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 [...]