Losing the shirt.

Vienna Saturday highlights.

Basel draw.

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How should the former greats respond to Agassi?

What punishment will fit the crime for Agassi?

How long will Delpo’s honeymoon last?

There’s a clear time capsule that you are allowed after you win your first Slam to gloat and celebrate over. But the transition of that event being such a blessing to a curse happens overnight once you turn that corner.

Sampras endured it for two and half years, Roddick must have thought at least once what it would have been like if he had not won that US Open and Djokovic is still reeling from it.

The bump you get after your first Slam in the locker room is addictive. The wearing off of that potion is painful and humiliating.

So is the next Australian Open the one for Delpo? After all, it’s a hard court and the closest Slam in many respects to the one he won.

Or winning over Federer, specially at Basel, the deal for Delpo now to solidify that five set win? If it is and he wants to be just a handful of jokers to own a winning record against Federer, he has very little time.

The age difference of seven years will start to take away the juice from that stat very soon. The dynamic may even start to turn on Delpo if it reaches a point where it becomes a no win situation like Federer’s been in against Nadal many times.

Ideally Delpo would like to win the next Slam after going through Federer irrespective of the round, but it appears, unlike Murray, he may be more content with winning his next major instead of proving anything against an aging Federer now.

Given the drought almost everyone has had in the majors since the two-headed monster took over the game and Djokovic’s experience, Delpo will still be OK if he wins just one Slam next season.

However, until he gets his next one, there will be that uneasiness in his game given the benchmarks former greats have established on the pattern a decorated tennis career usually follows on the way to promised land.

The other player Delpo may be concerned about today, other than Federer, has to be Cilic. There are just too many similarities to let that one pass from age to height to whatever. Is that the new rivalry brewing today? Maybe.

Nadal has been more or less spanked out of recognition by Delpo, Djokovic’s recent success is more out of default and Murray is still to shine on the big stage – not to mention that none of them own the number 66.

I feel Delpo appears to think that he has already achieved more than he expected for this season releasing that complacent beast to blunt his progress until that one-Slam pang rises to bite.

Federer to resume on Nov 2.

The opening ceremony will begin at 17.30 hours and will be followed by Roger Federer’s opening match at 18.30 hours (local time).

Big names at Basel.

Federer.

Djokovic.

Del Potro.

Gonzalez.

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Stepanek.

Haas.

Ljubicic.

Gasquet.

Karlovic.

Isner.

Missing from the entry list is Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (ATP 7), who had had a long-standing contract to enter the event. A tax agreement in effect at his place of residence in the Canton of Vaud prohibits the French player from taking part in the Davidoff Swiss Indoors.

Agassi cannot freaking be the only one.

I mean, maybe others don’t have it that bad, but there’s definitely at least one juicy stick in there waiting for that book deal, don’t you think?

With some, most of it is already out of the bag, eliminating the windfall Agassi is expecting with this one.

Whatever is Agassi’s ‘real’ motivation on coming out with this startling revelation, he needs to write another book on it to complete the cycle now. We can’t be just left hanging now.

Why did you come out with this and why now and not when you were about to die? And this BS about ‘it will benefit others’ will only work with Steffi when she is high. You are not fooling anyone with that crap.

Can this make others to step forward and unload too?

Connors has to be the next guy to raise his hand, don’t you think? Now that we know how Agassi was able to extend his career and win Slams past age 29, isn’t Connors’s longevity and 109 titles the logical progression for this truck?

Well, we already know the problem. We just need to know specifically what it was: Steroids, weed, crack, homemade concoction, liquor, beer………

And Borg has that confession to make about the suicide and why he chose underwear, of all the freaking garments, to be in business with.

Lendl has to explain his obsession with a son and Wimbledon.

Kevin James at his best.

Cartoons of the Week.

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Photos.

Sex morphing in progress!!!!!!!!!!

Happy birthday to Virender – Oct 31st.