Stanislas Wawrinka blogs about losing his driver's licence and his match in Basel

These are what Stanislas Wawrinka wrote in his blog recently in Basel.

Saturday (Oct 18, 2008)

• Drive his coach from his home town just 15 minutes north of Lausanne to Basel for the Davidoff Swiss Indoors.
• Recently lost his driver's licence for a month for driving a 'little' fast.
• Learned his lesson. There are lots of speed cameras and you'll get caught easily!
• Pheww! The tournament provides Mercedes-Benz transportation service.
• Go to the physio to do some massage.
• Go home and ask girlfriend to do the massage.
• Touristy talk about Lausanne.
• What is a blog without the Olympics gold medal topic!
• Still hoping to qualify for the Tennis Masters Cup.
• Match against Benjamin Becker. Post again tomorrow.

Sunday (Oct 19, 2008)

• Lost to Benny Becker 3-6, 7-6(5), 7-6(5).
• Losing before a home crowd that loves him when he won the gold medal.
• Need to stay positive and need a BIG result at Paris next week.
• Got a text message from a good friend. Friends are great whether you win or lose.
• Driving home midnight. Careful with the speed. 4 or 5 days at home before heading to Paris.
• No post tomorrow.

(Via ATP website)

Is Serena Williams ass-et the hottest?

In response to the photos of Serena and boyfriend Common surfing in Hawaii, she wrote in her blog:

Can u guys believe?!!! I'm back!!!

I've been so busy! But I wanted to write something real quick.

I'm in Hawaii surfing, and practicing and having fun!

What do u think of my technique?

Will I come back tonight! I promise to keep u updated!

Why do people always take pictures of my A$$??? Ughhh!

Until next time.

Well, c'mon Serena, people are not only interested in your ass, but also your sis Venus' and Rafael Nadal's.

Only I haven't found a great photo of someone staring on Nadal's nice ass yet :D (Updates: What am I talking about? We already have the most controversial photos here.)

(Via Serena William's website)

Birthdays of top 100 ATP & WTA tennis players

I've just added a list of October birthday babies on the sidebar.

From now onwards, every beginning of the month, I'll put up a list of tennis players who will be celebrating their birthday on that particular month.

Currently, I only have the database for ATP and WTA players in the top 100 rankings for men's singles, women's singles and men's doubles.

I'll update the women's doubles list very soon.

So hope you don't miss your favourite player's birthday anymore.

By the way, today is Jose Acasuco 26th birthday!

Oct 2, Cerretani, James(27)
Oct 2, Bartoli, Marion (24)
Oct 3, Meusburger, Yvonne (25)
Oct 4, Rybarikova, Magdalena (20)
Oct 6, Dushevina, Vera (22)
Oct 7, Ginepri, Robby (26)
Oct 7, Querrey, Sam (21)
Oct 8, Bolelli, Simone (23)
Oct 10, Massu, Nicolas (29)
Oct 20, Wickmayer, Yanina (19)
Oct 20, Cipolla, Flavio(25)
Oct 10, Mertinak, Michal(29)
Oct 12, Arnold Ker, Lucas(34)
Oct 15, Dementieva, Elena (27)
Oct 15, Levine, Jesse (21)
Oct 16, Kohlschreiber, Philipp (25)
Oct 19, Navarro, Ivan (27)
Oct 20, Acasuso, Jose (26)
Oct 26, Kerr, Jordan(29)

Andy Murray clinches Madrid Masters; Marcin Matkowski & Mariusz Fyrstenberg win dubs title

World no. 4 Andy Murray beat Gilles Simon of France 6-4, 7-6 (6) on Sunday to win the Mutua Madrilena Madrid Masters.

The U.S. Open finalist became the first Briton to win four titles in a season.

He will be the first Briton in the Open era since Fred Perry in 1936 to finish the year at No. 4.

“Gilles was hitting much better from behind the baseline, but I got a lot of free points from my serve,” Murray said.

“That was probably the key to my win today.”

Simon had previously won five straight three-set matches at Madrid.

“I couldn’t move like I’m used to and Andy knew it, so he tried to kill me by making me run,” said Simon, barely able to walk the step up to the microphone.

“Often I missed two easy shots, one after another. That’s why I lost today; I couldn’t focus on every point. It was too much effort for me.”

Murray beat Roger Federer in the semifinals, while Simon defeated top-ranked Rafael Nadal to reach his fourth final this year.

Their victories denied a fifth Nadal-Federer final of 2008.

I know you guys would have liked to have seen a Roger-Rafa final but you brought a great atmosphere, so thanks for coming,” Murray told the crowd at the Madrid Arena, which hosted the tournament for the final time as it moves to the newly built “Caja Magica” (Magic Box) next year.

The 23-year-old Simon is ninth in the race to qualify for the season-ending tournament—seven points behind No. 7 David Ferrer and six back of Juan Martin del Potro and the eighth and final qualifying spot.

“It won’t be easy because there are one or two tournaments left. I don’t know if I play in Lyon because right now I just want to rest,” Simon said.

In the doubles final, 7th-seeded Poles Marcin Matkowski and Mariusz Fyrstenberg won their second ATP title of the season on Sunday with a 6-4, 6-2 victory over 4th seeds Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles at the Mutua Madrilena Masters Madrid.

It is the first ATP Masters Series title for the Poles, who finished runners-up to Bob and Mike Bryan in the Madrid final last season.

In the quarterfinals this week they knocked out second seeds and Wimbledon champions Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjic and they saved three match points in their semifinal win over Jeff Coetzee and Wesley Moodie.

The Poles began the week at No. 9 in the Stanford ATP Doubles Race with 307 points, 17 points behind Marcelo Melo and Andre Sa in eighth position.

They won their first ATP title of the season at Warsaw, and have also finished runners-up at Barcelona, Bucharest and Metz; this is their seventh career team title. They now have a 33-23 match record on the season.

(Via AP, ATP official website, Images via Yahoo! Sport)