Federer ties Jimmy Connors with five ATP World Tour Championships. Only Pete Sampras has more with six. Going into the 2009 Barclays ATP World Tour Finals, Federer was in a tight battle for the Tour Championship with rival Rafael Nadal. Full Article at Huliq.com

His second round-robin victory at the season-ending showpiece in London's space-age O2 Arena means Rafael Nadal can no longer prevent the Swiss joining Pete Sampras and Jimmy Connors as the only players to finish a year as number one five times... Full Article at The Post Chronicle

Considering how much he talks up its home city, Andy Murray would have loved to play at Madison Square Garden. It may happen to him one day, for they give the old place a lick of paint and set it up for tennis now and again. Full Article at Times Online

This post got a little buried late last week. Bumping it up because want to make sure no one missed it. GO BRUINS. - N Seeing Gary Beban at the game last Saturday really brought back memories from my student years at UCLA. Full Article at Bruins Nation :: A UCLA Bruins weblog

How did Roger Federer become the greatest? He was not born in Sweden (Bjorn Borg). He was not shaped by a dominant parent (Ivan Lendl). He is not fuelled by rage (Jimmy Connors) or tortured by demons (John McEnroe). Full Article at Times Online

Match points wiped out by an endangered player are the UXB of tennis, but I can think of, oh, five that might have a delayed fuse and produce a very welcome detonation in about two weeks time. Full Article at Peter Bodo's TennisWorld