneteau in Basel, Djokovic beat Beck, Troicki beat Becker, Hernych beat Luczak and Chiudinelli beat Kohlschreiber. Simon beat Kunitsyn in Valencia, Monfils kept his hopes for a berth on London by beating Granollers, Mayer beat Andreev, Ferrer’s still playing, Ferrero lost, Murray beat Gimeno-Traver and Robredo beat C Rochus. Young beat Spadea in Charlottesville.

Maria Sharapova boyfriend update.

Bye bye Roland Garros?

Sabine Lisicki in Bali

The almost Champions event in Bali starts tomorrow with Shahar Peer – as long as she didn’t bring any flags with her – and a host of lesser-rans headed by Bartoli and Stosur. Only one alternate is in attendance (Dushevina). Didn’t they watch the injury procession in Doha? Let’s expect Rybarikova, Stosur, Wickmayer and Lisicki to do well.

Federer won in Basel, his home city – does he actually live there anymore? – making a comeback of sorts after a while off. The Worm beat Schuettler, and Serra beat Karlovic. Davydenko and Berdych won in Valencia

Perennial underachiever Sophie Ferguson beat hot up-and-comer Michelle Larcher De Brito in the 100K Taipei. Swiss Myriam Casanova is back and qualified for the 50K in Ismaning. Nice to see Brie Whitehead entered in Esperance – at the absolute bottom of the alternates of course (as she currently has no ranking). Laura Robson lost in 25K Nantes qualifying but is playing doubles with Rus.

The Fed Cup and the Williams sisters

Serena Williams finally wins a WTA Tournament in 2009

So Serena Williams finally wins a WTA Tournament in 2009, leaving it as late as possible. She's a great champion winning all five of her matches and leaving the other girls in a mess of injuries and excuses. Nice of Venus to make the final but she's never been close this week.

Jelena Dokic has been madly squirreling away Challenger points so that when she fails to repeat her Aus Open success her ranking won't completely fall in a heap. She won the 100K Poitiers event and gained some revenge over Arvidsson who beat her in the last final. It's not a Major quarter-final but they're adding up nicely.

Ljubicic won Lyon, Stakhovsky won St Pete and proved he's no flash in the pan Safin beater and Melzer won Vienna.

Serena lost the doubles in Doha and then pulled out of Fed Cup - assuming she really was going.

Caroline Wozniacki the new drama queen?

Serena beat Elena the (almost) Great for her third straight - underlining the real number one – victory, while Safina laments her overplaying season from the sick bay and may miss the Oz Open. Venus finally started her campaign but probably left it too late while the drama continued in the white group.

Caroline (all bets off) Wozniacki fought her way through against Zvonareva and should now progress if she can make it back onto court. Let’s assume she tanks the third match. Zvonareva immediately signified that she’s had enough and will be replaced by Agnieszka Radwanska for the second year running. Radwanska gets to play against Azarenka in a match that means nothing to her (except $100,000) as she can’t advance but Vika needs to win – especially if the Woz loses to Jankovic.

Safin’s in the quarterfinal in St Petersburg. Cilic, Lopez, Tipsarevic, Melzer and Monfils won in Vienna. Ljubicic beat Kiefer in Lyon and Tsonga beat Ollie Rochus.

Dokic won in Poitiers, as did Krajicek and qualifier Rus, but Cibulkova and Shvedova lost. Zakopalova and Strycova are in the semis in Ortisei.

Video: the Radwanska sisters do Poker Face while Wozniacki has a medical timeout