From IHT.com
SAO PAULO, Brazil: Three-time French Open champion Gustavo Kuerten is going to college.
Kuerten, a former top-ranked player who retired from the circuit last year, found out on Monday that he had won admission to attend a theater college in his hometown of Florianopolis in southern Brazil.
The Brazilian is scheduled to begin classes on Feb. [...]

From the USTA:
NEW YORK — On the same day that the United States entered into a new era of leadership with Barack Obama officially sworn in as the 44th president, another smaller partnership was created to help grow the sport of tennis.
At Gabriel’s Bar and Restaurant in Manhattan on Tuesday, Jan. 20, the USTA and [...]

 
 
HEAD Introduces New Performance Tennis Footwear
 
Kennelbach – Austria – January 2009 – HEAD is stepping up its game in the tennis footwear business. In 2009 HEAD will re-launch its line of footwear with updated technology and cosmetics for today’s youthful, aggressive and stylish tennis player. The new footwear collection will be available in February [...]

Here is some video of Rafa promoting tourism for the Balearic Islands in a deal we covered here back a few months ago.  It is a cool ad with awesome special effects and of course the Spanish Bull himself.  I think Rafa is officially in a good place.  The video is in spanish.

Prince sent us this new add for their newly hired star Gael Monfils and his new EXO3 sticks.  The video shows off his skills including “a la Sampras” slam dunk overhead.  If only the guy could get a new mind.  Anyways, cool commercial and we will always love Monfils no matter how underachieving he is!

Different Name, Better Game
As you have noticed by now, The ATP Blog has now changed their name to Tennis Connected.  Along with this name we have made numerous enhancements to the site to make the site better for you our readers.  We would like to thank you for the continious support throughout our first year [...]

The ATP World tour resumes action this week, as the first major is in the books, the ATP boys will have three tournaments to choose from this week, as Chile, Croatia and Johannesburg will be host sites this week. Tennis is truly a global sport, and perhaps that could never be more exemplified this [...]

Friday January 20, 2009. Day 12 review. Nadal is sensational against Verdasco in 5-set semi-final.
12:23pm E.S.T.
One for the ages.
Top seed Rafael Nadal knew that he had his work cut out for him as he prepared to take on his good friend Fernando Verdasco on Friday night, for the right to meet Roger Federer in Sunday’s [...]

TheATPblog.com had the pleasure of conducting an exclusive question and answer session with Canadian, tennis professional Peter Polansky. The young 20-year old from Thornhill, Ontario recently qualified for his first grand slam tournament at the 2009 Australian Open. Peter who is currently ranked 210 on the ATP computer, had a great first round match with [...]

Here are some new shots of Wilson’s 2009 racket bag line up.  To satisfy the inner tree hugger in all of us, their top line is the “Eco Pro Tour” which is said to be recyclable while the other line is just the “K Pro Tour. ” Check out the shots below.

As if four tournaments was not enough last week on tour, the ATP is back with the same number of events this week. The busy Olympic year calender continues to see the summer claycourt swing continue as well the start of the U.S. Open series.  As the top players get ready for masters series action next week in Toronto, [...]

Lots to review this week as four tournaments wrapped up the second week of July.  This week proved to be a great week for 1st time ATP winners as well as players that have been struggling to recapture top form. Although players like Rafa Nadal, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic have publicly voiced their opinion [...]

Under normal circumstances the player of the month changes regularly. However this month was not a regular month and Rafael Nadal is not your regular tennis player. Rafa proved that in this years Wimbledon final by taking down 5 time defending champ Roger Federer, in a truly epic final that lasted through two rain delays and 4:48 minutes [...]

Grand slam tennis is over for the mean time and the regular tour gets rocking again this week. Because of the up coming Olympic games this week is fully loaded with action, in a rare 4 tournament week. Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and Newport all see action this week.
On to the first week review of the week and [...]