The first real full day of tennis brought the following:
- A feverish Rafael Nadal made himself feel better by serving a bagel to Karol Beck in his first round match at Doha
- Earlier, Roger Federer performed another tweener to delighted audiences who pretended that he hadn’t done it before. It’s still impressive that he can seemingly do that at will.
- Fernando Verdasco and his new racket are out in Brisbane. If he wants to know how successful a player can be when they switch sticks in mid-career, he can ask Ivan Lubijic.
- Sam Stosur-bounced. Dinara Safina-bounced (no surprise). Marin Cilic-bounced (the surprise was in who did the bouncing-Kei Nishikori. Remember him?).
- Bernard Tomic put his wildcard hopes for the Aussie Open in further jeopardy by losing to Florian Mayer.
- The U.S. continues to roll in Hopman Cup. I smell a hot and crackling match up with Serbia who is also undefeated. The pairing of Novak Djokovic and Ana Ivanovic is just too cute for words.
